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Splendours of Our Homeland
Rotunda of St. George, Skalica
Catalogue Number:  278
Graphic lay-out Dušan Grečner
Stamp Engraving:  Václav Fajt
Date of Issue:  November 15, 2002
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
Size of Impression:  23.0 mm x 40.0 mm
Print Run:  260,000
FDC Motif:  Dušan Grečner
FDC Engraving: Václav Fajt
Cancellation Design:  Dušan Grečner
FDC Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
FDC Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:  6,000

The Rotunda of St. George is one of the most beautiful and precious Romanesque buildings in Slovakia. It is situated on a hill near the city of Skalica, on the outskirts of an ancient Slavonic fortress. This was the boundary between the Hungarian Kingdom and the Moravian County. The rotunda was built as a little church of the fortress at the beginning of the 13th century, built from sandstone ashlars. Its semicircular sanctum and circular nave still exist in their original form. Some fragments of a mural painting, representing a motif of the legend of St. George fighting the dragon, are preserved from the Gothic period when the rotunda became part of the fortification system. During the Baroque reconstruction, a cupola with a lantern was added, the entrance was modified, and three windows were put in to give the interior more light.
ln the year 1970 the Rotunda of St. George was declared a national cultural monument. Nowadays the Museum of Záhorie has a permanent archaeological exhibition there.


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