Street & district
Podgornaya Street
- Hours
- No fixed visitor hours for the street are listed.
- How to visit
- Krepostnaya Street is a historic tourist street in the Old Town; some sections are pedestrianized. Payment is required only for selected museums and towers along the route.
- Hours
- Free entry
- Hours
- About 30 min
Why it is worth the detour
Known historically as Bishop's Street, this picturesque route preserves seventeenth-century merchant houses and the irregular line of medieval Vyborg.
Podgornaya Street is one of the oldest streets in Vyborg, featuring seventeenth-century architecture and a medieval street layout. It offers a glimpse into the city's rich history and architectural heritage.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
50 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.
50 m
Clock Tower
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))
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.
100 m
Hackman and Co House in Vyborg
The Hackman and Co House, also known as the 'Granite Palace', is a notable example of national romantic architecture in Vyborg.
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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.