Bolshaya Konyushennaya street begins at Nevskiy Prospect opposite to the building with three-store high shop-windows: since 1910s Mertens house has always been a place where clothes are sold - first it was a fur coats store (the coats were produced here as well), then it became a model house, now it hosts Zara store. As is customary, the Spanish holding treats the architecture and the interior of the building very carefully and preserves the outer and the inner adornments. At the beginning of the street you can usually see the musicians playing. However the locals rarely enter the street from this side: on both sides you can enter the promenade from the walk-through yards. The street is connected to Malaya Konyushennaya street by a number of ways leading through the German district. The Palace Square can be reached from here through the yards of the Capella the entrance to which is right behind the same-name signboard (into the arch next to the signboard). The street is very pleasant to walk - in the center it is divided by a walking promenade. Everywhere along the promenade and on the sides there are various points of attraction: Pyshechnaya (crumpets bakery), Bulthaup design gallery, Leningrad trade house (DLT), Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Peter Kirche.