Architecture
Five Balconies Crossing
- Hours
- No visiting hours are specified for this open intersection.
- How to visit
- The landmark is at the intersection of Krepostnaya and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets and can be viewed from the street. Access to the interiors of the individual buildings is not described.
- Hours
- About 10 min
Why it is worth the detour
A local story about neighbours talking across the balconies. The corner houses keep the restored balconies, including the Tath house at Krepostnaya 17.
Old-town corner of Krepostnaya and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets, known for the gossip-from-the-balconies story.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
100 m
Citizen's House
This tiny tower-shaped dwelling, concealed inside a courtyard, is one of Vyborg's rare medieval private “fortresses.” Its thick boulder walls and cellar show how an urban household could resemble a defensive post in a frontier city repeatedly threatened by assault. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%28%D0%92%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%29?utm_source=openai))
100 m
Bank of the Nordic Countries Building
Its original Swedish and Finnish inscriptions advertised the multilingual commercial world of imperial-era Vyborg, while the banking hall was designed almost like a temple with the vault occupying the place of an altar. Since 1945 the former financial palace has housed a public library, turning a monument to private capital into a Soviet and Russian repository of books.
150 m
Wise Owl at Monetny Dvorik
A small sculpture on a stone that once belonged to the town wall, at Titova 4A.
Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.