Showing posts with label Nieuwpoort. Show all posts
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The Templars of Nieuwpoort and the Duvetorre

Little remains of the Templar presence in Nieuwpoort, a fishing town on the Belgian coast. A bequest from 1239, a mural uncovered behind a staircase in 1819, and a tower whose destruction is almost always misdated. What actually survives of this story once the errors are stripped away?