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A unique
walk-through heritage attraction dealing with the history and the work of
the Knights of St. John notably their role as a Hospitaller Order of
Chivalry in the medieval period on the island of Malta.
Beneath the
'Sacra Infermeria', as the Holy Infirmary was then known, and on the
actual site of the historic hospital you will discover the chivalrous
world of the renowned Hospitaller Knights of the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta.
Now you can
go back in times through the sights and sounds of their period. From the
Crusades to the Great Siege of 1565, the building of the glorious
hospital, the development of surgery, the origins of modern day healthcare
and medicine, and the ravages of plague, besides other glorious episodes.
Travel across 700 years of the illustrious history of the Knights of St.
John.
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