Hospital of the Knights Templar

This was the Hospital of the Knights Templar, located in the old town of Spinazzola (via Vignola,29), Barletta-Andria-Trani, in the Italian region of Apulia.

According to Giovan Battista Prignano¹, it was donated to the Templars by Accardo, sir of Lecce, in 1137 A.D.

What is left of the hospital is quite different from the original structure: however, the ruins of the small Church of San Giovanni and a Latin inscription on top of an arch can still be seen. The inscription reads as follows: "VIGNOLA DOMUM HANC BAPTISTA IOANNES MIRERIS SISTO VIATOR ITER A.D. 1691" .

• Photos by Rosalba De Siati moc.liamg|49itaisedablasor#| (December 2013)

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Bibliography

• VV. AA., Templari e Teutonici nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo e le Crociate, Edizioni Dedalo, Bari 2002, pag. 257-258.

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Footnotes

1. A seventheenth-century scholar who devoted himself to the study of semi-public and private documents found in Southern Italy's archives