A system that began in a house
The Hospitaller Order today runs hundreds of hospitals worldwide.
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A museum in a sixteenth-century house in central Granada, in the place where John of God died in 1550. His story is the reason for the museum: a soldier and then a bookseller, who after a personal crisis devoted his life to caring for the sick, the poor and the homeless of Granada, gathering them and founding a refuge that was in effect among the first organised hospitals of modern Europe. What he began became, after his death, the Hospitaller Order — a religious order that today runs hundreds of hospitals and care centres around the world, from Spain to Africa, Asia and Latin America. A global healthcare system started in this house. The collection is his personal possessions, documents and religious art gathered by the order over the centuries, and the house itself is post-conquest Granadan architecture with an inner courtyard. Hours are limited and the visit may be by guided tour. Check before going. It stands in central Granada a short walk from the cathedral.
The Hospitaller Order today runs hundreds of hospitals worldwide.
John of God was a soldier and bookseller before devoting his life to the sick.
Post-conquest Granadan architecture with a courtyard and holdings that never left.
Casa de los Pisa, central Granada
El BañueloEl Bañuelo in Granada is among the oldest surviving Arab baths in Spain, dating 3 min walk
Monasterio de la ConcepciónAn early sixteenth-century Franciscan convent in central Granada, holding a smal3 min walk
Museo SefardíA small museum in Granada's Realejo district devoted to the history of the Sepha3 min walk
Alcazaba of the AlhambraThe Alcazaba is the military part of the Alhambra and its oldest section. Built 4 min walk
Palacio de la MadrazaWhat survives of the Nasrid madrasa founded by Sultan Yusuf I in the fourteenth 4 min walkPortuguese-born, he lived in the sixteenth century and worked as a soldier, then a shepherd, then a bookseller in Granada. After a severe mental crisis he was placed in an asylum, and what he saw of how patients were treated there drove him to devote his life to their care. He founded a refuge in Granada that became a model for organising healthcare, and he is today the patron of the sick, of nurses and of hospitals.
The Basilica of San Juan de Dios is minutes away, among the richest baroque churches in Spain with an entirely gilded interior; plus Granada cathedral and the Royal Chapel where the Catholic Monarchs are buried, and the Royal Hospital. All walkable.
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