Domus Zamittello
Valletta, Malta · 4-star Hotel
Domus Zamittello in photographs
When to go
The cheapest month we have found is January, at around USD 237 a night - -9% against what this hotel usually asks.
Where to book
- Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
- Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.
Our notes
Domus Zamittello
Domus Zamittello is a family-run boutique hotel in a 16th-century palazzo in upper Valletta, Malta, restored by the family that owns it. According to the hotel, it sits in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage city, with rooms that look onto Republic Street, Freedom Square or an internal courtyard, and some with views of the Old Royal Opera House site.
The room range runs from Deluxe Rooms and Premium Rooms to suites. The Signature Suite is a two-floor duplex with a kitchenette and a restored traditional Maltese balcony, and the Deluxe Suite has an original low vaulted ceiling and a freestanding bath. The hotel serves Mediterranean food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and has private walled gardens and a private dining room.
We rate it four stars. On TripAdvisor it scored 4.9 from 981 reviews when we read it on 12 September 2026, ranked first of 212 hotels in Valletta. Photographs: the hotel's own website.
The area
Valletta is barely 350 years old by Mediterranean standards, and it was built in one deliberate move: after the Knights of St John survived the Great Siege of 1565, Grand Master Jean de Valette laid out a fortress city on the peninsula the Ottomans had failed to take, on a strict grid designed by Francesco Laparelli so that no street would trap defenders in a dead end. It became the capital in 1571 and has stayed astonishingly dense ever since - roughly 320 individual monuments packed into half a square kilometre, which is most of why UNESCO listed the whole city in 1980 and why walking it can feel like touring one continuous palace.
Mdina, the walled hilltop town twenty minutes inland, is the older story: a fortified settlement for over 4,000 years, capital of Malta under the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs alike, and still shaped by the maze of narrow, deliberately confusing streets the Arab period laid out to slow down raiders and hold onto shade. When the Knights moved the capital down to the coast and built Valletta, Mdina emptied out and went quiet almost overnight - which is exactly how it earned the nickname it still carries, the Silent City. A handful of noble families never left, and their honey-stone palaces are the reason it is worth the trip out from the harbour: less monumental than Valletta, and considerably stranger.
What it costs through the year
| Cheapest we have seen | USD 234 ≈ €209 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 260 ≈ €232 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 346 ≈ €309 |
| Times we looked | 9 |
| Gap between the two | 43% |
| Last checked | 2026-10-29 |