The village of Kalkara developed as a small fishing community around the
sheltered inlet of Kalkara Creek. Some historians believe that the land that
today is known as Kalkara, was one of the first to be inhabited by the initial
dwellers of Malta that came from nearby island of Sicily. The idea behind this
theory is that the inlets of the Grand Harbour could have provided these
primitive emigrants with the needed shelter after having endured their long
voyage in the
