Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Lviv, Ukraine
Legend
Guided Free Walking Tours
Book free guided walking tours in Lviv.
Guided Sightseeing Tours
Book guided sightseeing tours and activities in Lviv.
Tour Facts
4.7 km
104 m
Explore Lviv in Ukraine with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in LvivIndividual Sights in LvivSight 1: 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
Sight 2: 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".
Sight 3: Lviv State Circus
Lviv State Circus is a circus in Lviv at 83 Horodotska Street, at the foot of St. George's Hill.
Sight 4: 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)
Sight 5: House of Scientists
The House of Scientists is a former National Casino built by Fellner & Helmer in 1897-1898 by Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.
Sight 6: Перший український театр для дітей та юнацтва
The first academic Ukrainian theater for children and adolescents is the first theater in Ukraine and the world, designed for a children's and youth audience. Founded in 1920 in Kharkiv, since 1944 relocated to Lviv
Wikipedia: Перший український театр для дітей та юнацтва (UK), Website
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: 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
Sight 11: Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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.
Sight 12: Chapel of the Boim family
Book Ticket*The Boim Chapel is a monument of religious architecture in Cathedral Square, Lviv, Ukraine. It was constructed from 1609 to 1615 and is part of Lviv's Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: Armenian Church
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.
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: Lyal'kovyj Theatre
The Lviv Academic Regional Taitr Lyalek - Regional Puppet Theater, located in the center of Lviv at Sq. Danylo Halytsky, building. 1.
Sight 18: 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.
Sight 19: Костел Усіх Святих і монастир бенедиктинок
The Church of All Saints and the Benedictine monastic monastery is a monument of Renaissance architecture in Lviv. Security numbers 369/0, 369/1.
Share
Disclaimer Please be aware of your surroundings and do not enter private property. We are not liable for any damages that occur during the tours.
GPX-Download For navigation apps and GPS devices you can download the tour as a GPX file.