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Rotunda of St. George, Skalica

Skalica, Slovakia · built 1100

The Rotunda of St. George (Slovak: Rotunda svätého Juraja) also known as the Chapel of St. George is a rotunda building built in the early Romanesque style, probably in the 11th century. It was later rebuilt in the Gothic and Baroque styles. The Rotunda is considered a symbol of Skalica. Field inspections and subsequent archaeological research, which took place here in 1974, 1976-1980, showed that the Rontuda of St. George was built in the early Middle Ages and that the width of the walls, the circular nave and the horseshoe-shaped apse are completely identical in size to the rotunda in Ducové. The exact date of the rotunda's construction is not yet known. Its architecture follows the type of Bohemian and Moravian rotundas and, together with historical circumstances, suggests that its construction dates back to the end of the 10th century or the beginning of the 11th century.

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