2024Maltese Festa - Series VIII - Presentation Pack

The Festa is an important part of cultural heritage in Maltese villages, uniting families, local communities, and outsiders in a celebration of popular religiosity. Apart from liturgical functions, the common factors during Festa Week are the street decorations, band marches, firework displays, and lots of church bells ringing. This stamp issue is the eighth in the series. Birkirkara - Statue of Saint Anthony of PadovaGzira - Statue of Our Lady of Mount CarmelMarsa - Statue of the Queenship of Mary(Maria Regina)Paola - Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary of LourdesRabat - Statue of Our Lady of the Holy Girdle(Il-Madonna tac-Cintura)San - Statue of Our Lady of LourdesSan Lawrenz (Gozo) - Statue of Saint LawrenceSannat (Gozo) - Statue of Saint MargaretTarxien - Statue of Our Lady of Holy Doctrine (Il-Madonna tad-Duttrina)Victoria (Gozo) - Statue of Saint George