WATCH: Malta And Gozo Bid Farewell To Our Greatest Natural Icon

Lovin Malta ^ | March 8, 2017 | Chuck Bartalo

[Shark24]

Gozo's iconic Azure Window collapsed earlier this morning.

The natural rock formation, which had been on the verge of collapse for months, had increasingly harsher warnings against hikers climbing up it.

[Shark24]

Famous Malta Gozo arch collapses overnight. Follows the Knights of Malta upheaval and the Malta Bishops surrender on Communion. Just not a good year for Malta. Enjoy the short video of mostly "before".

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to the video in this thread, which only briefly and ineffectually shows that the entire Azure Window including the outer pillar has collapsed and is gone.

[dfwgator]

What about Windows Azure?

[JimSEA]

If you look closely, the collapse was certainly predicted by prior rock falls particularly of the “bridge” portion. Thanks for posting!

[KC Burke]

Thanks for sharing this as a followup to the other thread. I always knew the photographs as they are iconic, but I have never visited Malta and although I would love to, there are other places higher on the list if I were to travel that far again,

Has anyone visited Malta and care to share their memories?

[Albion Wilde]

In the video, there was an aerial view directly above the bridge, and you could plainly see several stress cracks across the arch portion, all the way from one side the the other.

[Albion Wilde]

Here's what I know about Malta recently:

Meet the patriots who fear Muslim takeover of Malta

Muslim Demographic Takeover in Malta

[JimSEA]

I noticed that. Plainly the time had come for this beautiful sea arch.

[Shark24]

Yes, there was a reason I posted this under religion.