Our Location & Points Of Interest
Saint Julian’s
Located right between Malta’s business and entertainment centres, the G Hotel by JL is just a stone’s throw away from the island’s major hotspots, guaranteeing easy access to all the places you intend to visit whether you’re travelling for business or pleasure.
Within walking distance of the hotel, you’ll find the island’s famous St. George’s sandy beach and the streets of Paceville, home to Malta’s best bars, cafes, restaurants, nightclubs, and shops. Likewise within close proximity sit a number of supermarkets, banks, postal services and St Julian’s main bus terminal. The Hotel is just 2.5km away from Sliema, Malta’s main coastal resort and business centre, with easy access to use the ferry from Sliema to Valletta, Malta’s capital city.
Portomaso
The Portomaso Business Tower (often referred to by locals as simply “Portomaso”) is a high-rise office building in Malta overlooking the Portomaso Marina. The tower features a number of commercial and entertainment spaces, including a casino. The main floor is occupied by a shopping centre while the top floor of the building is a nightclub with balconies affording views of the island nation. The surrounding area has many hotels, apartments, bars and restaurants, shops and a tree-lined promenade.
Spinola Bay
Thanks to its gorgeous sunset views, Spinola Bay is a fantastic option whether you want a Seaview dinner, a swim, or to go for a long walk along its promenade, which stretches from St. Julian’s all the way to Sliema, Gzira, Ta’xbiex, and Msida, offering a series of spectacular sights such as the iconic Spinola Palace, a neo-gothic parish church with a carved clock centerpiece on its facade; Manoel Island, a tiny fortified isolotto, and Valletta, the country’s walled capital, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Balluta Bay
Balluta Bay is a bay on the northeast coast of Malta within St. Julian’s. It is a popular recreation spot used for swimming, diving, and water sports, with a triangular pjazza surrounded by cafés and shaded by Judas trees. Its skyline is dominated by the neo-gothic Carmelite Parish Church and the art nouveau Balluta Buildings, which are apartment buildings on the eastern shore, as well as a cluster of terraced townhouses in the local variant of Georgian-style architecture.
St.George’s Bay
St Georges bay is one of the most attractive sandy beaches in Malta. Located in the heart of the entertainment mecca known as Paceville, it is the location where many tourists and students like to take a dip into our clean Maltese waters.
The beach is popular both during the day and up to early hours. When it is good weather youths, especially foreign students, like to laze on the sand enjoying the beautiful weather of our islands. They socialise with many other youths coming from different countries to study English. Like Spinola Bay, St. George’s Bay is also a great spot to begin a walk along Malta’s north-eastern promenade.
Paceville
Paceville is a district in St Julian’s which is the main nightlife hub in Malta, being heavily populated with nightclubs, bars, stripclubs, pubs and restaurants. Paceville is seen as a party destination in Europe and is a popular place for locals and tourists alike.
The Old Parish Church & The Millenium Chapel
The present parish church was designed by Maltese architect Arturo Zammit and its first stone was laid in 1961. It was used for the first time in 1968 when it was still not fully built. The church welcomed Pope John Paul II on his first visit to Malta on 27 May 1990. Closer to Paceville, the Millenium Chapel is a modern church designed by Maltese architect Richard England and inaugurated in 2000. It houses a meditation garden inaugurated in May 2018 as a refuge for contemplation and tranquillity right in the heart of the entertainment Zone of Pacevile Built on the initiative and run by Fr Hilary Tagliaferro this church is run by Augustinian monks through the Millenium Chapel Foundation.
Spinola Palace
Because of fear of attacks by the Muslims, the Northern Coastal area remained undeveloped until the diminished attacks after 1565. The building of Spinola Palace, coming as it does in 1688, is to be regarded as the stepping stone for the coastal reclamation of San Ġiljan. The palace, together with the surrounding gardens, was built by Fra Paolo Raffaele Spinola for the public entertainment as stated in the inscription which one finds above the portico. The palace received several enlargements and embellishments over time, serving numerous roles over the centureies, including as a military hospital, as a shelter for the homeless, and as a museum.
The building is not open to the general public except its cellar, which houses L-Għonnella Restaurant.
Sliema
Sliema is a town located on the northeast coast of Malta in the Northern Harbour District less than 3km away from St. Julian’s. It is a major residential and commercial area and a centre for shopping, bars, dining, and café life. It is also the most densely populated town on the island. If you’re in Malta for business related reasons, then proximity to Sliema is encouraged.
Lining the Sliema coastline is a promenade known as the Sliema Front that has become the ideal spot for joggers and walkers as well as a prolific meeting place for locals during the summer season. The promenade of St. Julian’s leads to Sliema. Romantic moon strolls, barbeques and open air restaurants and cafes have made Sliema the hub of social nightlife. Sliema is also known for its numerous rocky beaches, water sports and hotels.
Sliema, which means ‘peace, comfort’, was once a quiet fishing village on the peninsula across Marsamxett Harbour from Valletta and has views of the capital city.
Sliema is considered a desirable place to live and is relatively affluent, with extremely high property prices compared to the national average. Historically, stylish villas and traditional Maltese townhouses lined the streets of Sliema. Sliema has now been ringed with modern apartment blocks, some of which are amongst the tallest buildings in Malta.
Valletta
As you walk along the promenade from St. Julians to Sliema you will start to see the cityscape of Valletta, which is located around 6km from St. Julians. Besides being a commercial and historical hub, the city is noted for its fortifications, consisting of bastions, curtains and cavaliers, along with the beauty of its Baroque palaces, gardens and churches.
The architecture of Valletta’s streets and piazzas ranges from mid-16th century Baroque to Modernism. The city is the island’s principal cultural center and has a unique collection of churches, palaces and museums and act as one of the city’s main visitor attractions. When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as “a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen,” and remarked that “Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe,” and in other letters called it “comparable to Venice and Cádiz” and “full of palaces worthy of Palladio.”
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