Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Lviv, Ukraine

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.

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Freedom 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 intertwined the features of Secession and eclecticism, 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, along which Svoboda Avenue turns into Vyacheslav Chornovol Avenue.

Wikipedia: Проспект Свободи (Львів) (UK), Website

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.

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The Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, just north of the market square.

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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv or the Armenian Cathedral (Ukrainian: Вірменський кафедральний собор Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці) is one of the oldest and most valuable historic churches in Lviv, founded by the Armenians in the second half of the 14th century, and 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.

Wikipedia: Katedra ormiańska we Lwowie (PL)

Lviv Academic Regional Puppet Theater is a regional puppet theater located in the center of Lviv at pl. Danila Halytskogo, bud. 1.

Wikipedia: Львівський обласний театр ляльок (UK)

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)

The Church of All Saints and the Benedictine Monastery is a monument of Renaissance architecture in Lviv. Security numbers 369/0, 369/1.

Wikipedia: Костел і монастир бенедиктинок (Львів) (UK)

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.

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The first Glass Museum in Lviv was founded in 1992 by the famous Ukrainian glazier, rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey, in order to exhibit the results of international blown glass symposia. The Glass Museum in the premises of the Bandinelli Palace at 2 Market Square began its activities in 2006, and the exposition, which is currently functioning, was renovated and opened on April 19, 2013.

Wikipedia: Музей скла (Львів) (UK), Website

A well with an Adonis or Adonis fountain is one of four fountains located one at each corner of the market in Lviv. Adonis figure is located in the northeast corner of the square. The fountain has an octagonal bowl, which stands on the pavement - in the center of a star laid out with red and black stone. In the center of the bowl is a statue of the character of ancient mythology: the hero of Adonis with a dog and his killed boar.

Wikipedia: Фонтан «Адоніс» (Львів) (UK)

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 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.

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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 Market Square. The two other fronts are considerably less conspicuous.

Wikipedia: Lubomirski Palace, Lviv (EN)

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.

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Monument to Ivan Fedorov in Lviv is a monument to Ivan Fedorov, who restored printing on the territory of Ukraine in Lviv, located at 13 Pidvalna Street. 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.

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

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)

The Church of the Assumption (Wallachia) 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 Prychylnyi, commissioned by the Lviv Brotherhood. The parish belongs to the Lviv Eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Успенська церква (Львів) (UK)

The Royal Arsenal is a fortification building located in Lviv on the street. Pidvalna, 13.

Wikipedia: Королівський арсенал (UK)

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.

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The Powder Tower is one of the few surviving monuments of fortification construction in Lviv, at 4 Pidvalna Street in the Na Valakh Square.

Wikipedia: Порохова вежа (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Church of the Presentation, Lviv (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 Barefoot Carmelites is located nearby.

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

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.

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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)