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Ġgantija Temples

Ġgantija Temples

Ggantija · Giants' Tower

Neolithic (Ġgantija phase)·Maltese Temple culture·🇲🇹 Gozo, Malta

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About Ġgantija Temples

Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.

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History

How it came to be

Built
c. 3600–3200 BCE
Period
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase)
Culture
Maltese Temple culture
Purpose
Collective ritual
Excavation
Excavated
  1. c. 3600–3200 BCE

    Initial construction

  2. c. 1315 CE

    Abandonment

Location

Where it is

36.0489° N · 14.2692° E · 115 m

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