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Qormi

 

Qormi is the second largest town on the Islands. It is has both residential and light industrial areas, but the town's core is still characterised by alleys and narrow streets. Because of its low-lying position near Grand Harbour, Qormi played a distinct role throughout its history. At one time, parts of Valletta, Marsa and Hamrun depended on it as an administrative and parish centre. Qormi traditionally provided a workforce of stevedores for the harbour. The town became the first place where imported goods were stored. Wheat was one of the staple imports. Over the years, windmills sprung up in the town and it soon developed a thriving break-making industry. Qormi has been known as the centre of bread-making since the time of the Knights of St John. They named it `Casal Fornaro', the bakers' village, and it still is today. Modern Qormi carries on the tradition as the centre of the Islands' baking industry. The town today is divided into two parishes - St George's and St Sabastian's. St George's Parish Church, completed in 1684, is an imposing structure. Apart from the festa on the last Sunday in June, an unusual event in the parish is the Good Friday procession - a traditional affair in which participants wear Biblical costumes. The Church of St Sebastian, completed in the 1980s, is in neo-Romanesque style and carries a distinctive huge, white dome.


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