St. Longin's Rotunda
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St. Longin's Rotunda is one of the few preserved romanesque rotundas in Prague. It was founded in the 12th century as a parish church for a village "Rybníček" which was there before the founding of the Prague New Town
New Town, Prague
The New Town is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and largest of the five independent towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague...

 in the middle of the 14th century.

The rotunda was nearly demolished in the 19th century while the nearby street (Na Rybníčku) was being built, but fortunatelly it was saved by František Palacký
František Palacký
František Palacký was a Czech historian and politician.-Biography:...

.

See also

List of Romanesque architecture#Czech Republic
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