Rynok Square in Lviv
The most famous and one of the oldest squares in Lviv. His heart is for five hundred years. The…
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In the first place, what to see in Lviv?
In the first place, what to see in Lviv? Ancient squares, churches, parks, and cemeteries.
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Panorama of Lviv from the roof of the house at 36 Rynok Square
Modest palace with Hercules A lot of attractive palaces has Rynok Square. But today we are talking about an…
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Park named after Franko – the oldest park in Lviv
The oldest and most legendary park in Lviv bore so many names in its four centuries of life that this is what makes it a record holder.
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Stryiskyi Park – the most magnificent park in Lviv
The park was created by the legendary Lviv park master and engineer of the city plantations Arnold Roering. He laid it in 1879 on the site of ravines and Stryi cemetery, closed half a century before. Rering planted almost 40 thousand trees in the park. Among them was even a tree that has survived as a species since the days of dinosaurs. And in 1887, the lower alley was decorated with a monument to Jan Kilinski, the hero of the Polish revolution led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a general and ally of George Washington. So, Kosciuszko was one of the creators of the United States. With the advent of this monument, the park was named after Kilinsky. Subsequently, the name Stryisky did win.
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The façade of the Lviv Opera
At the end of the nineteenth century, Lviv was the center of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria with the Grand Duchy of Krakow and the Principalities of Auschwitz and Zator within the Austrian Empire. And as a major regional center of Europe, he dreamed of a majestic theater. In the end, this one was built in less than three years (1897-1900). And he received the appropriate name – the Bolshoi City Theater.
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Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv
In the XVIII century. mass re-burials began to be carried out in Europe. The fact is that the states, one after another, began to ban and continue to bury within the city. Because this is a threat to health. After all, next to the basements with food, there were graves, or filled by the deceased dungeons of temples. From now on, cemeteries should be far beyond the city. Lviv has created as many as three suburban cemeteries. Lychakivsky turned out to be the most prestigious, so he lived to this day and became a museum.
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Statue of Liberty in Lviv
Is Freedom Freedom? The Polish community of Lviv managed to open a bank called the Galician Savings Bank. Its…
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Shevchenkivskyi grove in Lviv
Location of exhibits in shevchenkivskyi grove Shevchenkivskyi Grove is the popular name of the Museum of Folk Architecture and…
