Valletta - Hospital of the Order
Parallel with Republic Street in Valletta, to the southeast, is Merchants Street, which also begins at the bastions of Fort St Elmo. Some 130yd/I20m along it is crossed by Old Hospital Street in which, to the left, is the Hospital of the Order. Its situation on the south-facing slope of Mount Sciberras was perhaps climatically unsatisfactory, but enabled sick and wounded to be brought easily and quickly into hospital from ships anchored in the adjoining Grand Harbor.
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The building was erected in the time of the Grand Master, Jean I'Evêque de la Cassière (1572-81 ) by an unknown architect. It now houses the Mediterranean Conference Center ("multi-vision" display on the history of Malta).
