The Village of Zurrieq claims for a large area of the
South Eastern part of the Island of Malta, in which
village we find a wide collection of ruins and remains
going back to the Bronze and Punic times, through the
Roman, Knights and British eras. The village in itself
is to a large extent adorned with houses and buildings
of historical value dating to the XV and XVI century.
The village of Zurrieq is surely not lacking in history,
and this can be witnessed by the numerous ruins and
remaining structures that indicate the flow of the
village through time. These indicate the various
settlements of peoples that inhabited the village area,
from the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians, Greeks to the
Romans. The remains found indicate these peoples as
ancestors to the village, yet without excluding the
possibility of other peoples, this village is rich in
ruins and remains which in future may shed new light on
its ancestors. Proof of this may be seen namely in
remains such as the Punic Tower, Xarolla Catacombs, Cart
Ruts at 'Tal-Bakkari', 'Tal-Hlantun Tower' and many
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