The first sanctuary at this place was built in 926-30. This rotunda was destroyed by Prince Spytihněv after 1060 and then he replaced it by a new romanesque basilica. In 1344, King Jan Lucemburský (John of Bohemia or John the Blind) laid the foundation stone for the construction of a Gothic cathedral, and when he fell in battle two years later, his son, King Charles IV, continued the construction. The cathedral was fully completed in 1929, in the year of the 1000th anniversary of the assassination of St. Wenceslas, the Czech patron.
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