Wignacourt Water Tower

Interesting water tower

The Wignacourt Water Tower is 3 meters high at the circular base. It is part of the aqueduct system which brings water via gravity from the higher grounds. Created in 1615.

Interesting find!

A slice of history here, in what looks like an elaborate drinking well. It has been designed so that Horses can drink from the trough area. This tower is seriously ancient and was part of a viaduct th...

Found the history of this really interesting

On my last visit to Malta about a year ago, I looked for the Wignacourt Water Tower but sadly never found it. Transpired I was looking in the wrong area! Anyway, around a year later I did manage to lo...

centuries old water tower in Floriana, Malta

If you plug your ears and look at this Water Tower, probably the only on in Malta, you could be forgiven for believing that you've been transported by a time machine, centuries back at the reign of th...

Remains of the Wignacourt Aqueduct

When driving to Mdina we saw on the way the remains of what was a large aqueduct. The 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, which was built by the Order of Saint John to carry water from springs in Dingli ...