About
About this site
Zejtun.com is a local guide to the Maltese hill town of Żejtun, written by Mattew Cassar. It is a deliberately small site, slowly written, with a strong preference for accuracy over completeness and for the long view over the news cycle.
Who writes it
Mattew Cassar grew up in Żejtun and has lived in the town for most of his life. He writes zejtun.com from a flat above his grandfather’s old workshop on Triq San Girgor. Before he started this site he worked as a journalist and editor for several Maltese publications, and he continues to write occasional pieces for Maltese-language outlets.
This site exists because the guides he could find about Żejtun online were either three sentences long, copy-pasted from a single Wikipedia paragraph, or aimed at coach tourists who would never come. He wanted a guide for the kind of visitor — and the kind of resident — who actually wants to know.
Editorial stance
Local first. When this site disagrees with a guidebook, this site is right.
Accurate over comprehensive. If we don’t know something, we say so. If we do know it but the source is fragile, we say that too. We’d rather have a thinner site that’s right than a thicker site that isn’t.
Opinionated where it helps. Restaurants vary. Bus routes change. Hotel quality is uneven. We’d rather tell you what we’d actually recommend than pretend everything’s equally good.
No paid placements. We don’t take money or hospitality from any business mentioned on the site. Where a recommendation appears, it’s because we’d send our parents there. If that ever changes, this paragraph changes first.
Slow updates. This site is updated when there’s something worth updating, not on a publishing schedule. Most pages will say when they were last reviewed at the bottom.
Get in touch
Corrections, suggestions, and tip-offs all welcome — particularly from people who know the town. Email hello@zejtun.com. We try to reply to every email; we don’t always succeed.
Acknowledgements
This site stands on the shoulders of decades of work by Żejtun’s parish historians, the local council, the band clubs, the heritage trail volunteers, and the older neighbours who have answered Mattew’s increasingly specific questions for longer than he has been able to ask them politely. None of the errors are theirs.
Privacy and cookies
This site uses minimal tracking — only what’s needed to keep the site running and to understand which pages people read. It does not run advertising, sell data, or share information about visitors with third parties. Full privacy policy.