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Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross

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at the Eastern side. Apse is decorated by an arched frieze. At the top, there is a lantern with compound Romanesque windows, with, at the very top, gold-plated cross, crescent moon, and an eight-pointed star. Six-sided Romanesque ceramic tiles with a griffin of Vyšehrad type were discovered on the
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the sanctuary was shut down as part of ecclesial reforms, and the chapel became a warehouse. In 1860 there were plans to tear down the church due to construction of a new house. By the initiative of Ferdinand Bretislav Mikovec and
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floor, a silver coin (denarius) from 1018 of Prince Jaromír from the Přemyslid dynasty was found near the rotunda in the 19th century. Romanesque marl roofing was discovered during restoration work in 2022.
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committed to restore the exterior for no reward. Ullmann also designed an altar, decorated by the painter Jan Popelík. Josef Mánes designed the grills around the rotunda.
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rotunda in Prague 1, Old Town quarter, on the crossing of Konviktská and Karolíny Světlé street. Its founding is considered after 1125.
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organisation intervened to save the building, and they succeeded. Town council bought the rotunda from a private owner, and architect
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https://www.praguecityline.com/prague-monuments/rotunda-of-the-holy-cross-centre-of-the-unique-urbanistic-cross-of-the-old-prague/
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River crossings. It is possible that it originally belonged to one of the old town mansions as a private sanctuary. There was a
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Small and simple building made of smaller marlite stones cut in rows consists of a round nave vaulted into a dome with a
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https://www.prague.eu/en/object/places/457/rotunda-of-the-finding-of-the-holy-cross-rotunda-nalezeni-sv-krize
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The first written mention comes from 1365, when the rotunda was a
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Stone (marl) roofing (12th century), discovered in 2022
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