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Visitors in front of Romanesque Rotunda of St Martin, V pevnosti, Vysehrad.

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Rotunda of St Martin

Prague


The 11th-century Rotunda of St Martin is Prague’s oldest surviving building. The door and frescoes date from a renovation made about 1880. The rotunda is normally closed, but the interior can be viewed during Mass.


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