Knights' Halls, Old Akko

Excellent Museum

This place does a really nice job. It’s well organized and easy to follow through the various halls. I learned a lot about the history of Akko, particularly the Crusades era. They give you and audi...

Beautiful

This is a lovely place to wander. The audio guide wasn't really to my taste, but did have some interesting things to say and was included in the price of the ticket. Well worth a visit.

Amazing education here

Knights ' Halls is a series of halls opening into a large courtyard. They were used by the Hospitallers as a welcome center and hospital. Each one is distinctive and makes sense of what we know of C...

Huge testimony of a powerful chivalric order.

The "Knights" in this case are the "Hospitaliers" ones, that is the first of the monastic-chivalric orders present in the Holy Land, founded in 1113 and which at that time had its main headquarters in...

Evocative remnant of times past

The Knights' Hall celebrates the Crusaders who occupied Akka. The Knights Templar were an order of knights who dedicated themselves to recovering the Holy Land for Christianity. The flags and banners ...