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ISSUE 56 • NOVEMBER 2021
SUNSETS, OWLS AND DARK SKY NIGHTS
A ‘typical’ Summer at Dwejra Tower in Gozo by Simon Wallace
It has been a very long, hot summer and the impact of both Covid and the reality of climate change is clearly visible to anyone visiting Gozo.
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dd in 152 days or so without any rain, peak daytime temperatures nudging 40 degrees, and it was obvious why our visitor numbers were perhaps lower than usual. Here at Dwejra, we changed the ways we connected with our visitors and community partners. This meant having more of an online/ social media presence, increased video, photo and mobile-friendly content, and by hosting small scale, Covid-compliant events later in the day or evenings, when temperatures were less fierce.
The magic hour One of the many things Dwejra continues to offer our visitors are amazing sunsets, so we began hiring out the tower’s roof-top space for a single group of up to six people per evening. We provide chairs and cushions and visitors bring along their own refreshments to enjoy the ‘magic hour’ and the panoramic views of Fungus Rock, the Inland Sea and Gozo’s dramatic West coast. These sessions have proved very successful at raising much needed donations and visitor feedback has been very positive. And to prove there’s nothing like a Dwejra sunset to ‘Lift You Up’ we teamed up with VisitGozo.com and Gozitan DJ Micimago who performed his aptly named video atop Sunset from inside Dwejra Tower Dwejra’s 17th century tower as the colours of sunset lit up the sky. Watch and listen at https://www.facebook.com/Micimago/ or https://www.facebook.com/VisitGozo/videos/2985654565014087
