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Château de Nohant, home of the famous French writer George Sand (1804-1876), was built in 1760 on the site of a 14th century castle. Now a museum, it was home for the election of the author, in an area she particularly loved. Nohant and its inhabitants was indeed a great source of inspiration.
Today you can visit in the beautiful park and discover building's living quarters including the tiny boudoir where Georges Sand wrote his first literary efforts.
The Chapel of St. Martin is the only completely preserved Romanesque building in Vyšehrad and one of the oldest in Prague. In was built around 1100 in the eastern part of the fortified outer ward. Between 1100 and 1300, the Rotrunda was surrounded by a cemetery. The building survived the Hussite Wars and was used as the municipal prison of the Town of the Vyšehrad Hill.
During the Thirty Years’ War, it was used as gunpowder storage, from 1700 to 1750, it was renovated and reconsecrated. In 1784, the chapel was closed passed to the military management which kept using it as a warehouseand a cannon-amunition manufacturing facility. In 1841, it was meant to be demolished to give way to the construction of a new road through Vyšehrad. Eventually, only the original western entrance was walled up and replaced with a new one in the sountren side. The dilapidating Rotunda subsequently served as a shelter for the poor.