rotunda sv. Kateřiny
Czechia
You reach the rotunda of St Catherine by climbing a stair, which is unusual in itself for a building of this kind. It sits on a raised spur of rock inside the grounds of the Přemyslid castle in Znojmo, a cylindrical nave with an apse on its eastern side, lit only by small Romanesque windows. Bohemia and Moravia have many early medieval rotundas, and this national cultural monument is one of them. What sets it apart is inside: Romanesque wall paintings dated to 1134, considered exceptional across European Romanesque art for being built around the ideology of the state rather than purely religious themes.
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