Senatskaya (Senate) Tower (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Kreml
 tower, fortification, listed building / architectural heritage, 15th century construction
The Senatskaya Tower (Сенатская башня in Russian) was built in 1491 by an architect Pietro Antonio Solari and was purely defensive in nature: it guarded the Kremlin on the Red Square side. For a long time it remained nameless. It was only in 1787, after architect Matvei Kazakov constructed the Senate on the Kremlin’s territory, that it was given its present name. The dome of the Senate can be seen from Red Square. Inside the central part of the tower there are three tiers of vaulted chambers. In 1860, the flat tower was topped with a stone tent roof crowned, in turn, with a gilt weather vane. Its height is 14.3 m.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_towers#Senatskaya
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Coordinates:   55°45'12"N   37°37'10"E
This article was last modified 14 years ago