Culture of Qrendi

streets. There are no tourist cafes in the centre of the village. However the residents are friendly and will usually give a cheery greeting to any passers-by and also might say 'il gurnata t tajba' which in English means good day. One must not forget the lovely rocky beach Wied iz-Zurrieq.

Churches and Chapels in Qrendi

On Qrendi's coastline one can find the Maqluba, an enormous karstic depression, which fell from the cliff during a storm in 1343. According to legend a small chapel at its entrance was there at the time, which must make it one of the oldest surviving Christian buildings in Malta.[citation needed]

There are seven churches and chapels in the parish, most of them constructed on the site of earlier structures. The first parish was set up in 1436, when the village was within Żurrieq's parish. Qrendi became a separate parish in 1618.

The ornate baroque Parish Church, designed by Lorenzo Gafà the architect of Mdina Cathedral, was completed in 1720