47 Sights in Lviv, Ukraine (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in Lviv1. Armenian Church
The Stepieński Council or the Council of the Dormition of the Mother of God - one of the oldest and most valuable historic churches of Lviv, founded by Armenians in the second half of the fourteenth century, which was almost from the beginning of the Armenian bishopric. Rebuilt and expanded many times, he retained architectural traces from all stages of his history. Its expansion and modernization carried out in the first half of the 20th century, undertaken on the initiative of Archbishop Józef Teofil Teodorowicz, was important in the history of the cathedral. 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.
2. Pharmacy Museum
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.
3. 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.
4. 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 during 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.
5. Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the oldest churches in Lviv, located at the south-western 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 middle of the fifteenth century. The three-nave edifice in the Gothic style is 67 m long and 23 m wide, and in some elements it is noticeable that its builders were inspired by St. Mary's Church in Krakow.
6. 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 Lozynsky and Potocki Palaces, while the Gallery additionally has the charge of fifteen small museums and historical buildings in or close to Lviv.
7. Рештки Вежі мулярів
The High and Low Walls were laid in the XIV century. and completed by the middle of the XV century. They formed the first two lines of defense of Gothic Lviv and until the end of the third line of defense in the middle of the XVI century determined the defense capability of the city. The inner High Wall of 1700 meters long covered the perimeter of the city, and the Low Wall stretched between the city gates on three sides of the city.
8. Lviv Beer Museum
Lvivarna is the only museum and cultural complex of beer history in Ukraine. The logic of the exposition and the guide texts is simple: everything is interesting here, concerning Lviv and beer. Some of the exhibits are game and interactive: live engraving, shadow theater, 3D-hologram. The format combines the signs of the modern museum and cultural space, ready to adjust to exhibitions, conferences, fashion shows and more.
9. Музично-меморіальний музей С. Крушельницької
Muzic-memorial museum of Soglomiya Krushelnitskaya-a museum in the city of Lviv, dedicated to the life and work of the prominent Ukrainian opera singer and teacher of Solomiya Krushelnytska. The Music and Memorial Museum of Solomiya Krushelnytska in Lviv was founded in 1988, and solemnly opened on October 1, 1989. The museum is located in the former singer's house, which she purchased in 1903.
Wikipedia: Музично-меморіальний музей Соломії Крушельницької (UK)
10. 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.
11. Tsori Gilead Synagogue
Tsori Gilod is an active synagogue in Lviv on Mikhnovsky Brothers Street. Returned to the Jewish community in 1989, the representatives of the Carlinsky Hasidian direction arrived to manage the religious community were called the synagogue "Bace Aaron Ve-Isrole", to emphasize the synagogue's belonging to their institutions, but for Lviv it remained known under its historical name. .
12. Музей Романа Шухевича
The Museum of the General of the UPA Roman Shukhevych Department of the Lviv Historical Museum in the village of Belogorsh. This Memorial Museum is dedicated to the figure of the UPA Chief Commander Roman Shukhevych, is located in the house where he died. The museum was opened on October 23, 2001 at the expense of the UPA soldiers in the United States named after Taras Chuprynka.
13. Церква Матері Божої Неустанної Помочі
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.
14. Храм Святих Верховних Апостолів Петра і Павла.(Костел Єзуїтів)
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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
15. Львівським броварям
The monument to Lviv Brovary is a monument to the Brovary of Lviv, a city where beer was first in Ukraine. It is located on the steam room of Svoboda Avenue near the Kramariv Tower. Open on May 9, 2011 on City Day. In the same year, the famous French website "Inheritance of Cloutery" recognized the clock on the monument one of the most original in the world.
16. Церква cв. Миколая
Nicholas St. 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.
17. 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.
18. Dormition Church
The Ospenen (Voloska) Church in Lviv, also the Stavropigian Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a current stone church in Lviv, built in 1591-1629 according to Pavel Romanina's plan, with the participation of Wojciech Kapinos and Amvrosia of the Brotherhood. The parish belongs to the Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
19. 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.
20. Ivan Franko
Monument to Ivan Franko in Lviv is a monument to the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko in Lviv, located on the University Street in front of the main building of Lviv National University. Ivan Franko. Opened 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.
21. Hlyniany Gate
Hlyniany Gate is the focal point of the few remaining fortifications in Lviv, Ukraine. It was built in 1618 to Fryderyk Getkant's designs in order to defend the approach from Hlyniany. The outer moat and the wooden galleries on the inside are the upshot of a 1970s reconstruction. Just beyond the gate is the Bernardine monastery.
22. Меморіальний музей С. Людкевича
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
23. St. Sofia Greek Catholic Church
Church of St. Sofia - Wisdom of God - Greek Catholic church in Sykhiv district of Lviv. Located on the territory of the student town of UCU at the address: m. Lviv, square Sofia of the Wisdom of God, 1, near Stryis Park and the building of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine in Lviv region.
Wikipedia: Церква святої Софії — Премудрості Божої (Львів) (UK), Website
24. 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.
25. Музей історії Львівської залізниці
Museum of the History of Lviv Railway – a museum facility established in Lviv in 1973. At that time it was the first such facility in Ukraine. Then another one was created. Since 2001, the museum has been located in the House of Science and Technology of Lviv-west Locomotivownia at ul. Fedkowicz 54-56.
26. Церква Положення Пояса Пресвятої Богородиці
Church of the Regulations of the Belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary belongs to the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC. It is located at the intersection of the streets of Holovaty and Yavornytsky in the Zaliznychnyi district of Lviv, Signivka. Legal address — st. Chairman, 7th. Parish: o. Kovalets Ivan (prot.)
Wikipedia: Церква Положення пояса Пресвятої Богородиці (Львів) (UK)
27. Церква Святого Андрія Первозваного
Tsegrkva of the Holy Andriya Pirvozovana-the Orthodox Church in the Shevchenkivskyi District of Lviv, built as the Church of the Holy Family of the Roman Catholic Order of the Franciscan Reform. Entered in the Register of Monuments of Ukraine of local importance of Lviv under security No. 1685.
28. Снопківський парк
Snopkivsky Park-Park (Forest Park) in the Halych district of Lviv, a monument of landscape art of local importance. The initial name of the park is "Friendship". In the 1990s, he was renamed Snopkivsky by the name of the sheets in which it is located. The total area of the park is 35.66 ha.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. Бернарденгарден
Bernardengarden is a garden (square) in the central part of Lviv, near the former Bernardine Monastery. It emerged as a monastery garden, is the only green space in the territory that was once limited by city walls. It is located in the UNESCO protected area as a world heritage.
32. 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. 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.
33. 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.
34. Medova Pechera
Honey cave or honeycomb is a cave, a geological monument of local importance in Ukraine. It is located in the eastern outskirts of Lviv, at the Honey Cave Street. In 2009, the honey cave was included in the Green Zone "Mayorivka" of the Vinnytsia Forest Park.
35. National Museum & Memorial to the Victims of Occupation
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.
36. 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.
37. Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського
The Bondomorial Museum of Oleksi Novakivsky-Museum Institution of Art and Memorial Direction, Branch of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, exposition of the museum is devoted to the person and work of Ukrainian artist Oleksa Novakivsky (1872-193.
Wikipedia: Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського (UK), Website
38. Pohulianka Park
Lisopark "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.
39. 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
40. 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.
41. Львівський драматичний театр імені Лесі Українки
The Lviv Academic Drama Taitre Immeni Lesya Ukrainian - the City Theater in Lviv, located in the historic center of the city on Gorodotskaya Street, 36 and named after the famous Ukrainian poet and playwright Lesya Ukrainka.
Wikipedia: Львівський драматичний театр імені Лесі Українки (UK)
42. Ботанічний сад ЛНУ ім. І. Франка
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
43. Museum of Ethnography,Arts &Crafts
The Museum of Ethnography and the Kutom of the Institute of the NAS of Ukraine is the only museum of ethnography in Ukraine, which is subordinated to the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
44. Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów
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.
45. Botanical Garden of Lviv Forestry Institute
The Botanical Garden of the National Forestry University-the Botanical Garden in Lviv, research, educational and environmental institution of national importance. The only botanical and botanical Botanical Botanic.
Wikipedia: Ботанічний сад Львівського лісотехнічного інституту (UK)
46. Hora Leva
Mountain Lev is one of the hills of the Davida strand, a monument of nature of local importance. The hill is located not far from the center of Lviv, between Opryshkivska streets, Maxim Krivonos and Oleksa Dovbush.
47. Johann Georg Pinzel Sculpture Museum
Pinzel Museum is a Museum of Sacral Baroque Sculpture by Johann-George Pinzel, opened in 1996 in Lviv in the premises of the former Chryris Church. The museum contains works of art, including Pinzel sculptures.
Wikipedia: Музей сакральної барокової скульптури Пінзеля (UK)
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