Images. Emotions that no. No. Go see every weekend on d w. Every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the. Eco is in germany to learn german why not learn a simple online on your mobile and free to suffer from d w z e learning course you can speak german made easy. Behind the walls of st elmo and his feverish activity the knights of the order of st john trying to organize the lines of defense a feat of two. Two hundred turkish men of war has been sighted off the coast of malta forty thousand heavily armed autumn and are about to attack seven thousand christians led by the knights of malta will attempt to withstand the onslaught. On the eighteenth of may fifteenth sixty five attacks attack the despite their superior numbers they meet unexpectedly determined resistance the attempt to take the full by surprise fails the defenders put up a dog fight within a month the turks have lost eight thousand men and then does faults and elma full. Weekend attacks launched a Second Attack on the opposite side of the harbor there the defense is led by the grand master of malta john perry saw that with his soldiers and circled by the turks they resist for a full long months. Then at last the help theyve been waiting for arrives from sicily the tables are turned the sultans army demoralized by the long struggle phase from the island in panic. I i. I i am. The whole of europe rejoiced at the victory of the aggressively expansionist ottomans the knights of st john was celebrated as the saviors of the christian occident brave defenders of the faith in gratitude and to protect the island better against future attacks pope pius the fourth sent them one of his best architects francesco. The people of michelangelo and an expert in the construction of fortifications. According to his design on the back hills of mount scabrous a town came into being the first in the modern era to be conceived on the drawing board. Valletta. Like a grid twelve streets around the breadth and nine the length of what waltz until the end of a can spit of land and crowding the whole development at the point of the prom tree was false and so bitterly fought over in the famous each. For all its jim metric lay out the town has nothing static or rigid about it the up and down of the streets the colored facades of the houses with their wooden balconies simulated against the blue of the sky convey a feeling of mediterranean lightness. The peaceful it del of the town was dependent on protective walls malta had been weakened and fear during new turkish attack to build up our alley and circle valetta with towering ramparts hugh not the rock built stone upon stone forbidding and impregnable. Much across the peninsula the builders dug out a ditch fifteen metres deep in the stony bedrock twenty metres wide and a kilometer a night. Possibly the longest and deepest ditch avodart by men. Inside the city all will swell huge out of the rock fortifications within the foot of a cations built to service retreat fortresses and cannon platforms over the coast at decades a gigantic stronghold came into being the standard forbidding aspect would deter any enemy from attacking motive for the next century its. That time grew and developed into a modern city a fuss that would buildings in the plain style of the renaissance late out of the wood into the manor the age the knights of malta built all the seriously animal brocks style they also built the sagrada and family of a hospital with a thousand beds highly modern for its time he had a hospital as took care of the sick until anatomy and surgery to students of the order. The main road was one hundred sixty five metres long and entry in the diary of a british ships chaplain described it as follows it is so wide that twelve men could easily walk abreast down the middle of it on both sides that are vets with iron posts which have caton z. And sheets and come to paint and a cat scrupulously clean and fresh. The conventual chuch of the order of st john the baptist not was the Religious Center of the top on the outside it looks over on a door and a stronghold a fate. Interior is one of the lot splenda attesting the wealth and grandia of the order of knights hospital a us and john jerusalem the whole chuch was a gift of a french knight yeah he was elected grandmaster the wouldnt and this was his way of expressing his gratitude. The floor of the cathedral was transformed into a copied of colored stones memorials at the graves of the sons of european artistic rafiq families who died in the service of the order. The order was clearly a strong chit the knights were divided according to the native Language International long each of the nationality is its own side chapel in the chapel of the italians theres a huge stock office and a st jerome a painting. Representing his patron binya cool grand master of the order. To it. Band of the italian nom resided in the notch bash of italy as commander in chief of the fleet of the order he had come on over. The sailors on the oarsmen National Sculpture of the entrance originated in the later years of the religious wars between muslims and christians on the mediterranean the stone age and scimitars and taverns and cannons and souls that witness to the constant battle of the brother members of the order against the islamic saracens. In the all that they are. With the administrators of the order contracts diplomatic documents and the seal of the order were kept the palace was built in seven hundred forty four by pinto defense echoed his bust is almost lost at the center of the mighty work of ops over the main portal the sumptuous piece but the rich long could well afford vast a main drop in a high income they provided the most nights and the corresponding a influential. Pinto led the order for thirty two years longer than any other grandmaster. The defense of christianity and the care of the sick with the original duties of the order in times of peace these objectives were lost sight of the crusades were long over and the infidel autumn and is no longer threatened the christian world the knights of st john were not needed any more as a protective force increased affluence had come to them over the last centuries through new avenues of calmness and trade. Privateering expeditions on the mediterranean and now mainly stuff the club has been increasing that. The knights had long since abandoned the strict rules of that woulda. In favor of a life of luxury and ease. Here in the grandmasters palace political issues of significance when i no longer on the agenda twenty seven masters of the order had resided here the twenty eighth would be the last one. That inland from home past an austrian grandma stuff was sitting alone in his potus on the ninth of june seventeenth ninety eight in total indifference to what was happening around him massa story and how. The enemy who had assembled his fleet this time of malta was a frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte the most famous fortress of the mediterranean was surrendered without a shot being fired. Was. The flag of the order which had waved so proudly of the countless battlefields in the holy land and in the east which was the dread of the muslims at sea was no good up to two hundred sixty ideas without so much as it would. Then i am. I am am i. Entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful. This week on big zone is in warsaw where the first government is facing mounting criticism from the e. U. Over its record on democracy and human rights my guest is the deputy Prime Minister matteo. This is government ready to address the concerns voiced by brussels will continue rejecting them out of the sofa news on t. W. The Festive Season in naples via sound gregorio our may know is the go to place for nato the figurine. From the virgin mary in the christ child to soccer stars and t. V. Shows theres something for every taste. Jesus mary and. The native of the seasons of naples. Thirty minutes w. What does a football loving country need to reach its goals. 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