Forget Paris, this tiny town in Malta is Europe’s Culture Capital in 2018

Malta’s Valletta may be Europe’s smallest capital, but it was named Europe’s Capital of Culture for 2018. But how can this tiny town hope to compete with the Old Continent’s cultural heavyweights?

To a rousing chorus from an orange-cloaked choir and two black-clad soloists, 7,000 years of Maltese culture ripples, splashes, folds, sweeps and dazzles its way in glorious technicolor projections across the façade of one of Europe’s most spectacular Baroque cathedrals.

It’s the launch of Valletta 2018, marking Malta’s tiny UNESCO World Heritage capital’s year as European Capital of Culture (together with Leeuwarden in the Netherlands). With over 140 projects and 400 events planned, there has been, as you’d expect, plenty of local criticism, too: “Where’s the high culture?”; “Very flashy, but not enough of the real Malta”; “Why is it not more cutting-edge?”

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