Friday 14 August 2015

The Attraction sites are: 1- Red Square

1- Red Square

Red Square is a City Square(open public space) in Moscow,Russia. It separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as- Kitai-Gorod.

The name 'Red Square' does not originate from the pigment of the surrounding bricks, nor from the link between the colour red and communism. Rather, the name came about because the Russian word 'Krasnaya', which now means "red," originally meant "beautiful"; in this meaning, it was applied to a small area between St Basil's Cathedral, the Spassky Tower of the Kremlin, and the Lobnoe Mesto(place of execution), and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich officially extended the name to the suare, which had previously been called Pozhar, or "burnt-out place", in refernce to the fact that several buildings had to be burned down to make place for the square.

Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow, because Moscow's major streets- which connect to Russia's major highways- originate from the square.

Address- Red Square, Moscow, Russia. 

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