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The Knights Templar Church of Ognissanti, Trani
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The North side of the medieval Porto di Trani. Just to the left of centre (not the monstrosity to the right of centre) is the 1100s church of Ognissanti (below), which now backs onto the narrow laned medieval ghetto area. Trani had one of the biggest Jewish communities in southern Italy, who in their heyday operated an Emperor granted silk monopoly. Back in the 1100s the church actually stood at the corner of the grounds of a large Knights Templar hospital, and was built as its chapel. Trani was a major embarkation and revictualling point for the crusades of the 1100s and 1200s. The quality of the apse window decorations (below below), even though they are somewhat refurbished, and the interior furnishings, indicate that this was no ordinary little port chapel - the Templars did not do ordinariness!
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