{"id":"3538","t":"Knight of Malta","t_s":-1,"tags":["3312"],"thumb":{"fid":"4284","styles":{"circle_medium":"circle_medium_4284","circle_mini":"circle_mini_4284"},"ext":"png"},"pics":["4143"],"loc":"3425","loc_map":-1,"body":"<p>Costume presented in connection with the exhibition entitled \"Manneken-Pis: An Outstanding European Brusseler\", organised by the City of Brussels Museum. On this occasion, the City of Brussels asked the Embassy of Malta to present Manneken-Pis with a new costume, so that every member country in the European Union would be represented in the display. In 1530 Charles V granted the Islands of Malta to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.This was an order of soldier-monks founded in Jerusalem during the Crusades in around 1100, for the defence of the Crusader States in the Holy Land.<\/p>\r\n","fav":"0","fav_l":"0","don":"The Embassy of Malta","d_y":2010,"d_m":6,"d_d":19,"d_s":-1}