Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Lviv, Ukraine

The Lviv citadel is a monument of fortification art of the mid-nineteenth century in the Halych district of Lviv. The construction of the citadel was carried out in 1850–1856. The citadel consists of four bastion towers and a three-storey barracks building and is located on a hill that consists of three small mountains: Wronowski (Szembek), Pelczynska (Poznań) and Kaliczya (Żebracka). In November 1918, the citadel was one of the main outposts in the defense of the capital of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. During World War II, there was a concentration camp for prisoners of war "Stalag 328" throughout the Citadel. The main place of detention of prisoners of war was the barracks and the central square in front of them.

Wikipedia: Львівська цитадель (UK)

Stalag 328 was a camp for Soviet prisoners of war created by the German military command, which existed in 1941-1944. in Lviv. The place of death of about 140 thousand prisoners of war.

Wikipedia: Шталаг 328 (UK)

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

The Baworowscy Library was one of major Polish libraries, with thousands of books and historical documents.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

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 Solomiya Krushelnytska Music Memorial Museum in Lviv was founded in 1988 and was inaugurated on October 1, 1989. The museum is located in the singer's former house, which she purchased 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.

Wikipedia: Ivan Franko Park (Lviv) (EN)

The monument to the victims of communist crimes was erected in Lviv on Shashkevych Square, opposite the former "Prison on Lontskoho" — the torture chamber of the communist regime. Sculptors — P. Shtayer and R. Syvenky.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник жертвам комуністичних злочинів (UK)

The Polish People's Theatre in Lviv – a theatre founded at the turn of 1957–1958 in Lviv on the initiative of Piotr Hausvater (1894–1966), a retired teacher – Polish philologist, violinist, and a great lover of Polish literature and theatre. The first performance took place on 19 April 1958 at the Polish School No. 10 in Lviv.

Wikipedia: Polski Teatr Ludowy we Lwowie (PL), Website

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 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 Copernicus Street 15.

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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 monument to Mykhailo Hrushevsky in Lviv is a monument to the Ukrainian historian, politician and public figure Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky. Located in the central part of the city on Shevchenko Avenue.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Михайлові Грушевському (Львів) (UK)

Lviv Academic Theater of Variety Miniatures "Both People and Dolls" is a puppet theater in the city of Lviv.

Wikipedia: І люди, і ляльки (UK), Website

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

Wikipedia: Львівська національна філармонія (UK), Website

Monument to Volodymyr Ivasyuk in Lviv is a monument erected on Shevchenko Avenue in Lviv on December 20, 2011.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Володимирові Івасюку (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 Market Square. The two other fronts are considerably less conspicuous.

Wikipedia: Lubomirski Palace, Lviv (EN)

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 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.

Wikipedia: Lviv Arsenal (EN)

Bernardengarden is a garden (square) in the central part of Lviv, near the former Bernardine Monastery. Originated as a monastery garden, it is the only green space in an area that was once bounded by city walls. It is located in an area protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Бернарденгарден (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Hlyniany Gate (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Bernardine Church, Lviv (EN)

The Pinzel Museum is a museum of sacred baroque sculpture by Johann-Georg Pinzel, opened in 1996 in Lviv in the premises of the former Church of the Clares. The museum houses works of art, including sculptures by Pinzel.

Wikipedia: Музей сакральної барокової скульптури Пінзеля (UK)

The Siemensky-Levytskyi Palace is an architectural monument of local importance, located in Lviv at 19 Pekarska Street.

Wikipedia: Палац Сєменських-Левицьких (UK)

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

Wikipedia: Шпиталь боніфратрів (UK)

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

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Antoniego we Lwowie (PL)