Condition: as photo shows, clean, without any harm
Size: 33 x 33 milimetres
Issued in Czech Republic, 21st September 2022
Two postage stamps
Theme: Hexagonal tiles with a relief of a mythical creature griffin and of a lion. According to legend, the rotunda was erected on the site where a carriage with the dead body of St Wenceslas stopped. The legend has it that the animals pulling the wagon refused to move on until some unjustly imprisoned people were released from the nearby prison. In the High Middle Ages, the rotunda served as a funeral chapel and adjoined the nearby parish church of St Nicholas. After the Battle of White Mountain, when the church of St Nicholas was donated to the Jesuits, the rotunda was rebuilt in Baroque style (in the years 1628–29) and became a church belonging to the Lesser Town parish administration. In the second half of the 17th century, the Jesuits began construction of a new complex of buildings in the area, which eventually led to the demolition of this Romanesque sanctuary and its replacement by the newly built Baroque church of St Wenceslas. The remaining torso of the former rotunda remained hidden in the foundations of the Baroque buildings. In 2003, during the remodelling of the buildings of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in the Lesser Town, the works in the so-called Professional House began to be complicated by unknown blocks of masonry, which were first designated as Baroque cellars. It later turned out that there was no entrance to them, so it had to be a crypt. After dismantling the crypts, three pieces of circular Romanesque masonry appeared between the remaining walls, and it soon became clear that it must be the legendary rotunda. The most significant discovery was the remaining part of the original Romanesque floor, which made the rotunda one of the leading Romanesque monuments in the Czech Republic. The fragment consists of 74 tiles of three shapes
Method of printing: offset
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