Rotunda of Saint Pantaleon, Romanesque rotunda near Pustiměř, Czech Republic

The Rotunda of Saint Pantaleon survives as a fragment: part of the nave and the apse of a Romanesque circular church, standing above the Chapel of Saint Anne. At full capacity it could hold up to 200 people, making it the largest structure of its kind in Bohemia and Moravia at the time.

This rotunda was built in the first half of the 12th century and was at that time the largest structure of its type in Bohemia and Moravia. It was later repurposed as a monastery church before being deconsecrated during the Josephinian reforms.

The unusual dedication to Saint Pantaleon, a patron of healers, is linked to Bishop Jindřich Zdík, who vowed to dedicate a church to the saint after recovering from a severe illness; a letter of Pope Innocent IV from 1247 is the late testimony to this. Bishop Jan VII. Volko, founder of the Pustiměř monastery in 1340, was buried in the rotunda while it served as the monastery church.

The ruins are located at a fixed position in the Pustiměř municipality and are accessible via marked paths. Visitors should wear sturdy footwear since the terrain can be uneven and the remaining structures are fragile.

Six graves found close to the church support a dating before 1085, to the reign of Prince Vratislav II. The first reliable written record of the rotunda, however, dates only from 1232.