The national groups of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers corresponded to the so-called "tongues", which maintained their own inns in the city. On the picture, marble relief coat of arms inserted in the facade of the inn of the "tongue" of France.
Rhodes, 4th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Archaeological Receipts Fund.
Kollias, I., Oi ippotes tis Rodou. To Palati kai i Poli, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens 1991, p. 132, phot. 109.
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