Attractions of Lviv

The ensemble of the Benedictine monastery in Lviv - the church and the monastery building - was built with the participation of the architect Pavlo Rymlyanin. It has a pronounced defensive character.

The Church of All Saints is a small stone building, rectangular in plan. Adjacent to the south-eastern part is a two-story building of cells, which has preserved techniques and elements of Renaissance architecture. The complex is surrounded by walls with baroque gates of the 17th century.

Today it is an active Holy Intercession Monastery of the Sisters of the Studio Statute.

The monastery of the Bernardine order in Lviv with the church of Saint Andrew the First-Called in the 17th century was a separate fortification unit outside the city.

The Bernardine Monastery was surrounded by a moat, a rampart and a defensive wall, which is partially preserved, with a tower of the Hlynyansky Gate overlooking the Customs Square. Powerful monastery fortifications were connected with a ring of city walls.

The Church of Saint Andrew was built in the years 1600-1630 according to the project of architects Bernard Avelides and Pavlo Rymlyanin in the Renaissance style. The lush interior is made in the Baroque style, there are many wooden altars of the 18th century. The decorative column in front of the facade was installed in 1736 in honor of Saint John of Dukla, the patron saint of the Bernardines.

The premises of the Bernardine Monastery now belong to the Central State Archives of Lviv, and the church of Andrew the First-Called was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The current building of the maternity hospital in the southwestern part of Lviv is the former Jewish hospital Beth Hulim, built by the famous doctor Yakiv Rappoport at the expense of the Mavrytsiy Lazarus Foundation.

The monumental building is designed in the Moorish style and decorated with Eastern and European symbols. In terms of architectural and visual solutions, the hospital resembles the largest synagogue in Eastern Europe in Budapest.

The author of the project of the 100-bed hospital was the well-known Lviv architect Kazymyr Moklovsky, who collaborated with the architectural and construction bureau of Ivan Levynsky, which implemented the project.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Central Park of Culture and Rest is located in the central part of Lviv, on the slope of the hill between Stryiska, Heroiv Maidanu, Vitovskoho and Zarytskyh streets. A recreation and entertainment zone existed here as early as the 19th century.

The modern park was laid out in 1951 and arranged according to the Soviet traditions of creating typical parks of culture and rest for working people. From those times, the central avenue with a length of more than 800 meters, the colonnade of the central entrance and the premises of the "Druzhba" cinema have been preserved. In 1970, the central entrance was decorated with fountains.

Since 1984, the Park of Culture has the status of a monument of garden and park art of local importance. There is a children's entertainment zone "Zhu-Zhu Park" and a park of moving dinosaur figures on the territory.

Street cafes and restaurants are open. Various festivals and fairs are held regularly.

The People's Bread Museum of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God operates in the premises of the dormitory of the Lviv Automobile and Road Vocational College. It was founded in 1987 on the initiative of the honored teacher of Ukraine Bohdan Neporadnyi.

The exposition in 16 rooms highlights the history of the agricultural culture of the Slavs, tells about the importance of bread in human life, demonstrates the process of baking different types of bread. In total, more than 1,500 exhibits are placed on an area of ​​300 square meters.

The leading place in the exhibition is occupied by the ethnographic collection, which represents the culture and life of Ukrainian bread-growing peasants. These are work tools, household items, embroidered clothes, jewelry. Samples of varieties of grain crops and samples of bread and bakery products are also presented.

The private museum of carriages in Lviv operates on the basis of the horse club "Carriage Yard", where Tori horses are bred.

The exposition presents 14 carriages of different types: landau, fiakr, phaeton, tarantas, visavi, etc. "Carriage Yard" also offers hippotherapy, horse riding lessons, horse tourism and a carriage tour through the streets of old Lviv.

The Church of Christ the Savior (Church of the Resurrection) on Pekarska Street in Lviv was built in 1874 as a Roman Catholic church and monastery of the Order of the Resurrection.

The project was executed by the architect Alʹbin Zagurskyi, the main altar was designed by the architects Yan Tomash Kudelskyi and the sculptor Petro Harasymovych. In 1881-1882, a boarding house was added to the monastery. The final construction was completed in 1889.

In 1932, the interior of the church was painted in the Art Nouveau style by artists Kazymyr Smuchak and Stanislav Ehrenfeld.

Today it is the church of Christ the Savior of the Protestant community of the Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith

The Museum of Computer Technology in Lviv is located in the basement of the Scientific Library of Ivan Franko Lviv National University.

The interactive exhibition is devoted to the history of computers and video games of the 1980s and 1990s. More than a hundred devices are presented, most of which are in working condition.

In particular, you can see the technology of the USA (Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM), the UK (Acorn, Sinclair, Tangerine Computer Systems), the countries of the former Eastern Bloc ("Pravets", Mera, Robotron), the USSR ("Elektronika BK") and of Ukraine (PK-01 "Lviv", "Search", "Orel" BK08).

The monument to King Danylo Halytskyi, the founder of Lviv and the creator of the Galician-Volyn state, was erected for the 745th anniversary of the city.

Prince Danylo Romanovych from the Galician branch of the Rurik family united the country by force, defeating the regiments of Hungarian and Polish feudal lords, as well as Galician boyars in 1245.

The project of the monument to King Danylo Halytskyi in Lviv was developed by the sculptors Yarych and Romanovych, as well as the architect Churylyk. The monument is a bronze equestrian figure on a granite pedestal.

The church and monastery of the Discalced Carmelites of the Mother of God of Hromnycha was founded in Lviv by Yakub Sobeskyi, the father of King Yan Sobeskyi.

Construction began in 1644 and continued until the end of the century. The monastery complex with the church belonged to the Order of Discalced Carmelites until 1792.

The Baroque-style temple has the shape of a Latin cross, and its forms resemble the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome.

Now it belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.

The Dominican Cathedral is one of the most significant baroque monuments in Lviv.

The cells of the Dominican monastery date back to the 16th century. In 1559, Princess Halshka Ostrozka, the heiress of the powerful Volyn family of Ostrozkyi, hid here from the magnate Lukash Hurka, who forcibly forced her into marriage. In 1701, Tsar Petro I signed a treaty here on the military alliance of Russia and Poland against Sweden.

Until the 18th century, the building of the Dominican church was Gothic. In 1792-1798, the architect Jan de Witte reconstructed it at the expense of Yuzef Potocki, the facades were decorated by master Sebastyan Fesinher. The interior contains a number of valuable works of art: alabaster tombstones of the 16th century, a marble monument to Arthur Grotger.

During Soviet times, the Dominican Cathedral housed a museum of atheism. Today it is the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Eucharist. Part of the collection of monuments of sacred art of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion is exhibited in the dungeons. Organ music concerts are held.

The dungeon of the Garrison Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church is a complex of premises under one of the largest churches in Lviv, the history of which begins in the 17th century. Remains of houses of the 14th-15th centuries, which were located on the site of the temple before its construction, have been preserved here.

Until the end of the 18th century, the dungeons were used as crypts for the burial of priests and donors to the temple. Hetman Stanislav-Jan Yablonovskyi, the defender of Lviv from the Tatars and the hero of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, found his resting place here.

Currently, 10 halls are available for inspection. The exhibition tells about the history of the Garrison Church and the development of Lviv from the 14th to the 18th centuries. In particular, a layout of Lviv during princely times is presented. Restoration work and design of new expositions are ongoing.

Every Saturday at 16:00 a comprehensive tour of the dungeons and the upper part of the Garrison Temple is held. Individual tours of the temple are available by prior arrangement.

Art Center "Dzyga" in Lviv is the residence of the creative association "Dzyga" - an organization of artists, public figures and entrepreneurs. Active since 1993.

The gallery presents modern art. Jazz and blues concerts are held every night in the club.

At the gallery, there is a cafe "Pid klepsydroyu" - a meeting place of Lviv bohemians with a democratic and creative atmosphere.

The Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine occupies a neo-Renaissance building on the main street of Lviv - Svobody Avenue.

At the base of the dome of the museum building is an allegorical sculptural group symbolizing the economic prosperity of Galicia, which is called the only sitting Statue of Liberty in the world.

The exposition of the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts presents a rich collection of ceramics, porcelain and earthenware, art glass products. Collection of watches of the XVI-XX centuries. has about 350 copies.

One of the buildings on Pekarska street, which has a small architectural feature - one of its corners is extremely sharp, was nicknamed the "flat house" in Lviv. Thanks to this, when viewed from a certain angle, when the faces are hidden from the observer, the illusion is created that the house is flat, that is, it has only one wall - the facade.

Other famous "flat houses" are in Odesa and Zhytomyr.