--- title: Game of Thrones: Azure Window Landmark Collapse Reactions description: After a strong storm swept through Malta Wednesday, the Azure Window arch was — much to the dismay of many — lost to the sea. canonical: https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-09T16:15:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:45.199Z og:title: The Internet Is Heartbroken Over This Game of Thrones Loss og:description: It's an iconic landmark: "Khaleesi, part of your home is gone!" og:url: https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Heartbroken Over This Game of Thrones Loss twitter:description: It's an iconic landmark: "Khaleesi, part of your home is gone!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Has a Lot of Feelings About the Collapse of This Famous _Game of Thrones_ Landmark > Sponsored content. 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The limestone rock formation has long been considered an iconic landmark, but was made even more famous when it was featured in the 2011 series premiere of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/)during the wedding of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa). In a [statement posted to Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=10158369409670707&id=294241570706), the Gozo Tourism Association wrote: “The flagship of the Gozitan touristic sites has sunk in its same birthplace from where for thousands of years, it stood high and proud heralding one of the natural beauties our little island is endowed with.” Following the arch’s collapse into the Mediterranean Sea due to natural corrosion, fans of Tieqa tad-Dwejra — as it was known in Malta — took to Twitter to mourn its “[heartbreaking](https://twitter.com/JosephMuscat%5FJM/status/839403739974893568?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)” loss. > [](https://twitter.com/helloiamtheKING/status/839602495919910915) > [](https://twitter.com/borg%5Fdj/status/839479057104449536) > [](https://twitter.com/Alan%5FGrech/status/839421086206988288) > [](https://twitter.com/RyanPaulAbela/status/839451842450972673) > [](https://twitter.com/Stephabooboo/status/839449680325001216) > [](https://twitter.com/VisitMalta/status/839492900954255365) > [](https://twitter.com/Jonathan%5FAtha/status/839484400706457604) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/"},"headline":"The Internet Has a Lot of Feelings About the Collapse of This Famous Game of Thrones Landmark","datePublished":"2017-03-09T16:15:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:45.199Z","description":"\"Khaleesi, part of your home is gone!\"","url":"https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Internet","game of thrones","nature","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4696640/game-of-thrones-azure-window/","name":"The Internet Has a Lot of Feelings About the Collapse of This Famous Game of Thrones Landmark"}}]}] ```