The Malta Independent 19 April 2024, Friday
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Malta’s pavilion at the Milan Expo focuses on bees and honey

Thursday, 7 May 2015, 09:28 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Malta Pavilion at the Milan Expo2015 forms part of the Bio-Mediterranean cluster together with a large number of countries from the same area such as Algeria, Albania, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia and San Marino.

In the Malta pavilion visitors can learn about the great honey tradition of Malta, a product that is not just a symbol of the sun and the sweet nature of the Maltese population but also an important ingredient of many typical plates, which the visitors can taste.

The pavilion itself reminds the visitor of a beehive and even the etymology - μέλι (honey) Μελίτη (sweet) explains in very clear terms the close relationship between Malta and honey.

In turn, this opens up to the Expo's theme - sustainability and the challenges that our planet must face in the future in the food sector.

Through various technological means, the pavilion explores the variety of Mediterranean products from the point of view of a bee, leading the visitor to get to know more about local delicacies, the feasts and the cultural traditions of an island with huge cultural heritage which one must continue to protect and enhance looking more to the future than to the past.


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