Architecture

Clock Tower

Address: Krepostnaya Ulitsa, 5A
Area: Vyborg, Russia
Districts: Castle Town

Mon: Closed
Tue: Closed
Wed: Closed
Thu: Closed
Fri: Closed
Sat: 11:30–16:30
Sun: 11:30–16:30
Hours: Weekends only: first ascent at 11:30, last ascent at 16:30; six ascents per day.
Price: Ticket with guided service: RUB 600 for adults, pensioners and children under 16; RUB 1,200 for foreign citizens.
How to visit: Visits include guided service. Admission is for visitors aged 12 and over; ascents take place in scheduled sessions.
Hours: Ticket required
Hours: About 20 min

Clock Tower — Катерина Фёдорова, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why it is worth the detour

The tower began as the bell tower of Vyborg's cathedral, rising within the fortified town whose churches and houses stood behind the wall attacked in 1495. It survived the transfer of Vyborg from Sweden to Russia after the 1710 siege, later becoming both a clock tower and a fire lookout while the adjoining cathedral fell into ruin. ([vyborgmuseum.org](https://vyborgmuseum.org/chasovaja-bashnja?utm_source=openai))

The Clock Tower in Vyborg started as a bell tower for the cathedral and later served as a fire lookout. It is a historical landmark that survived the city's transfer from Sweden to Russia in 1710.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

50 m
Wahl House
This merchant compound housed the offices of Paul Wahl and Company, one of nineteenth-century Vyborg’s important trading firms. Its last family owner, Olympic sailor Harry Wahl, filled the house with one of Finland’s greatest collections of stringed instruments, including violins by Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati.
50 m
Old Vyborg Cathedral
Ruins of a historic cathedral with a rich multi-denominational past.
50 m
Podgornaya Street
Known historically as Bishop's Street, this picturesque route preserves seventeenth-century merchant houses and the irregular line of medieval Vyborg.
100 m
St. Hyacinth's Church, Vyborg
One of the oldest stone residential buildings in Vyborg, now housing historical exhibitions.
100 m
Borchardt House
German merchant Anton Borchardt built this stone house in 1653, with a wine cellar where drinking and business were deliberately mixed: agreements with town councillors were traditionally sealed over wine or with a liquid gift. The restored building preserves the memory of a port city whose German, Swedish and Finnish-speaking merchants negotiated as enthusiastically as they drank.
100 m
Vyborg Town Hall
A historic building in Vyborg, traditionally used for local governance.