In Malta one cannot escape from history; when one goes for a swim, no matter where, one is always under the watchful eye of one of the coastal towers. These square two-storied towers are known as the “de Redin” towers because most of them (but not all) were built by Grand Master Martin de Redin during the middle of the 17th century.

A cannon was fired by day and a beacon lit a night and on the alarm being given, the towers to the left and to the right repeated the signal and within a short time the whole coastline was alerted in this way.

The Ghajn Tuffieha Tower overlooks two sandy beaches; one of the bays, the larger one, has had its name changed from il-Ramla Mixquqa (the Beach of Cracks, from the fissured cliffs surrounding it), to Military Bay when it was incorporated within the Ghajn Tuffieha Camp (some of the old barracks have been converted into a holiday complex), and finally to the name it now bears: “Golden Bay”.