All the tools to understand history!
The Route of the Templars and its members offer you educational and entertaining tools to apprehend and understand, at any age, the history and role of the Order of the Templars in the Middle Ages.
Online gaming for all
Enter the world of the Knights of the Order of the Temple and complete the quest that will guide you to their treasure!
Your mission?
The history of the game places you in the XXIIIth century where you discover that mankind, strengthened by its great scientific discoveries, is capable of sending members of its elite to travel through time. The special agency of which you are a part, sends you to the Dawn to pierce one of the most enigmatic and secret secrets of History. You leave to explore Troyes in the 12th century and elucidate the famous mystery of the Knights Templar. You will meet the inhabitants and obtain precious information for your quest. But you will have to infiltrate the Order and meet its founder Hugues de Payns. Your success depends only on you. It’s up to you.
Educational booklet
Extend the Templar experience thanks to the educational booklet and go further in the interactions with the online game. Thanks to this small booklet you will be able to deepen your knowledge and discover explanations on the themes dealt with in episode 1 and in the quizzes. Ideal for exchanges between teachers and schoolchildren, this booklet deals with the elements of the order of the temple, the knights, the importance of the forest, the kitchens and food, and music in medieval times.
The children's book "Tomar and the Knights Templar", by Carlos Trincão
Published in February 2020, the children’s book “Tomar e os Templarios” (“Tomar and the Templars”), produced by Carlos Trincão, is aimed at primary school students.
The publication, illustrated and colourful, traces the history of the Knights Templar in Tomar and covers the main aspects of the city’s ties with the Knights Templar, namely :
- Tomar: Templar capital of Portugal
- The Legend of Tomar’s name
- The castle of Tomar, la rotunda and the church of Santa Maria dos Olivais
- Who was Gualdim Pais?
- The Knights Templar in Portugal
- The commanderies
- Who were the Knights Templar?
- The Crusades
- The organisation of the Order
- The symbols
- Wealth
- Women in the time of the Knights Templar
- The end of the order and the beginning of the order of Christ
The book is available in schools of the City of Tomar and in e-book in Portuguese, French and English.
- Download the French version “Tomar and the Templars”.
- Download the Portuguese version of “Tomar e os Templarios”.
- Download the French version of “Tomar et les Templiers”.
Published by the Municipality of Tomar, March 1, 2020, 860th anniversary of the Foundation of Tomar, as part of the Route of the Knights Templar and the commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar.
On loan from the Templars exhibition. A history, our treasure
This exhibition was conceived in 2012 by the Department of Aube, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the dissolution of the Templar Order (1312-2012). It retraces the history of these men engaged in a life that was both spiritual and military. This journey to the heart of the Middle Ages underlines the leading role of the Champenois in the Order of the Templars, who combined chivalry and a life of poverty between East and West.
This exhibition allows us to go back to the origin of the Order in the Holy Land, during the first crusades. A military and religious order, the Knights Templar combined chivalry and a life of poverty between East and West. On their return to France, their network allowed them to develop and enrich themselves. But too powerful, they became a shadow for the Pope and the King of France. The latter therefore decided to dissolve the Order. Part of the exhibition is also devoted to the imagination that the Knights Templar can generate, and in particular its famous treasure, which has never been found until now.
View some examples of the exhibition’s panels:
Travelling exhibitions are lent free of charge to schools, public institutions and associations for a period of a few days to 1 month. Transport is at the expense of the applicant.
For more information on the exhibition, its formats and borrowing arrangements: www.archives-aube.fr +33 3 25 42 52 52
3D tour The ideal commandery
The 3D reconstruction of a Templar commandery is based on the discoveries made during the archaeological survey of Payns (Aube, France) in 1998. The Aube sites of Fresnoy and Avalleur were used to construct the buildings.
This video was produced as part of the exhibition “Templars. Une histoire, notre trésor” presented in 2012 by the Department of Aube.
Production: Aube Departmental Council
Directed by: Okénite Animation
Duration: 6 minutes
Webinars on Youtube
The city of Tomar offers 4 webinars on the Order of the Temple from yesterday to today: “Ordem do Templo – Reflexões”.
Available on the city’s Youtube channel www.youtube.com/municipiodetomar_oficial, the conferences cover the following themes:
#1. The Awakening of the Templars in Portugal (Despertar Templário Portugal)
#2. The Templars today (Os Templários na Atualidade)
#3. The Order of the Temple of Tomar: between originality and imitation of a paradigm of the Latin East
#4. The memory of the Templars: mythology and message
The awakening of the Knights Templar in Portugal
The Knights Templar today
The Order of the Temple of Tomar: between originality and imitation of a paradigm of the Latin East
The memory of the Knights Templar:
mythology and
message
Workshop "Templar Frescoes. Create your fresco"
Munus s.r.l. offers in the church of San Bevignate a series of educational workshops for children and adults.
Workshop for children (over 5 years of age) and adults.
Duration: about 2 hours.
Historical Period involved: The Middle Ages
Key words: Medieval History, Medieval Art, Fresco, Iconography, Art Techniques
Teaching Methodology: the methodology of the workshop consists in a guided tour focused on the Templar symbology in the frescos of the Templar Complex of San Bevignate and an introduction to the fresco technique.
Workshop: those involved are asked to choose their “cartone” (stancil)among the stylisation of the frescos of San Bevignate. The cartone is punctured and transposes with the “spolvero” technique on the support prepared by themselves according the fresco techniques. Then the Fresco is finished with the colours. The artefact is given to the participants.
On reservation only, minimum 4 participants.
The workshop can be simultaneously done by little groups of children and adults.
Info and Reservations:
Munus s.r.l.
tel. +39 075 9477727
email: palazzodellapenna@munus.com
Workshop "Hunting the Templar Treasure"
Munus s.r.l. offers in the church of San Bevignate a series of educational workshops for children and adults.
Workshop for children (over 5 years of age; not above 18).
Duration: about 2 hours.
Historical Period involved: Roman Time, The Middle Ages, Contemporary Age
Key words: Medieval History, Medieval Art, Iconography, Archaeology, Contemporary History; Local History, History of Religions, Ancients Crafts.
Teaching Methodology: the methodology of the workshop consists in a guided tour focused on the features of the Templar Complex of San Bevignate (till its recent history) and of the “fullonica” (Sort of Laundry) of Roman Times, connected to the History of the Order and of San Bevignate.
Workshop: those involved are asked to solve little mysteries linking various details and features of the complex and the “fullonica” going long the History of San Bevignate.
On reservation only, minimum 6 participants.
Info and Reservations:
Munus s.r.l.
tel. +39 075 9477727
email: palazzodellapenna@munus.com
Workshop "Riding a Hobby Horse"
Munus s.r.l. offers in the church of San Bevignate a series of educational workshops for children and adults.
Fees: free (on appointed days) with fee for replies on reservation.
Duration: about 3 hours.
Age: 3 -10 years of age
Historical Period involved: The Middle Ages
Key words: Medieval Art History, Iconography, Medieval History, Nature, Animals, Art Critic History.
Workshop: The great Art Historian Ernst Gombrich, who also wrote historic dissemination for children A Little History of the World, entitled his collection of essays on art theory Meditations on a Hobby Horse And Other Essays on the Theory of Art, underlying in this way the importance of imagination for the creation process. The imagining is strongly visible on the frescos of the counter-façade of the Templar Complex of San Bevignate, in which the far away “Holy Land” is given by representing huge phantasy trees and ferocious animals. In the same frescos are several horses, of fundamental importance for the Templars, with rich and colourful harness. The workshop is focused on the discovery of this aspect of the art and life of the Templar, and is divided into two parts: the first where the Templar Horses will be presented, and the second where those involved will be asked to create their own Templar horse, using cardboard for the head, body and harness. At the end of the workshop the boys and girls will run a race with their creations and then they will bring it home.
On reservation only, minimum a week before intended and with 6 participants.
Info and Reservations:
Munus s.r.l.
tel. +39 075 9477727
email: palazzodellapenna@munus.com
Educational Project "Steamer Project. Escape rooms adapted for school education on STEAM"
Munus s.r.l. offers in the church of San Bevignate a series of educational workshops for children and adults.
Together with Work in Progress and the association Atto secondo, the European digital educational project STEAM foresees the designing and making of immersive workshop with the help of new technologies (gaming, video, social etc.) dedicated to the discovery of the Templar Complex of San Bevignate by means of narration and the investigation methodology of the “escape rooms”, for pupils of secondary schools.
Different fees for singular participants or group
Info and Reservations:
Munus s.r.l.
tel. +39 075 9477727
email: palazzodellapenna@munus.com
Educational and workshop remote tools of San Bevignate
On the Templar Complex of San Bevignate several in-depth digital contents are available, free of charge on smartphone, from home or inside the Museum.
The educational tools present brief in-depth and dissemination texts, with images and videos projecting the visitor inside the art works and History of the Templar Complex of San Bevignate.
The workshop tools are little digital games (puzzles, crosswords, etc.) dedicated to the Templar Complex of San Bevignate, helping to know better and in a playful way some aspects linked to it.
Some examples to try: