Ukraine offers its guests many unique places and cities that are attractive from a tourist point of view. Walking around Lviv, ancient, mysterious and majestic, is one of the most striking proofs of this. After all, it is not without reason that Soviet filmmakers also loved him so much, who shot more than one hundred films in its historical interiors. And in the history of Lviv itself, you can find many heroic pages. And the first mention of it dates back to 1256. Talented architects who came here from all over Europe, brought to life their most extraordinary and daring projects, which today delight lovers of ancient architecture.
Walks in Lviv
Scientists claim that half of the architectural masterpieces of Ukraine are kept in Lviv, the guests of the city agree with this. The historical center of the former capital of the Galician principality today can be called one big attraction. Among the main monuments of medieval architecture are the following:
- Opera House (location - Central Avenue);
- The Town Hall is a stronghold of the independence of the city (the beginning of construction dates back to the XIV century, the modern look - from the first quarter of the XIX century);
- The Greek Catholic Cathedral consecrated in honor of St. George;
The most beautiful Dominican Cathedral.
These monuments of history and architecture are only a modest part of the wealth that can be seen walking along narrow cobbled streets and wide avenues.
Wonderful views of Lviv open from the site located in the High Castle Park. Old-timers and historians assure that there really was an old castle complex on the site of the park, but unfortunately, today only a small fragment of the defensive wall remains from it. If you want and have time, you can drive around the outskirts of Lviv to see the castles located in the so-called Lviv Horseshoe.
Museum routes
Walking around Lviv is impossible without visiting one or another museum. On the map of this ancient Ukrainian city, you can find about forty museum institutions, including the National Museum, at the origins of which was Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Exhibits of the Lviv skansen - an open-air museum, will tell about how the ancient inhabitants of these lands lived long before our birth.
Ancient architecture reflects all major trends, styles, eras. There are few traces of Gothic in Lviv, this is associated with the fires of 1527, 1556, but the Renaissance and Baroque, classicism and Art Nouveau, which became popular at the beginning of the twentieth century, are well represented.
