Church
Rotunda sv. Martina
K Rotundě 100, 128 00 Praha 2-Vyšehrad
Romanesque round chapel from the eleventh century, the oldest building still standing in the city.
This guide to the Rotunda sv. Martina in Prague opens in 1841, when a road crew arrived with orders to demolish the small round chapel, until a nobleman, Count Karel Chotek, stepped in just before the hammers fell. It traces the rotunda's origins back to the eleventh century under Bohemian ruler Vratislav II, and the violence it survived over the centuries, including a Prussian bombardment in 1757 that left a cannonball lodged in its wall. Look for that scar in the stone beside the window.
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