Dingli is a small village at the extreme end of Malta, and is quite remote 
from the centre. The distance was felt more up to ten or twenty years ago, when public transport could only reach as far as Rabat. To arrive at Dingli one had to make the journey either on foot or by means of a rough ride on a farmer's cart. Up to sixty years ago there was no telephone service for the private family. Nowadays it is considered essential for every household to have the facility of this service. It was, at the time, considered difficult to travel to other localities of Malta. Today, almost everyone feels the need of his private means of transport. If we glance far though the ages, more precisely towards the beginning of civilization in Malta, we can notice that, notwithstanding the extreme poverty which depressed the whole of Malta, Dingli had the benefit of being situated near Rabat. In fact, from olden times up to the middle ages, the centre of Malta was not Valletta but first Rabat and then Mdina. The present capital city was built from scratch only during the second half of the sixteenth century.