Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Lviv, Ukraine

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)

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)

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

Lviv Academic Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka is a city theater in Lviv, located in the historic center of the city at 36 Horodotska Street and named after the famous Ukrainian poetess and playwright Lesya Ukrainka.

Wikipedia: Львівський драматичний театр імені Лесі Українки (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 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)

Svoboda Avenue in Lviv is the central street of Lviv, one of the most beautiful and prestigious in the city, the epicenter of business and cultural life. The architecture of Svoboda Avenue intertwines the features of secession and eclecticism, which is nourished by the historical styles of classicism, neo-Renaissance and baroque. The total length of the avenue is about 575 meters. On the south side, it is bounded by Mickiewicz Square, and on the north by Horodotska Street, after which Svoboda Avenue turns into Vyacheslav Chornovil Avenue.

Wikipedia: Проспект Свободи (Львів) (UK)

Maria Zankovetska Theatre is a drama theatre in the centre of Lviv, Ukraine, at the intersection of Lesya Ukrayinka Street and Prospekt Svobody. The building was erected in the mid 19th century and until World War I was used as a theatre stage and a session hall of the regional council.

Wikipedia: Maria Zankovetska Theatre (EN), Website

The Church of the Transfiguration in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, just north of the market square.

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Uspensky Cathedral or Dormition Cathedral – one of the oldest and most valuable historic churches in Lviv, founded by the Armenians in the second half of the fourteenth century, which was almost from the beginning the center of the Armenian bishopric. Rebuilt and expanded many times, it has preserved architectural traces from all stages of its history. An important importance in the history of the cathedral was its expansion and modernization carried out in the first half of the twentieth century, undertaken on the initiative of Archbishop Józef Teofil Teodorowicz. Significant personalities from the world of science and art were involved in the expansion process, including: Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz, Franciszek Mączyński, Józef Mehoffer and Jan Henryk Rosen.

Wikipedia: Katedra ormiańska we Lwowie (PL)

The well with the figure of Adonis or the fountain "Adonis" is one of the four fountains located one on each corner of Rynok Square in Lviv. The figure of Adonis is located on the northeast corner of the square. The fountain has an octagonal bowl, which stands on the pavement — in the center of the star, lined with red and black stone. In the center of the bowl is a statue of a character from ancient mythology: the hero Adonis with a dog and a boar killed by him.

Wikipedia: Фонтан «Адоніс» (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 the Market Square. The two other fronts are considerably less conspicuous.

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The Korniakt Palace on Market Square in Lviv is a prime example of the royal kamienica, or townhouse. The fabric of the palace is of various dates. It was originally built by Polish architect Piotr Barbon for merchant Konstanty Korniakt, a champion of Greek Orthodoxy and co-founder of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood. Construction of this severely elegant Renaissance palazzo was completed in 1580.

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Lviv Historical Museum is one of the oldest museums in Ukraine, founded in 1893. The fund collection of the museum has more than 370 thousand exhibits. The exposition introduces the history of the city of Lviv and the Galician lands from ancient times to the present day.

Wikipedia: Львівський історичний музей (UK)

The first Museum of Glass in Lviv was founded in 1992 by the famous Ukrainian glazier, rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey with the aim of exhibiting the results of international blown glass symposiums. Museum of Glass in the premises of the Bandinelli Palace on pl. Market 2 began its activities in 2006, and the current exposition was renovated and opened on April 19, 2013.

Wikipedia: Музей скла (Львів) (UK), Website

The Pharmacy Museum (drugsrore-mesuem) in Lviv, Ukraine, was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square. It is the working drugstore and museum, the oldest of the existing pharmacies in Lviv. The museum consists of 16 rooms which exhibit antique pharmaceutical appliances, prescriptions, medicines, dishes, a library of pharmacy-related books, and even a reconstructed alchemy workshop.

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Lviv Academic Regional Puppet Theater is a regional puppet theater located in the center of Lviv at pl. Danila Halytskogo, bud. 1.

Wikipedia: Львівський обласний театр ляльок (UK)

The church of all saints and the monastery of Benedictine - a monument of Renaissance architecture in Lviv. Security rooms 369/0, 369/1.

Wikipedia: Костел і монастир бенедиктинок (Львів) (UK)

The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Greek Catholic church in Lviv, at 2 Snizhna Street. Once it was the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Snows. One of the oldest temples in the city, built by German colonists in the XIV century on the site of an older wooden one from the XIII century. The first written mention dates back to 1352. The dedication of churches to Mary of the Snows has its origins in the story of the miracle of the Mother of God in Rome in 358, when she appeared to three people at once. The Mother of God promised to give the childless couple a son, in return the faithful were to build a church. The sign of the construction site of the temple was to be snow.

Wikipedia: Церква Матері Божої Неустанної Помочі (Львів) (UK)

The Church of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the Wonderworker, is a religious building in Lviv, a functioning temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, an architectural monument of national importance. Traditionally, it is considered the oldest temple in the city. It is located under Mount Budelnitsa on the street. Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 28 g.

Wikipedia: Церква святого Миколая (Львів) (UK)

The Museum of Monuments of Ancient Lviv is a department of the Lviv Art Gallery, which presents exhibits that tell about Lviv in princely times.

Wikipedia: Музей пам'яток стародавнього Львова (UK)

The Church of St. John the Baptist is one of the oldest religious buildings in Lviv, located on Staryi Rynok Square, on the street. Uzhhorodska, 1. Together with the Church of St. Nicholas, also built near the foot of the Prince's Hill, and several other religious buildings, it is considered part of the ensemble of the city from the time of the Russian princes. Many legends and hypotheses are associated with the temple, both regarding its foundation and confessional history. The building houses a museum of the ancient history of Lviv, and religious services are held every Sunday.

Wikipedia: Храм святого Івана Хрестителя (Львів) (UK)

The Lviv High Castle is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. It is currently the highest point in the city, 413 metres (1,355 ft) above sea level. The castle currently stands in ruins.

Wikipedia: Lviv High Castle (EN)

Mount Leva is one of the hills of the Davydiv Ridge, a natural monument of local importance. The hill is located near the center of Lviv, between Opryshkivska, Maksyma Kryvonosa and Oleksa Dovbush streets.

Wikipedia: Гора Лева (UK)

Znesinnya Regional Landscape Park is the largest park in Lviv, Ukraine. It is located in the north-east part of the city and reachable within a 20-minute walk from the Ratusha and the Rynok Square. Together with the Vysokyi Zamok the hills of Park Znesinnya from Lviv's distinctive city skyline, known from drawings going back to the 16th century.

Wikipedia: Znesinnia Regional Landscape Park (EN)