Corner Arsenal Tower

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Corner Arsenal Tower

It is located on the corner of the Alexander Garden and Red Square. From a distance, the tower looks round, but if you get closer, it turns out that it has 16 faces. Once she was called Sobakina, by the name of a person who lived nearby. But in the XVIII century, the Arsenal building was erected next to it, and the tower was renamed. There is a well in her dungeon. It is more than 500 years old. Previously, there was an underground passage from the Arsenal Tower to the Neglinnaya River. The height of the tower is slightly more than 60 m.