The annual celebration at the medieval chapel of Ħal Millieri (Żurrieq) marking the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary will be held tomorrow when the chapel will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. followed by the blessing of the adjoining churchyards. The service will be conducted by Fr Raymond Cassar. Din l-Art Ħelwa, the volunteer heritage organisation that holds the chapel in trust, will be offering two guided tours of the site by historians Stanley Farrugia Randon at 11 a.m. and Salvator Mousù at 3.15 p.m.

The chapel of the Annunciation at Ħal Millieri is a prime historical monument of Malta’s mediaeval past. The present edifice dates to around 1450 and excavations have shown it to have been built over the site of an earlier, possibly 13th century chapel, and a much older late-Roman rural complex. It can be reached from Mqabba Road at the Żurrieq end of Blue Grotto Avenue or from Diamond Jubilee Square (Tal-Mentna) at the end of the Mqabba bypass.