Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Lviv, Ukraine

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Number of sights 25 sights
Distance 6.3 km
Ascend 134 m
Descend 150 m

Experience Lviv in Ukraine in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LvivIndividual Sights in Lviv

Sight 1: Музей історії Львівської залізниці

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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)

700 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Степанові Бандері

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The Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv, which stands in front of the Stele of Ukraine Monument, is a statue dedicated to Stepan Bandera, a controversial twentieth century Ukrainian symbol of Nationalism, in the city of Lviv, one of the main cities of Western Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Stepan Bandera monument in Lviv (EN)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth

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The Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth is a Catholic church located in Lviv, Ukraine between the city's main rail station and the Old Town. It was originally built as a Western Catholic church and today serves as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church.

Wikipedia: Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv (EN), Website

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Tsori Gilead Synagogue

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The Tsori Gilod Synagogue is a synagogue in Lviv on Brativ Mikhnovskikh Street. Returned to the Jewish community in 1989, the representatives of the Karlin Hasidic direction who arrived to lead the religious community began to call the synagogue "Beis Aharon ve Yisroel", but for Lviv residents it remained known under its historical name – "Tsori Gilod".

Wikipedia: Синагога Цорі Ґілод (UK)

806 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Lviv State Circus

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Lviv State Circus is a circus in Lviv at 83 Horodotska Street, at the foot of St. George's Hill.

Wikipedia: Львівський державний цирк (UK), Website

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: St. George's Cathedral

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The Cathedral of St. George in Lviv is a cathedral of the Galician Metropolis of the UGCC, until 1817 at the monastery of the Basilian order, a baroque-rococo monumental architectural ensemble with distinct national features (1744–1762), considered the main shrine of Ukrainian Greek Catholics, before the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.

Wikipedia: Собор святого Юра (UK)

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Митрополиту Андрею Шептицькому

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204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського

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Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси НоваківськогоLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Oleksa Novakivskyi Art and Memorial Museum is an artistic and memorial museum institution, a branch of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, the museum's exposition is dedicated to the person and work of the Ukrainian artist Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872–1935).

Wikipedia: Художньо-меморіальний музей Олекси Новаківського (UK), Website

363 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Ivan Franko Park

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Ivan Franko Park Johnny / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Ivan Franko

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Ivan Franko

The Monument to Ivan Franko in Lviv is a monument to the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko in Lviv, located on Universitetska Street in front of the main building of the Lviv National University. Ivan Franko. It was opened on October 30, 1964. The height of the monument together with the pedestal is 12.5 m, the height of the monument itself is 8 meters.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Іванові Франку (Львів) (UK)

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: House of Scientists

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House of Scientists

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

Wikipedia: Будинок_вчених_(Львів) (UK)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Перший український театр для дітей та юнацтва

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The First Academic Ukrainian Theatre for Children and Youth is the first theatre in Ukraine and the world designed for children and young people. It was founded in 1920 in Kharkiv, and in 1944 it was relocated to Lviv

Wikipedia: Перший український театр для дітей та юнацтва (UK), Website

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: The Les Kurbas Theatre

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The Les Kurbas Lviv Academic Theater was founded in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynsky and a group of young actors who, like the outstanding Ukrainian director Les Kurbas and his colleagues in 1918, felt the need to create a theater. Oleg Mikhailovich Tsyona has been the artistic director of the theater since 2019.

Wikipedia: Les Kurbas Theatre (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Museum of Ethnography,Arts &Crafts

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Museum of Ethnography,Arts &CraftsLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

529 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Books

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Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Books Крис

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)

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Potocki Palace

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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.

Wikipedia: Potocki Palace, Lviv (EN)

449 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Adam Mickiewicz

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Adam Mickiewicz Alex Zelenko / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Adam Mickiewicz Monument, also known as the Adam Mickiewicz Column,, is a Neo-classical column commemorating the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) located at the Mickiewicz Square in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, and opened in 1904.

Wikipedia: Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Lviv (EN)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Пам'ятник Хвиля національного відродження

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Пам'ятник Хвиля національного відродженняLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC-BY-SA-3.0

The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Lviv is located on Svoboda Avenue in the city center. To the left of the figure of the poet stands the "Wave of National Revival" — a 12-meter symbolic stele with figured bas-reliefs. The height of the figure is 4.45 m. The monument was unveiled on August 24, 1992. All construction work was completed in 1996.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Тарасові Шевченку (Львів) (UK)

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Львівським броварям

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The Monument to Lviv Brewers is a monument to the brewers of Lviv, the city where beer was first brewed in Ukraine. It is located on the even-numbered side of Svoboda Avenue near the Shopkeepers' Tower. It was opened on May 9, 2011 on the City Day. In the same year, the famous French website "Heritage of Watchmaking" recognized the clock on the monument as one of the most original in the world.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник львівським броварям (UK)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Храм Святих Верховних Апостолів Петра і Павла.(Костел Єзуїтів)

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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

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – one of the oldest churches in Lviv, located at the south-west corner of the Lviv market square. The construction of the church began in the place of the older wooden one in the 60s of the fourteenth century, and the construction was carried out in the mid-fifteenth century. The three-nave edifice in the Gothic style is 67 m long and 23 m wide, and in some elements its builders are modelled on St. Mary's Church in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Katedra Łacińska we Lwowie (PL)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 22: Chapel of the Boim family

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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.

Wikipedia: Boim Chapel (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Lviv Historical Museum

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Rynok Square is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. According to archaeological data, the square was planned in the second half of the 13th century, during the reign of Prince Leo I of Galicia. However, there is a long tradition of later dating the emergence of the square, associated with the activities of the Polish king Casimir III the Great.

Wikipedia: Market Square (Lviv) (EN)

202 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Палац Любомирських

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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.

Wikipedia: Lubomirski Palace, Lviv (EN)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Dormition Church

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Dormition ChurchLestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

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