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The Pharmacy Museum (drugsrore-mesuem) in Lviv, Ukraine, was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square. It is the working drugstore and museum, the oldest of the existing pharmacies in Lviv. The museum consists of 16 rooms which exhibit antique pharmaceutical appliances, prescriptions, medicines, dishes, a library of pharmacy-related books, and even a reconstructed alchemy workshop.
2. Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Svoboda Avenue in Lviv is the central street of Lviv, one of the most beautiful and prestigious in the city, the epicenter of business and cultural life. The architecture of Svoboda Avenue intertwines the features of secession and eclecticism, which is nourished by the historical styles of classicism, neo-Renaissance and baroque. The total length of the avenue is about 575 meters. On the south side, it is bounded by Mickiewicz Square, and on the north by Horodotska Street, after which Svoboda Avenue turns into Vyacheslav Chornovil Avenue.
3. Lviv National Art Gallery
Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery is the largest art museum in Ukraine, with over 62,000 artworks in its collection, including works of Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Austrian and other European artists. The artwork is currently divided into three major collections, housed in the historic Łoziński and Potocki Palaces, while the Gallery additionally has the charge of fifteen small museums and historical buildings in or close to Lviv.
4. Львівський історичний музей
Lviv Historical Museum is one of the oldest museums in Ukraine, founded in 1893. The fund collection of the museum has more than 370 thousand exhibits. The exposition introduces the history of the city of Lviv and the Galician lands from ancient times to the present day.
5. Никифорові-Епіфанієві Дровняку
Nikifor, also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak 1, was a Lemko naïve painter. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on sheets of paper, pages of notebooks, cigarette cartons, and even on scraps of paper glued together. The topics of his art include self-portraits and panoramas of Krynica, with its spas and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Underestimated for most of his life, in his late days he became famous as a naïve painter.
6. Храм Святих Верховних Апостолів Петра і Павла.(Костел Єзуїтів)
The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is a functioning church of the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC, a cultural heritage monument of national importance, one of the most significant religious buildings and the first monument of Baroque architecture in Lviv on Teatralna Street, built in 1610-1630 by the Italian architect of the Jesuit order Giacomo Briano.
Wikipedia: Гарнізонний храм святих апостолів Петра і Павла (Львів) (UK), Website
7. Церква Святого Андрія Первозваного
The Church of St. Andrew the First-Called is an Orthodox church in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Lviv, built as a Church of the Holy Family of the Roman Catholic Order of Franciscan Reformed. It is included in the Register of Monuments of Ukraine of Local Significance of Lviv under protection No. 1685.
8. Пам'ятник Хвиля національного відродження
The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Lviv is located on Svoboda Avenue in the city center. To the left of the figure of the poet stands the "Wave of National Revival" — a 12-meter symbolic stele with figured bas-reliefs. The height of the figure is 4.45 m. The monument was unveiled on August 24, 1992. All construction work was completed in 1996.
9. Potocki Palace
The Potocki Palace in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria. No cost was spared to make it the grandest nobleman's residence in the city. It is located on the Kopernyka street, 15.
10. Степанові Бандері
The Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv, which stands in front of the Stele of Ukraine Monument, is a statue dedicated to Stepan Bandera, a controversial twentieth century Ukrainian symbol of Nationalism, in the city of Lviv, one of the main cities of Western Ukraine.
11. Lviv Historical Museum
Rynok Square is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. According to archaeological data, the square was planned in the second half of the 13th century, during the reign of Prince Leo I of Galicia. However, there is a long tradition of later dating the emergence of the square, associated with the activities of the Polish king Casimir III the Great.
12. Johann Georg Pinzel Sculpture Museum
The Pinzel Museum is a museum of sacred baroque sculpture by Johann-Georg Pinsel, opened in 1996 in Lviv in the premises of the former Church of the Clares. The museum houses works of art, including sculptures by Pinsel.
Wikipedia: Музей сакральної барокової скульптури Пінзеля (UK)
13. Церква Матері Божої Неустанної Помочі
The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Greek Catholic church in Lviv, at 2 Snizhna Street. Once it was the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Snows. One of the oldest temples in the city, built by German colonists in the XIV century on the site of an older wooden one from the XIII century. The first written mention dates back to 1352. The dedication of churches to Mary of the Snows has its origins in the story of the miracle of the Mother of God in Rome in 358, when she appeared to three people at once. The Mother of God promised to give the childless couple a son, in return the faithful were to build a church. The sign of the construction site of the temple was to be snow.
Wikipedia: Церква Матері Божої Неустанної Помочі (Львів) (UK)
14. Іванові Федорову
Monument to Ivan Fedorov in Lviv is a monument to Ivan Fedorov, who resumed printing on the territory of Ukraine in Lviv, located at 13 Pidvalna Street. It was established on November 26, 1977 in honor of the so-called. "400th Anniversary of Book Printing in Ukrainian Lands". The square around the monument is the largest second-hand book market in Lviv.
15. Museum of Ethnography,Arts &Crafts
The Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the only museum of ethnography in Ukraine subordinated to the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
16. Lviv Beer Museum
Lvivarnya is the only museum and cultural complex of beer history in Ukraine. The logic of the exposition and texts of the excursion is simple: everything interesting about Lviv and beer is collected here. Some of the exhibits are game and interactive: live engraving, shadow theater, 3D hologram. The format combines the features of a modern museum and a cultural space that is ready to adapt to exhibitions, conferences, fashion shows, etc.
17. Рештки Вежі мулярів
The High and Low Walls were laid in the XIV century. and completed by the middle of the fifteenth century. They formed the first two lines of defense of Gothic Lviv and until the completion of the third line of defense in the middle of the XVI century. determined the defense capability of the city. The Inner High Wall, 1700 meters long, spanned the perimeter of the City Center, and the Low Wall stretched between the city gates on three sides of the city.
18. Zamkova
The Lviv High Castle is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. It is currently the highest point in the city, 413 metres (1,355 ft) above sea level. The castle currently stands in ruins.
19. Церква Положення Пояса Пресвятої Богородиці
The Church of the Position of the Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos belongs to the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC. It is located at the intersection of Holovaty and Yavornytskoho streets in the Zaliznychnyi district of Lviv, Syhnivka area. The legal address is ul. Holovatoh, 7-a. Pastor: Fr. Ivan Kovalets (prot.)
Wikipedia: Церква Положення пояса Пресвятої Богородиці (Львів) (UK)
20. Церква святого Іллі
The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah is a Greek Catholic church in Lviv in the area of Kryvchytsi at 113 Kryvchytska Road. The circumstances and date of construction have not been clarified in detail.
21. National Academyc Ukrainian Drama Theatre name after Maria Zan’kovetska
Maria Zankovetska Theatre is a drama theatre in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, at the intersection of Lesya Ukrayinka Street and Prospekt Svobody. The building was erected in the mid 19th century and until World War I was used as a theatre stage and a session hall of the regional council.
22. Бернардинський костел Св. Андрія Первозванного
The Bernardine church and monastery in Lviv, Ukraine, is located in the city's Old Town, south of the market square. It was designed by Paolo Dominici. The monastery along with the church of St. Andrew now belong to the Order of St. Basil the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
23. Регіональний ландшафтний парк «Знесіння»
Znesinnya Regional Landscape Park is the largest park in Lviv, Ukraine. It is located in the north-east part of the city and reachable within a 20-minute walk from the Ratusha and the Rynok Square. Together with the Vysokyi Zamok the hills of Park Znesinnya from Lviv's distinctive city skyline, known from drawings going back to the 16th century.
24. Medova Pechera
Medova Pechera or Medunka is a cave, a geological natural monument of local importance in Ukraine. It is located in the eastern outskirts of Lviv, near Medova Pechera Street. In 2009, the Honey Cave was included in the boundaries of the green zone "Mayorivka" of the Vynnyky Forest Park.
25. Музично-меморіальний музей С. Крушельницької
The Musical and Memorial Museum of Solomiya Krushelnytska is a museum in the city of Lviv, dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding Ukrainian opera singer and teacher Solomiya Krushelnytska. The Music and Memorial Museum of Solomiya Krushelnytska in Lviv was founded in 1988 and inaugurated on October 1, 1989. The museum is located in the former house of the singer, which she acquired in 1903.
Wikipedia: Музично-меморіальний музей Соломії Крушельницької (UK)
26. Glass museum
The first Museum of Glass in Lviv was founded in 1992 by the famous Ukrainian glazier, rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey with the aim of exhibiting the results of international blown glass symposiums. Museum of Glass in the premises of the Bandinelli Palace on pl. Market 2 began its activities in 2006, and the current exposition was renovated and opened on April 19, 2013.
27. Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth
The Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth is a Catholic church located in Lviv, Ukraine between the city's main rail station and the Old Town. It was originally built as a Western Catholic church and today serves as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church.
Wikipedia: Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv (EN), Website
28. Церква свмч. Климентія Шептицького
The Church of the Holy Martyr Klimenty Sheptytsky is a monument of architecture of the seventeenth century in Lviv. The former church at different times bore different names: Saint Catherine, Missionary, Mercy, St. Casimir. It is located in the central part of the city, on Maxim Krivonos Street, 1, near the Carmelite Bosikh Church.
29. Снопківський парк
Snopkivskyi Park is a park (forest park) in the Halych district of Lviv, a monument of landscape art of local importance. The original name of the park was "Friendship". In the 1990s. renamed "Snopkivskyi" after the name of the area of Snopkiv in which it is located. The total area of the park is 35.66 hectares.
30. Храм Пресвятої Трійці
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a wooden church in Lviv, Sykhiv. It is an architectural monument of national importance. The parish belongs to the Sykhiv Protopresbyterate of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
31. Pohulianka Park
Pohulianka is a green area (forest park) in the Lychakiv district of Lviv. The park is located between Pasichna, Washington, Zelena and Pohulianka streets; the northern part of the park borders on the Botanical Garden of Lviv University.
32. Monument to the Victims of Soviet Crimes
The monument to the victims of communist crimes was erected in Lviv on Shashkevych Square, opposite the former "Prison on Lontskoho Street" - the torture chamber of the communist regime. The sculptors are P. Steyer and R. Syvenkyi.
33. Koriniakt Palace (The Royal Town House)
The Korniakt Palace on Market Square in Lviv is a prime example of the royal kamienica, or townhouse. The fabric of the palace is of various dates. It was originally built by Polish architect Piotr Barbon for merchant Konstanty Korniakt, a champion of Greek Orthodoxy and co-founder of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood. Construction of this severely elegant Renaissance palazzo was completed in 1580.
34. Adam Mickiewicz
The Adam Mickiewicz Monument, also known as the Adam Mickiewicz Column,, is a Neo-classical column commemorating the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) located at the Mickiewicz Square in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, and opened in 1904.
35. Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського
The Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum is an artistic and memorial museum institution, a branch of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, the museum's exposition is dedicated to the person and work of the Ukrainian artist Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872–1935).
Wikipedia: Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського (UK), Website
36. Палац Любомирських
The Lviv palace of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski was built in the 1760s to Jan de Witte's design on the site of several older houses. The palace's main façade, featuring decoration by Sebastian Vessinger, is on the Market Square. The two other fronts are considerably less conspicuous.
37. Скнилівський парк
Sknylivskyi Park is a park in the Zaliznychnyi district of the city of Lviv. It is located next to the Pivdennyi market and Lviv airport and is bounded by Sknylivska, Vyhovskoho and Lyubinska streets.
38. The Les Kurbas Theatre
The Les Kurbas Lviv Academic Theater was founded in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynsky and a group of young actors who, like the outstanding Ukrainian director Les Kurbas and his colleagues in 1918, felt the need to create a theater. Oleg Mikhailovich Tsyona has been the artistic director of the theater since 2019.
39. Ivan Franko
The Monument to Ivan Franko in Lviv is a monument to the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko in Lviv, located on Universitetska Street in front of the main building of the Lviv National University. Ivan Franko. It was opened on October 30, 1964. The height of the monument together with the pedestal is 12.5 m, the height of the monument itself is 8 meters.
40. Lviv Arsenal Museum
The City Arsenal is the oldest of three historic arsenal buildings in Lviv, Ukraine. The other two are the Royal Arsenal and Sieniawski Arsenal. It is a rectangular two-storey structure with a miniature octagonal tower on the north side. The building, in its present shape, was erected in 1554–56 above a 14th-century structure of unknown function. It was formerly attached to the city walls and featured a torture chamber. The arsenal building was blown up by the Swedes during the Great Northern War but was subsequently restored. At present, it houses an armoury museum.
41. Львівським броварям
The Monument to Lviv Brewers is a monument to the brewers of Lviv, the city where beer was first brewed in Ukraine. It is located on the even-numbered side of Svoboda Avenue near the Shopkeepers' Tower. It was opened on May 9, 2011 on the City Day. In the same year, the famous French website "Heritage of Watchmaking" recognized the clock on the monument as one of the most original in the world.
42. Hlyniany Gate
Hlyniany Gate is the focal point of the few remaining fortifications in Lviv, Ukraine. It was built in 1618 in the late Renaissance era in Lviv, by Fryderyk Getkant. The designs were created in order to defend the approach from Hlyniany and to defend the part of Lviv from Western European armies. The outer moat and the wooden galleries on the inside are the upshot of a 1970s reconstruction. After you get through the gate, you will reach the Bernardine Monastery, which was built in the 19th century to be defended by the Gate.
43. Hora Leva
Mount Leva is one of the hills of the Davydiv Ridge, a natural monument of local importance. The hill is located near the center of Lviv, between Opryshkivska, Maksyma Kryvonosa and Oleksa Dovbush streets.
44. Церква Стрітення Господнього
The Carmelite Convent was established in Lviv by Jakub Sobieski. Many particulars of its design were patterned after the Roman church of Santa Susanna. Its construction, commenced in 1642, was greatly delayed by the events of the Deluge. The Carmelites departed from the nunnery in 1792. It was later used as a metrology office. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently reconsecrated the church to Christian worship and dedicated it to the Presentation of Our Lord.
45. Бернарденгарден
Bernardengarden is a garden (square) in the central part of Lviv, near the former Bernardine Monastery. Originating as a monastery garden, it is the only green space in the area that was once bounded by the city walls. It is located in an area protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
46. Церква Покрови Пресвятої Богородиці
The Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a functioning brick church in Lviv, in the historical area of Levandivka, owned by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It is characterized by harmonious proportions based on the three-conch plan and a synthesis of modernist morphology and traditionalist semantics, with elements of post-modernity.
Wikipedia: Церква Покрови Пресвятої Богородиці (Львів, Левандівка) (UK)
47. Церква Святого Архистратига Михаїла
The Carmelite Church is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish church in Lviv. The church building was first mentioned in 1634 as the church of a Barefoot Carmelite monastery. In 1748 it was the scene of a notorious scuffle ("monomachia") between the Carmelites and their neighbours, the Capuchins.
48. Adonis
The well with the figure of Adonis or the fountain "Adonis" is one of the four fountains located one on each corner of Rynok Square in Lviv. The figure of Adonis is located on the northeast corner of the square. The fountain has an octagonal bowl, which stands on the pavement — in the center of the star, lined with red and black stone. In the center of the bowl is a statue of a character from ancient mythology: the hero Adonis with a dog and a boar killed by him.
49. Музей історії Львівської залізниці
The Museum of the History of Lviv Railway is a museum institution of Lviv, founded in 1973. At that time, it was the first institution of this type in Ukraine. Since 2001, the museum has been located in the Palace of Science and Technology of the Lviv-West locomotive depot on the street. Fedkovycha 54-56.
50. Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – one of the oldest churches in Lviv, located at the south-west corner of the Lviv market square. The construction of the church began in the place of the older wooden one in the 60s of the fourteenth century, and the construction was carried out in the mid-fifteenth century. The three-nave edifice in the Gothic style is 67 m long and 23 m wide, and in some elements its builders are modelled on St. Mary's Church in Kraków.
51. Tsori Gilead Synagogue
The Tsori Gilod Synagogue is a synagogue in Lviv on Brativ Mikhnovskikh Street. Returned to the Jewish community in 1989, the representatives of the Karlin Hasidic direction who arrived to lead the religious community began to call the synagogue "Beis Aharon ve Yisroel", but for Lviv residents it remained known under its historical name – "Tsori Gilod".
52. Armenian Church
Uspensky Cathedral or Dormition Cathedral – one of the oldest and most valuable historic churches in Lviv, founded by the Armenians in the second half of the fourteenth century, which was almost from the beginning the center of the Armenian bishopric. Rebuilt and expanded many times, it has preserved architectural traces from all stages of its history. An important importance in the history of the cathedral was its expansion and modernization carried out in the first half of the twentieth century, undertaken on the initiative of Archbishop Józef Teofil Teodorowicz. Significant personalities from the world of science and art were involved in the expansion process, including: Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz, Franciszek Mączyński, Józef Mehoffer and Jan Henryk Rosen.
53. Dormition Church
The Assumption (Wallachian) Church in Lviv, also known as the Stavropegic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a functioning brick church in Lviv, built in 1591–1629 according to the plan of Paul the Roman, with the participation of Wojciech Kapinos and Ambrose Prykhylny, commissioned by the Lviv Brotherhood. The parish belongs to the Lviv Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
54. St. George's Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. George in Lviv is a cathedral of the Galician Metropolis of the UGCC, until 1817 at the monastery of the Basilian order, a baroque-rococo monumental architectural ensemble with distinct national features (1744–1762), considered the main shrine of Ukrainian Greek Catholics, before the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.
55. Львівський драматичний театр імені Лесі Українки
Lviv Academic Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka is a city theater in Lviv, located in the historic center of the city at 36 Horodotska Street and named after the famous Ukrainian poetess and playwright Lesya Ukrainka.
Wikipedia: Львівський драматичний театр імені Лесі Українки (UK)
56. Church of St. John the Baptist
The Church of St. John the Baptist is one of the oldest religious buildings in Lviv, located on Staryi Rynok Square, on the street. Uzhhorodska, 1. Together with the Church of St. Nicholas, also built near the foot of the Prince's Hill, and several other religious buildings, it is considered part of the ensemble of the city from the time of the Russian princes. Many legends and hypotheses are associated with the temple, both regarding its foundation and confessional history. The building houses a museum of the ancient history of Lviv, and religious services are held every Sunday.
57. Церква cв. Миколая
The Church of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the Wonderworker, is a religious building in Lviv, a functioning temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, an architectural monument of national importance. Traditionally, it is considered the oldest temple in the city. It is located under Mount Budelnitsa on the street. Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 28 g.
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