48 Sights in Lviv, Ukraine (with Map and Images)

The Ouspensky Cathedral or the Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral – one of the oldest and most valuable historic churches in Lviv, founded by the Armenians in the second half of the 14th century, which was the center of the Armenian bishopric almost from the beginning. Rebuilt and expanded many times, it has preserved architectural traces from all stages of its history. An important factor 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.

Wikipedia: Katedra ormiańska we Lwowie (PL)

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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Храм святого Івана Хрестителя (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Hlyniany Gate (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery (EN)

The Department of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary-one of the oldest churches of Lviv, located at the southwestern corner of the Lviv Market Square. The church began to be built, in the place of an older wooden, in the 1960s, and construction was carried out in the mid -15th century. The three -nave building in the Gothic style is 67 m long and a width of 23 m and in some elements the modeling of its builders at the St. Mary's Church in Krakow is noticeable.

Wikipedia: Katedra Łacińska we Lwowie (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Оборонні мури Львова (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Nikifor (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Музей пивоваріння (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Успенська церква (Львів) (UK)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник львівським броварям (UK)

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows in Lviv is located at 2 Śnieżna Street. After 1945 it was closed and used as a warehouse and then as a Museum of Photography. In the mid-1990s, after Ukraine regained its independence, the church was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and is run by the Redemptorist Fathers.

Wikipedia: Kościół Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej we Lwowie (PL)

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

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".

Wikipedia: Синагога Цорі Ґілод (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Іванові Франку (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Znesinnia Regional Landscape Park (EN)

The Church of the Hieromartyr Clement Sheptytsky is an architectural monument of the XVII century in Lviv. The former church at different times had different names: St. Catherine, missionary, mercy, St. Casimir. Located in the central part of the city, on Maksym Kryvonosa Street, 1, the Church of the Discalced Carmelites is located nearby.

Wikipedia: Костел святого Казимира (Львів) (UK), Website

The Church of St. Sophia, the Wisdom of God, is a Greek Catholic church in the Sykhiv district of the city of Lviv. It is located on the territory of the UCU campus at the address: Lviv, pl. Sophia the Wisdom of God, 1, near Stryiskyi Park and the building of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine in the Lviv region.

Wikipedia: Церква святої Софії — Премудрості Божої (Львів) (UK), Website

Nicholas, Archbishop Mir of Lycian, Miracle worker - a cult building in Lviv, the current temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a monument of architecture of national importance. Traditionally, the most ancient temple of the city is considered. It is located under the mountain of Budelnytsia on the street. Bohdan Khmelnitsky, 28 g.

Wikipedia: Церква святого Миколая (Львів) (UK)

The Stanislav Liudkevych Memorial Museum-Garden is an educational and cultural institution in Lviv, which is a department of the Solomiya Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv. It was opened in 1995 in the villa of Stanislav Lyudkevych on the initiative of Zenovia Konstantinovna Stunder, the composer's wife.

Wikipedia: Меморіальний музей Станіслава Людкевича (UK), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Снопківський парк (UK)

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 Roman Catholic church of St. Andrew, today the Greek Catholic church of St. Andrew, now belong to the Order of St. Basil the Great.

Wikipedia: Bernardine Church, Lviv (EN)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Les Kurbas Theatre (EN)

The Museum of the History of the Lviv Railway is a museum established in Lviv in 1973. At that time, it was the first facility of its kind in Ukraine. Others followed. Since 2001, the museum has been located in the House of Science and Technology of the Lviv-West Locomotive Depot at 54-56 Fedkowicza Street.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Historii Kolei Lwowskiej (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Церква святого Андрія Первозваного (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Бернарденгарден (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Медова печера (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Maria Zankovetska Theatre (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Lubomirski Palace, Lviv (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Львівський історичний музей (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Музей етнографії та художнього промислу (UK)

The National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, or the Prison on Łącki (Street) is a former detention center in Lviv, Ukraine, that throughout the 20th century was primarily used as a political prison of the Soviet and Nazi regimes.

Wikipedia: Prison on Łącki Street (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Lviv (EN)

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

The Botanical Garden of the National Forestry University is a botanical garden in Lviv, a research, educational, and environmental institution of national importance. The only botanical garden in Ukraine with a forestry and botanical direction.

Wikipedia: Ботанічний сад Львівського лісотехнічного інституту (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Церква Пресвятої Трійці (Сихів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Парк «Погулянка» (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Lviv High Castle (EN)

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)

The Botanical Garden of the Lviv National University of the Franko's Educational and Research Institution at the I. Franko National Research Institution is part of the Nature Reserve Fund as an object of national importance.

Wikipedia: Ботанічний сад Львівського університету (UK), Website

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)

The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles and their allies who died in Lwów during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Soviet War between 1918 and 1920.

Wikipedia: Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (EN)

The monument to Mykhailo Hrushevsky in Lviv is a monument to the Ukrainian historian, politician and public figure Mykhailo Serhiyovych Hrushevsky. It is located in the central part of the city on Shevchenko Avenue.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Михайлові Грушевському (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Гора Лева (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Церква святого Іллі (Львів) (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Скнилівський парк (UK)