Площу Ринок Центральна площа стародавнього Львова зберегла численні купецькі будинки та палаци знаті. Найстаріші її кам’яниці походять з ХVI ст. і досі зберігають свої ренесансні риси. Численні палаци патриціїв вирізняються вишуканістю і належною скромністю яку вимагали закони магдебургського права. Кожен дім має свій колір, неповторні прикраси та історія, що сягаю понад півтисчоліття. Львівську оперу Це…
Modest palace with Hercules A lot of attractive palaces has Rynok Square. But today we are talking about an overly modest and devoid of décor house at number 36. Why is he like that? Everything is explained by the fact that Lviv moved to Austria at a time of its decline. And even in the…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is Freedom Freedom? The Polish community of Lviv managed to open a bank called the Galician Savings Bank. Its name in Polish has now been restored and is clearly visible under the dome. And the name is encrypted in the frame of the balcony, consisting of repeating the letters GKO. The bank building, built in…
The most famous and one of the oldest squares in Lviv. His heart is for five hundred years. The name of the central square is typical of cities that had Magdeburg Law (the right of urban autonomy). Magdeburgia originated in Germany, so German terminology is familiar to cities that adopted these laws. Of German origin…
