The ramparts are located at the southern end of Kauppiaankatu, opposite Mustasaari Church. The road leading up to the ramparts is steep, so it is not suitable for everyone to climb. You can park your car at the parking lot of Mustasaari Church or at the Museum of Old Vaasa. The ramparts now serve as a green space that offers splendid views of the surrounding area. The vegetation creates calm and sheltered places to sit on the top of the ramparts. Mustasaari Church is visible from the ramparts at the end of the tree-lined path to the east; to the west and south there is an agricultural landscape, with Kuninkaankartano Park in the middle.
The mounds of Old Vaasa, called the ramparts of Old Vaasa, are a gently sloping hill on which Korsholma Castle was built in the 14th century and the governor’s residence in the 18th century. Below the ramparts, on the Hovioikeudenpuistikko side, lay in the 18th–19th centuries the garden of the governor of Korsholma, where mainly useful plants were cultivated in orderly beds. Today there are fields on the site of the former garden. In 1892 a planting plan for the ramparts was commissioned from gardener Willy Nykopp, but only a terrace was realised, on which a granite memorial cross designed by architect Magnus Schjerfbeck was erected in 1894. The stone cross, still on the ramparts, was erected in memory of crusaders of old times.
The ramparts are a good outdoor destination throughout the growing season. In winter, it is worth climbing to the ramparts along paths made by other walkers, as the views are worth the climb. From the top of the hill you can no longer see over Old Vaasa as in the wash drawing by drawing instructor J.G. Hedman from 1851, when the hill was still treeless. Among the vegetation on the ramparts the most striking are the old noble deciduous trees and non-native conifers.