Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Lviv, Ukraine

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 8.4 km
Ascend 170 m
Descend 169 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 Lviv

Sight 1: Костел св. Антонія

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St. Anthony's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Lviv, located at 49a Lychakiv Street in the Lychakiv district.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Antoniego we Lwowie (PL)

1025 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Церква свмч. Климентія Шептицького

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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

348 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Royal Arsenal

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Royal ArsenalLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Wikipedia: Королівський арсенал (UK)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Dormition Church

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Dormition ChurchLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Рештки Вежі мулярів

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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.

Wikipedia: Оборонні мури Львова (UK)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Никифорові-Епіфанієві Дровняку

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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.

Wikipedia: Nikifor (EN)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Бернарденгарден

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Бернарденгарден Крис / CC BY 2.5

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)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Adam Mickiewicz

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Adam Mickiewicz Alex Zelenko / CC BY-SA 4.0

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)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Lviv National Philharmonic

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Lviv National Philharmonic named after Myroslav Skoryk is a philharmonic located in Lviv at 7 Myroslav Skoryk Street.

Wikipedia: Львівська національна філармонія (UK), Website

461 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Potocki Palace

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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.

Wikipedia: Potocki Palace, Lviv (EN)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Lviv National Art Gallery

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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)

454 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Ivan Franko

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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.

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

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Ivan Franko Park

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Ivan Franko Park Johnny / CC BY-SA 3.0

Ivan Franko Park, formerly known as Kościuszko Park and the Jesuit Gardens, is a park in Lviv, Ukraine. It is the oldest park in the country.

Wikipedia: Ivan Franko Park (Lviv) (EN)

271 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Музично-меморіальний музей С. Крушельницької

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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)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: National Museum & Memorial to the Victims of Occupation

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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

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Арсенал Сенявських

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The Baworowscy Library was one of major Polish libraries, with thousands of books and historical documents. It was located in Lwow, and ceased to exist after World War II.

Wikipedia: Baworowscy Library (EN)

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Митрополиту Андрею Шептицькому

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1337 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 18: Музей історії Львівської залізниці

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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)

1432 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: Botanical Garden of Lviv Forestry Institute

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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)

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