The Calling Cards of Wealthy Citizens

The city of St.Gallen is known for its many bay windows. In the Old Town alone, there are over a hundred of these projections on building facades. Since the Middle Ages, they have served to expand living space on upper floors. St.Gallen’s bay windows are often elaborately designed and decorated, as they were also meant to represent the wealth of the residents and each tells its own story. A roughly 30-minute guided tour through St.Gallen’s Old Town, focusing on the bay windows in Spiesergasse and Kugelgasse, will get you in the mood to draw your own bay window.