The 9 Circles of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy based in Malta

“A lot of people are familiar with Dante’s Divine Comedy. A great masterpiece written by a guy who was either really creative or was really high. The Divine Comedy tells the story of Dante as he travels through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in order to find both God and his dead girlfriend Beatrice. Anyway, this guy stumbles upon the deceased poet Virgil who was kind of just chilling about. These two walk around the woods for some time until they come upon the gates of hell, which state ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ which should totally be Tigne Point’s car park’s slogan, but whatever. Here are the nine circles of hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy reimagined in Malta.”  […]    –ChiaraM, Lovin Malta, August 10, 2018

1. The First Circle
Limbo

The first circle of hell in this epic poem is a place for the unbaptised, but in Malta it would literally be all the main roads and bypasses during rush hour. This place is reserved for all those who end up stuck on the Birkirkara bypass after 16.30. They do not really suffer as much as the other sinners, but they still feel the constant ache of being tragically and perpetually stuck for over ten minutes in the same position. These desperate souls are generally tortured by heat, hunger, being late and Bay radio.