RED SQUARE, Introduction

Hi, My name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World, Red Square.

700 meters long and 130 meters wide, Red Square, which separates the Kremlin from the city center, is the most important square in Moscow and all of Russia, not only for its historical significance, but also because the main streets of Moscow begin here and then become highways that connect Moscow to the whole country.

You should know that the name "red square" does not come from the fact that the buildings around it are mostly red, or from the connection between the color red and the communist ideology, but from the Russian adjective krasnaja, which means both "red" and "beautiful" and that was originally used to mean "beautiful" referring to St. Basil’s Cathedral, and later extended to the square. Believe it or not... before that, the square was called Požar, or "burnt place", because the wooden buildings facing it were easily subject to fire....