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 Azure Window
Azure Window is one of those emotive rock arches linking land and sea. It's among the most photographed features of the Gozo coast.
Behind it is the Inland sea, which looks like a peaceful lagoon, but you can swim out through a tunnel to the open sea. Non-swimmers can do the
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Fungus Rock
Fungus Rock takes its name from the fack that the Knights of St John used to collect a rare plant plant from the rock's summit.
The plant (Cynomorium coccineus) is dark brown and club-shaped,
and grows to about 18 cm in height. This parasistic plant draws nourishment from the roots of other plants.
It is native to North Afrika, and Fungus Rock is the only place in Europe that it is found.
Maltese Knights collected it for medicinal purposes. It cured dysentery and ulcers, haemostatic qualities (stopping the flow of blood) and also used to treat apoplexy and veneral diseases.
Fungus Rock is situated in Dwerja Bay, Gozo.
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Blue Grotto 
Sea caves have a special mystigue, and the colour of the Mediterranean around Malta accentuates the romance. Near the village of Zurrieg, boatmen stand by to take
visitors to half a dozen caves, of which the Blue Grotto is the best known.
Of course there's a legend; they say that sirens lived here, luring sailors to their doom.
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Islet of Filfla 
On the way down the hill from Mjarda Temples, the view it stirring. Just beyond the cliffs the Mediterranean is at its darkest blue, there is an open expanse of sea interrupted only by the islet of Filfla.
This flat-topped rock is one of three uninhabited Maltese islands. The Royal Army and the Royal Air Force used Filfla as a firing range. It's still a no-go zone for boatsmen and divers, lest they sett of unexploded bombs,
but rare two-tailed lizard are said to survive there and migratory birds make a stopover.
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