Fort Rinella is a small fort with a huge cannon. The fort is on the No 3 bus route from Valletta and has attractions and reenactors present. The fort is small and not like the traditional 'castle' it is more like a gunnery emplacement.The staff were welcoming and engaged well with the public. They made me welcome. The fort was alive with reeneactors and this brought the place to life. The café on site served hot food and the toilets were clean. There is an audio-visual display on site as well as demonstrations of sword fencing.The site is not really suitable for people with a substantial physical disability because of steps down into the limestone tunnels. There was a cavalry exhibition on site which was great. There was the ability to fire rifles and cannons for a fee and this brought the place alive.Well worth a visit. Try to be there at 14:00 hours for a couple of hours.
A classic way and traditional way of crossing the city to reach us and for what you seen we hope that your really felt like going back in time. Perla is one of our best horses that helps our riders in almost every cavalry in any age. She can dress up as a Roman auxiliary light horseman to a powerful charging fighter of a full armored knight in Jousting. Thank you very much for your visit and high rating.
Thank you for your high rating, with your help our guns will fire louder and our horses will run faster.
Thanks to visitors like you that help us everyday running the fort by joining us to see or live history.
Wow, what a great time spent there. From the outside it doesn't look much but inside the shows and tour were excellent and the guides couldn't help enough !! Nice café for drinks and lunch.
I would echo the other posts re Fort Rinella.Having had a 9 year old moan about other siteseeing attractions on Malta which included knights, weapons etc for a couple of days, the omens were not great but the enthusiasm of the Fort Rinella team with their animated shows/descriptions of bayonets, sabre duelling, musketry and of course cannon through the ages was engaging and fun for all ages such that the afternoon passed with the description that it was "awesome siteseeing" having had the opportunity to fire a rifle and a cannon. A very enjoyable experience for the afternoon
Thanks to your donation and support we will be able to restore more and bigger guns next year.
In short, there aren't many places in the world you get to see a 100 ton gun and fire a canon. A reasonable donation gives you an option to fire a canon which I highly recommend. The shows and tour was excellent and the guides couldn't help enough.
The fort was more compact than we were expecting and didn't take long to walk around but we spent more time on site than we first expected, all thanks to the weaponry demonstrations. We really enjoyed learning about the different rifles and swords - the enacter leading the demonstrations had a great sense of humour but this didn't hide his knowledge and passion for the subject matter. It is well worth spending the extra time at the fort to experience the weaponry demonstrations because you can learn so much more in watching these than just reading up about the weapons in a museum.
A must do for visitors to Malta. The Staff are knowledgable, approachable, friendly and very entertaining. I can't recommend this highly enough.