Acre
Hospitaller Fortress / Knights’ Halls (Hospitaller commandery)
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- On screen
- Hospitalier Fortress, north of the Poor District; Garnier de Naplouse
- Where
- Acre, Israel
- Type of site
- Ticketed visitor site (museum complex), usually combined with other Old Acre sites.
- Time & access
- 1.5–2.5 hours. In the north of Old Acre; walkable within the Old City.
- Nearest location
- Citadel of Acre – directly above (same complex, entered separately).
In the game
The game's Garnier de Naplouse was a real man: Grand Master of the Hospitallers from 1190 to 1192, present when Acre was retaken in July 1191 and at Arsuf that September. The real order's hospital role inspires the game's fortress-hospital; most of the halls you see today date from the decades after 1191.
The place today
Excavated and restored; open as a museum complex.
What to look out for
- The fleur-de-lis consoles in the refectory
- the open courtyard that lay under metres of fill until the 1990s
- the latrines
- the sugar-production finds
- the Ottoman citadel walls rising above the Crusader vaults – two eras in one view
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Always check opening times, access rules and travel advice before you go.