ART+Place

ART PLACE
This section its dedicated to the place our readings selected by internet, vote for you favorite one and enjoy it in the next publication!

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The Red Square

Is one of the most famous squares of the world because of its historical charge. It’s placed in Moscow in Russia.

The name “Red Square” came about the translation of a Russian word that means red or beautiful, and was applied the beautiful meaning. Was built around 17th Century and it has around 330 m long and 70 m wide. There was the place of military acts and the Russian’s Tsars coronations. It’s surrounded by: The Historical Museum The Iberian Gate and Chapel The Kazan Cathedral The GUM (Main Department Store) The Place of Skulls (it’s a stone plataform made for the Tsar Presentations and religious activities) The Statue of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky The Lenin’s Mausoleum The Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed The Kremlin Walls and The Royal Citadel (Kremlin means Castle, those towers and walls surrounded the Royal citadel)

The kremlin and the Royal citadel were built by Gran Prince Ivan III appears to be built between 1485 and 1495, was designed by Italian architects, it contents the architectural monuments of XIV-XX centuries, it has 20 towers each one with its own name, 7 Cathedrals located in the center of the Complex and two outside the walls, has 4 palaces and 2 Squares and three Gardens it also has 5 monuments three of them outside

The Kremlin served as the Tsar residence until the October revolution ended with the Romanov Dynasty in 1917, since then served as the presidential residence.