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Kitay Gorod
This 13th-century neighbourhood was the first in Moscow to grow up outside the Kremlin walls. While its name means 'China Town' in modern Russian, do not expect anything Chinese - the name derives from an old Russian word meaning 'wattle', for the supports used for the walls that protected the suburb. This is the heart of medieval Moscow and parts of the suburb's walls are visible.
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Pushkinskaya pl
On Pushkinskaya pl, there's the huge Alexander Pushkin Statue, a monument to Russia's national poet, behind which is the gaudy Rossiya cinema and casino complex. Another item of note on the square is Russia's first McDonald's, which saw lines stretching around the square when it opened in 1990. To this day it has the dubious honour of being the biggest McDonald's branch in the world, seating 700 burger munchers at any one time.
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Tverskaya ul
Moscow's main avenue, elegant Tverskaya ul, replete with fashionable shops and costly cafés and restaurants, meanders uphill from Red Sq and continues pretty much in a straight line all the way to St Petersburg. There are also the lovely pedestrianised side streets of Kamergersky per and Stoleshnikov per to walk down.
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ul Varvarka
Look out for the small churches along ul Varvarka, incongruously surrounded by general concrete sprawl. There is the 17th-century Monastery of the Sign, the Church of St Maxim the Blessed (1698) and St Barbara's Church (1795-1804). While the horrendous Hotel Rossiya has been demolished now, Sir Norman Foster is slated to build Europe's tallest skyscraper on the site, to be completed in 2011.
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