Ġnejna Bay

Ġnejna Bay (Maltese pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒnɛj.nɐ]) is a popular tourist destination located about 1 kilometer from the village of Mġarr on the western coast of Malta.

A secluded strip of shore under the steep cliff on the northern side of the bay is a popular nudist beach, although the practice is technically illegal in Malta and frowned upon by the conservative Catholic population.

[7] According to local legend, Lucia, the only daughter of a certain Baron Bernardo Zammit, disappeared from her bedroom on the morning of her wedding to a wealthy Sicilian count, some 300 years ago.

Believing that Lucia had been abducted by corsairs, the Baron mounted an armed search of Ġnejna Bay, which proved futile.

One year later, the bells of a local church started tolling unexpectedly, and a vision of the missing Lucia, clad in a nun's habit, appeared before the altar.

She told the villagers that she had run away from home to avoid marrying the elderly Count and, having taken nun's vows, had spent the past year tending to the wounded in a foreign land until she was killed by a stray arrow.