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Kostol svätého Mikuláša

Slovakia

On Vetvárska Street in Podunajské Biskupice, at Bratislava's south-eastern edge, stands a church that is easy to underestimate. It has three aisles, a single tower on the west side and a polygonal sanctuary. Its walls carry Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and Classicist features, because it has been rebuilt again and again. It is often called the oldest Romanesque building in Bratislava and the oldest consecrated church in the city. Even its own signage simplifies things. The board by the entrance calls it a 14th-century cultural monument, while the same source elsewhere describes a Romanesque-Gothic church from the middle of the 13th century.

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