Karozzin

The horse cab (karrozzin) has not yet been driven off the street by the motor-car, and provides a pleasant mode of making short journeys; [...]

Characteristic of the island is the horse-drawn karrozzin—unfortunately rapidly disappearing—but which you will still see in many places around Valletta, [...]

The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

The Maltese horse-drawn cab – the karozzin – was introduced in 1856 and is still a familiar sight in Valletta.

Those wishing to go at a gentler pace can hire a karrozin for short sight-seeing trips or take a dghaisa across the bays and harbours.

Horse carriages, so popular in years gone by, reappeared in surprising number, including dozens of those graceful, elegantly appointed victorias (called karrozins) that had formerly served as Malta's taxis.

When Valletta's breathless heat became intolerable, the family would load all their furniture onto carts and, with their two maids, climb into two horse-drawn karozzin.

Fürst missed the commercial foresight to paint more of it and less of the dazzling sheen of waves. With ghonnellas, dgħajsas and karrozzini, his paintings would today fetch four or five figure prices at auction.