Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Lviv, Ukraine

The Museum of the History of Lviv Railway is a museum institution of Lviv, founded in 1973. At that time, it was the first institution of this type in Ukraine. Since 2001, the museum has been located in the Palace of Science and Technology of the Lviv-West locomotive depot on the street. Fedkovycha 54-56.

Wikipedia: Музей історії Львівської залізниці (UK)

The monument to Andrey Sheptytsky was erected in Lviv in 2015.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Митрополиту Андрею (Львів) (UK)

The Baworowscy Library was one of major Polish libraries, with thousands of books and historical documents.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.

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The monument to the victims of communist crimes was erected in Lviv on Shashkevych Square, opposite the former "Prison on Lontskoho Street" - the torture chamber of the communist regime. The sculptors are P. Steyer and R. Syvenkyi.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник жертвам комуністичних злочинів (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)

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.

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The House of Scientists is a former National Casino built by Fellner & Helmer in 1897-1898 by Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.

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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)

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 Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Book Art is a book studies museum and research center in Lviv, an independent department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

Wikipedia: Музей мистецтва давньої української книги (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 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 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.

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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.

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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 church of St. Andrew now belong to the Order of St. Basil the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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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)

The City Arsenal is the oldest of three historic arsenal buildings in Lviv, Ukraine. The other two are the Royal Arsenal and Sieniawski Arsenal. It is a rectangular two-storey structure with a miniature octagonal tower on the north side. The building, in its present shape, was erected in 1554–56 above a 14th-century structure of unknown function. It was formerly attached to the city walls and featured a torture chamber. The arsenal building was blown up by the Swedes during the Great Northern War but was subsequently restored. At present, it houses an armoury museum.

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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 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.

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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 resumed printing on the territory of Ukraine in Lviv, located at 13 Pidvalna Street. It was 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 Royal Arsenal is a fortification building located in Lviv on the street. Pidvalna, 13.

Wikipedia: Королівський арсенал (UK)

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.

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

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 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 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 Church of St. Lawrence, the monastery and the hospital of the Bonifrats is a complex of sacred buildings in Lviv, on Lychakivska Street. Now they are used as a military hospital.

Wikipedia: Шпиталь боніфратрів (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.

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The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life named after Klymentii Sheptytsky is an open-air museum in Lviv.

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