Rotunda

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Rotunda may refer to:

• Rotunda (architecture), any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome
• Rotunda (script), a specific medieval blackletter script
• Pentagonal rotunda, a polyhedral solid formed from half an icosidodecahedron

Places:

• Rotunda of St. George, built as the "Tomb of Galerius" in Thessaloniki in 306 AD
• Rotunda Hospital, built as the "New Lying-In Hospital" in 1757 in Dublin, Ireland
• Rotunda Museum, museum of geology in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
• The Rotunda (University of Virginia)
• The D'Alemberte Rotunda Florida State University, a structural and architectural pedagogue that is part of FSU's College of Law and center of it's Village Green
• Rotunda (Birmingham), built as "The Rotunda" in 1964
• U.S. Capitol Rotunda, in Washington, D.C.
• Rotunda, Olt, a commune in Olt County, Romania
• The Rotunda (Woolwich), a John Nash building in Woolwich, London, UK, affiliated to Firepower, the Royal Artillery museum
• The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens, London, a now demolished but once fashionable social meeting place and function room