Church of Saint Michael, Romanesque church in Staré Město, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Michael is a hall-type late Romanesque church with a long rectangular presbytery, built on a slightly raised terrace above the old bed of the Morava River in the Na Dědině area, surrounded by the Staré Město cemetery. Its walls contain 106 reused Roman bricks, and the church was vaulted later and rebuilt in 1734.

Cistercian monks from Velehrad built the hall church in the first half of the 13th century on the site of a 9th-century Great Moravian rotunda, reusing its Roman bricks. Swedish troops destroyed it in 1645; it was restored and rebuilt in 1734, the form it keeps today.

Until the end of the 16th century the church served as parish church even for Uherské Hradiště, whose Church of Saint George was its filial church. Near the church stands the hexagonal Chapel of Saint John, built with archaic elements and without Roman bricks.

The church stands on a slightly raised terrace above the old bed of the Morava river at Na Dědině, surrounded by the Staré Město cemetery. The hexagonal Chapel of St John, built with older masonry and without Roman bricks, stands nearby and is worth locating on the same visit.

Beneath the church floor, surveys found several intact Great Moravian graves and the foundations of a 9th-century rotunda built with Roman bricks, many stamped with the mark of the XIV legion from Carnuntum. About 1,000 such bricks and fragments have been found around the church and the nearby Chapel of St John.