Iglesia San Juan del Hospital
Medieval hospital church of the Knights Hospitaller, with Valencia's only surviving in-situ cemetery.
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This guide to Iglesia San Juan del Hospital in Valencia opens with a monastic rule read aloud to every new brother of the Knights Hospitaller: feed the sick well, three times a week, as medicine in itself. It traces the order back to 1238, when King Jaime the First handed them a captured palace by the Xerea gate for fighting at his side, and the hospital they built for pilgrims bound for the Holy Land. Stand in the courtyard beside the church, where that infirmary once stood, and listen for how a written diet became this corner of Valencia's most lasting cure.
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