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Organisation Information<\/h2>\n
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Towns & Villages<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u0126AL QORMI<\/span><\/h1>\n

395, Triq il-Vitorja, \u0126al Qormi, QRM 2507, Malta<\/h3>\n
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\u0126al 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.<\/p>\n

Because of its low-lying position near Grand Harbour, \u0126al Qormi played a distinct role throughout its history. At one time, parts of Valletta, Marsa and \u0126amrun depended on it as an administrative and parish centre. \u0126al 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. \u0126al 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.<\/p>\n

Modern-day \u0126al 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.  The festa of St. Sebastian is celebrated every third Sunday of July also on Easter Sunday a procession held with the tradition of running with the statue of Risen Christ in various roads in the parish.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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