The Kremlin is a huge area with many churches, buildings and historical landmarks. It was founded in the 12th century and is now the spiritual, political and historical heart of Moscow.
If you want to see it all, you will need quite a bit of time! I have visited twice and I am sure I have not even seen half of it!
Landmarks are:
- The State Armory (the oldest museum in Russia and home to a collection of Imperial artifacts)
- The Cathedral of the Assumption, which is the oldest of the Kremlin's cathedrals
- The Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel
- The Cathedral of the Annunciation
- Ivan the Great Bell Tower
- The Church of the Deposition of the Robe
- The Great Kremlin Palace
- The State Kremlin Palace (a modernist concrete and glass structure built in the 1960s to host Communist Party congresses)
- The Patriarch's Palace
- The Faceted Palace
- The Terem Palace
- The Arsenal
- The Presidium
- The Senate Building (which in 1991 became the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation)
- The Tsar Bell and Tsar Canon (the bell has never been rung and the canon has never been fired!!!)
