Location: Vyborg
Top Things to do in Vyborg
The 10 Best Free Things to do in Vyborg, Northwestern District
Vyborg is a small, picturesque resort town a short train ride away from St. Petersburg. Medieval fortifications rise above the small peninsula on which the town is set, and the whole place can be seen by foot in a few hours. The highlight is Vyborg Castle, originally built by the Swedish, then captured and recaptured by the Russians and the Finnish. It has a great view of the town.
Restaurants in Vyborg
1. Alvar Aalto Library
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5.0 based on 163 reviews
2. Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy Cathedral
3. Salon Torgils
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5.0 based on 10 reviews
vyborg_antik_vintage Together with antique and vintage items on sale second-hand books and local history publications about Vyborg and its surroundings. Here is a club of Vyborg history fans, where you can take a cup coffee, see these rare editions and chat.
4. Monument to the Vyborg Tram
5. Mannerheim Line
6. Byurger Estate
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4.5 based on 109 reviews
7. Statue of Torkel Knutsson
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4.5 based on 142 reviews
Reviewed By sergeyk147
First it was the last Russian emperor Nicolas II who showed moral courage to bless a statue of a Swede on Russian soil. It strongly resembles a monument to Birger Jarl aka Birger Magnusson, a prominent Swedish statesman and warrior, on Riddarholmen island in Stockholm. It's not a co-incidence - in 1884 Finnish architect Johan Jacob Ahrenberg who initiated the project specifically asked Carl Wilhelm Vallgren, a Finnish sculptor (both were subjects of Russian empire 'coz Finland was then part of it) that Torkel Knutsson looked somewhat like his famous compatriot. When a plaster version was ready and the gentlemen turned to Russian authorities for approval local governor strongly opposed the very idea of it but in the end of the day in 1908 founder of Vyborg took his place in the center of the city. It stood there till 1948 but then Soviet communists decided that enough was enough and toppled it - at night, like villains always do. They put a rope around his body and pulled it down - only his feet kept standing on the plinth. By incredible play of Doom the statue has not been destroyed but dragged into some barn and forgotten there. It was found quite by chance in 1975 but returned to its present place only in 1993, after the fall of those obscurantists. This time, hopefully, for good. Gorgeous.
