Chiesa E Commenda Di San Giovanni Di Pre Genova Stock Image

The church and the Hospitaller Commandery of San Giovanni di Prè constitute one of the most significant architectural ensembles of the Genoese Middle Ages: the complex was occupied by the Knights of Jerusalem. In the Commenda there were the quarters of the Knights and the hospital that housed the pilgrims; the Commenda was connected directly to the church through an internal portal. The church seems to date back to 636 when the Genoese - to preserve the memory of the holy places, which had fallen into the hands of the Turks, built a church on the model and with the title of that of the Holy Sepulcher near the port of the suburb of Prè.