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. 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).