HOUSE OF THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN
A Venetian Renaissance building that stands out from the typical Alsatian architecture in Colmar.
Little Venice is not called like that for nothing. This astonishing (and surprising here!) building of Venetian Renaissance style deserves to be stopped there; it is different from the typically Alsatian architecture of the other monuments of Colmar. Built in 1608 by the architect Albert Schmidt, it was destroyed in the 19th century and rebuilt identically. Its facade and its roof are classified as historical monuments. Its gallery of arcades is simply sublime.
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Saint John Knights had their houses in the Netherlands, Malta Jerusalem and Sweden. At one point they colonised some Caribbean Islands that they later handed over to France.
Their history is spreads several history and several disputed historic claims are made from current Orders of Saint John over the world.
Ironie ou pas nous avons un bras de rivière surnommé la petite Venise qui est à quelques pas de la maison des Chevaliers de Saint-Jean