Balzan Hotels and Accommodation

Balzan is a small village in the centre of the Island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Originally just a tiny group of houses and farmsteads, the village has grown since the 17th century and now has around 3,400 inhabitants. There are 2 trains of thought with regard to the origin of the name of the village, one which claims it to be of Arabic origin, and the other that it was named after a Sicilian family who used to live in the area where Balzan is now situated. Close to the main square, in the oldest part of the village, the visitor will come across an area known as Three Churches Street. Actually grouped around an old cemetery cross, the churches are the Annunciation of Our Lady, St Leonard’s and Little St Roque. The latter, built during a terrible plague in 1593 and named after the patron saint of plague, is an unsophisticated building but does contain some nice detail. St Leonard’s no longer functions as a church and is instead now used as a dwelling.