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Kutafia Tower (Kutaf'ia Bashnia)

Kremlin's only surviving barbican

Aleksandrovskiy Sad
(on the western side of the Kremlin walls)
Moskva, Moscow
103

Neighborhood: Red Square and the Kremlin

Nearest Train: Aleksandrovskii Sad, Biblioteka imeni Lenina, Arbatskaia

Phone: +7 495 202 5208/ +7 495 202 3776
Fax: +7 495 921 6323
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Architect Aloisio da Carezano from Milan built this tower in 1516 to protect the far end of the Kremlin's main bridgeway across the River Neglinnaia. The construction in 1685 of a crowning wall with big, open windows brought the tower to its present-day height of 13.5 meters. The width remains a little greater though, giving the whole brick-and-limestone structure its characteristic squat look kutaf'ia means, 'obese woman' in Russian dialects.

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