Rabat - St Catald Catacombs

Just outside the perimeter ditch of the Roman city and diagonally opposite the parish church is the tiny 18th century Church of St Catald, built on the site of one said to date back to A.D. 400. Hollowed out beneath it is a small group of catacombs dating from the late second and early third centuries in what was originally a Punic burial shaft. One of the best examples of an agape table (circular table and a semicircular bench, unique to Malta) is on the left at the bottom of the stairs, and the majority are fine canopied tombs.