Mosta

Mosta is a town in the Northern Region of Malta, to the north-west of Valletta. In 2014, it had an estimated population of 20,241.The most famous building in Mosta is the Rotunda, a large church with the third largest unsupported dome in the world. Mosta celebrates the feast of the Assumption every 15 August, popular among both the locals and the foreigners.GeneralAs Mosta is at the centre of Malta; buses pass through Mosta on the way to Buġibba, Burmarrad, St. Paul's Bay, Qawra, Xemxija, Ċirkewwa, Mellieħa and other places in the North.The town has several legends such as the Mosta Bride (L-Għarusa tal-Mosta), and a number of historic places such as the Victoria Lines and medieval chapels.Mosta has its own scouts and girl guides, two band clubs (Nicolo' Isouard and Santa Marija), and two fireworks factories. A lot of traffic passes through Constitution Street, one of Mosta's main streets, connecting the South to the North of Malta.HistoryPre-historyMosta has been inhabited since pre-history. Dolmens at San Filep Valley, in the limits of Mosta, are primary evidence of this. Each dolmen has two rectangular standing stones and one other similar stone positioned horizontally above the other two.