🏛 Kremlin Cathedral Square

The Kremlin's main square, with white-stone cathedrals of the 15th–16th centuries and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.

In 1474 the almost finished Dormition Cathedral collapsed after an earthquake, and Ivan III invited Aristotele Fioravanti from Italy.
Fioravanti built the new Dormition Cathedral in four years; Russian princes and tsars were crowned here.
The Archangel Cathedral holds 46 tombs and 54 burials, almost all the Moscow princes and tsars up to Peter I.
The Ivan the Great Bell Tower was erected in 1505 to a design by the Italian Bon Fryazin on the site of the Church of St John Climacus.
The Dormition belfry holds the working Dormition Bell, weighing more than 65 tonnes.
The Palace of Facets, with a throne hall resting on a single pillar, was laid down in 1487 by the Italian master Marco Fryazin.
In 1812 the retreating French blew up the belfry by Ivan the Great; it was restored in 1814–1815.
In 1990 the Kremlin, together with Red Square, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.