Street of the Knights of Rhodes
Stone-paved medieval lane of seven knightly inns linking a hospital to a palace.
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This guide to the Street of the Knights in Rhodes runs the length of the order's old headquarters, from the Hospital of the Knights of Saint John at one end to the Grand Master's palace at the other. It traces the hospital's surprising house rule that patients ate better than the knights guarding them, and the seven inns along the way where knights from France, Italy, Provence, Auvergne, Aragon, England, and Germany each kept their own quarters. Look up at the carved coats of arms overhead as you walk the six-hundred-meter stretch.
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