Bandinelli Palace

A late-sixteenth-century house that began as a European post office. An Italian merchant bought it in the early seventeenth century; the facade has stone dolphins. In 1629 the king granted a royal post privilege; restoration ended 28 December 2005.

Saint Andrew Cathedral

A stone church of the early 17th century built by the architects P. Rymlianyn and A. Bemer: the facade combines Renaissance and Baroque, with sculptures of Christ, the Mother of God, St. Andrew and St. Peter. Sixteen altars, murals by Mazurkevych.

Lviv Historical Museum. Feudalism Department

A department of the Lviv Historical Museum in a building that is one of the oldest in Lviv. The Ancient and Medieval History Department is at the same address.

Cathedral of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin. Church of St. Nicolas

A three-nave, six-pillar basilica with groin vaults, built on the site of an old wooden church. The smooth lines of its Baroque crown soften the severity of the plain facade. Woodcarving by S. Fesinger and paintings by A. Reicham have survived.

Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary

A church in the Neo-Norman style built in 1885 for the parishioners of the Stryi district. In 1913, at the invitation of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Belgian Redemptorist monks came to Lviv. In Soviet times it held a tourist base and a hotel.

History of Religion Museum

The former Museum of Religion and Atheism, with a specialised library that has no analogue in Ukraine: 150 thousand copies and collections of Bibles in many languages. It has three branches: Chervonohrad, Sokal and the Institute of Religious Studies.

Boimy Chapel

Hungarian by origin and Protestant by faith, George (Georgiy) Boim came to Lviv in the 16th century, converted to Catholicism and grew rich in trade. In the early 17th century he ordered a funeral chapel for himself.

Museum at Potocki Palace LAG

The palace was built in 1888–1890 for Count Alfred II Józef Potocki, the governor of Galicia. The first-floor halls are finished in marble, gilding and mirrors; the second floor holds European art of the 14th–18th centuries.

Autocephalous Church (former Church of St. Lazarus)

In 1624 the church was wooden, with a town hospital for the poor opened beside it. Masonry buildings for both were raised in 1735, and a women’s convent followed. Since 1994 the building has housed the Church of St. Lazarus.

Dominican Church (Cathedral) - Church of the Holy Eucharist

The Dominicans were the first Catholic order in these lands. The Gothic church decayed by the mid-18th century and was demolished; Jan de Witte designed the Baroque church built in its place, with sculpture of Pinsel’s school in the dome.

A parish church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for 200 people, opened in 1731 and counted among the monuments of architectural heritage. The relics of St. Josaphat are kept here.

St. Bartholomew Church or Ascension Church

A Gothic parish church of red brick built on the site of an Old Rus princely castle. Construction began in 1392, and it was consecrated on 25 May 1511 after rebuilding. In 1548 it was surrounded by a rampart and moat with defensive towers around it.

Assumption Church

Built with the funds of Wallachian rulers, hence its name. The ensemble has the 66-metre Kornyakt tower, the Chapel of the Three Hierarchs (1591) and the church, completed in 1629. Leaders of the Stauropegion Brotherhood lie in the crypt.

Lviv Regional Puppet Theatre

The theatre began work on 15 April 1946 with the premiere of «Ivasyk-Telesyk». The repertoire combines plays for children and adults, from folk tales to Gogol’s «The Night Before Christmas». Since 2017 it has developed educational projects.

Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Church

A wooden church of 1705 with the three-part architecture typical of Galicia. It was restored in the 1970s. The page has photos and its location on a map.

Church of Clarisse Sisters

A modest three-nave, single-apse church of 1607. It took its present look in the restoration of 1938–1939, when a tower was built on the west facade. Since 1978 it has housed an exhibition hall of the picture gallery, the I. Pinsel Museum.

Latin Cathedral

First stone laid in 1360; built over a hundred years and left unfinished: of two planned towers one rises only to roof level. A Gothic church with a Baroque interior and crypts, where King Jan Casimir entrusted the country’s fate to the Virgin Mary.

Culture and leisure park named after Bogdan Hmelnycky

A park with children’s rides and alleys among green trees, where you can feed the squirrels. Since the mid-19th century it had tennis courts, a skating rink and a pond for fishing; the site has an events poster.

Zvirynecka Brama (gateway)

A gateway in Zhovkva built for leisure rather than for fortification: Stanisław Żółkiewski would rest here on his way to the park.

Theatre Voskresinnya

The theatre was founded in 1990 on the initiative of the director Jaroslav Fedoryshyn and a group of young artists. Its calling card is street performances on stilts; the Lviv repertoire is mostly light comedies.

Saint George Church

A church of specially fired red brick and hewn stone, begun in 1897 and consecrated on 14 October 1901. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi sat on the building committee. From the First World War Ukrainians came to predominate in the Orthodox community.

Discalced Carmelites Cathedral

Founded by Jakub Sobieski, father of King Jan III, whose son completed and decorated it in 1692. A Baroque monument of the first half of the 17th century on a Lviv hill, with a panorama of the city from the square.

Lvivarnia, Museum of Brewing

A complex with interactive exhibits and notes on brewing going back to ancient Egypt, and an art space for exhibitions, shows and concerts. There are souvenirs and a tour with tasting.

Center of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky

A resource and information center of the Ukrainian Catholic University. It brings together classrooms, a public cultural space, conference halls, a children’s area, a café, a bookshop, an exhibition area and a library.

Ivan Fedorov Monument

A monument to the Ukrainian first printer, erected in 1977 by the architect A. Konsulov and the sculptors V. Borysenko and V. Podolsky.

Lviv Historical Museum. Department of the Western Ukrainian Lands History

Dedicated to the 19th–20th-century history of the western lands of Ukraine, on the third floor of a building on Rynok Square.

O. Dovzhenko Cinema Palace (Kino)

A cinema in the Sykhiv district, one of the cinemas of the chain founded by Bohdan Batrukh. The page has 3D photos of the halls, contacts and an address.

Well-Fountain of the Blessed Virgin

A well-fountain with a figure of the Virgin Mary, patroness of the city. The fountain, destroyed in totalitarian times, was restored in 1997 with a copy of the statue by the Munich sculptor Hauttmann (1859).

S. Krushelnytska National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Opera Theatre of Lviv)

The building went up in three years and the first performance was given there in 1900; the Poltva river’s course was changed for it. The repertoire includes «Aida», «La traviata», «Carmen» and the ballets «Swan Lake» and «Giselle».

Ideas Museum

An art project founded in 1992 in the cellars of the monastery by the artist Oles Dzyndra. A space where artistic ideas and projects are born, mature and are carried out; over the years many cultural and artistic events have been staged here.

Lviv Les Kurbas Academic Theatre

One of the youngest theatres in Lviv, created in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynskyi and a group of young actors. It began as a studio and search theatre and still follows an experimental line. Its productions include «The Forest Song» after Lesia Ukrainka.

Marija Zankovetska National Academic Drama Theatre

A theatre whose company included Marija Zankovetska and Panas Saksahanskyi. Two stages in one building: the main stage for classical Ukrainian and foreign drama, the chamber stage for love stories of famous people and intimate plays.

Church of Saint Olga and Saint Elisabeth (Saint Elisabeth Cathedral)

A Neo-Gothic church designed by Teodor Talowski; construction began in 1903 with money from railwaymen. The facade is adorned with a sculpture of Jesus Christ by Petro Viitovych. Closed in 1946, it was handed to a Greek Catholic parish in 1991.

Arts Palace

An exhibition complex in central Lviv, opened in 1996: 12 exhibition halls of over 3.6 thousand sq. m on four floors, some more than 8 m high. A square for open-air events lies in front of the building; there is a 200-seat conference hall.

Myhajlo Dzyndra Sculpture Museum

Over 800 sculptures that the artist brought from the USA and gave to the state. The museum was built with his own funds, and the works are made of building mesh and cement. Today it is a department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

Cinema Kinopalac on Teatralna Street

A cinema of the chain founded by Bohdan Batrukh. The first cinema of this chain was opened in Kyiv in 1998; the page has photos of the halls.

Kornyakt Palace

A six-window palace built in 1580 by the Italian architects Petro of Barbona and Pavlo Rymlianyn as a reward to a wine merchant from Crete. It became the Royal Tenement House in the seventeenth century; the “Eternal Peace” was signed here in 1686.

Stapan Bandera Monumet

A monument to a figure of the Ukrainian nationalist movement of the 20th century, head of the OUN-B leadership. He was born in 1909 in the village of Staryi Uhryniv and died in Munich in 1959.

Jehoshaphat Church (Dominican Church)

The church was built in 1655 with funds from Teofilia Sobieska, in the Neapolitan early Baroque style. The monastery buildings date from the second half of the 18th century. Today it is the Church of St. Jehoshaphat, given to the Greek Catholics.

Royal Arsenal

A Baroque monument attached to the defensive High Wall. The arsenal stored the city’s weapons, and church bells were cast here. The courtyard was a trap: every corner is covered by fire from the windows. Since 1939 it has housed a regional archive.

Glynska Brama (gateway)

The main town gate of Zhovkva, which opened the road to Kraków in Poland. A historic monument that has been reconstructed.

Choral synagogue

A monument of architecture and culture in Drohobych, built in 1842–1865. After the Second World War it held a salt warehouse and a furniture shop; in the 1990s it was handed to the Jewish community. It was painted by Maurycy Gottlieb.

Stapan Bandera Monumet

A full-length figure 7 metres tall with a 30-metre arch behind it, the Stele of Ukrainian Statehood, whose four supports symbolise different periods of history. The authors are the sculptor Mykola Posikira and the architect Mykhailo Fedyk.

Botanic garden of Ivan Franko National Univercity of Lviv

The garden in the south-eastern part of Lviv was laid out by Count Ignacy Cetner, voivode of Bełz, who built a palace, a pond and a park here in the late 18th century. Since 1911 the garden has belonged to Lviv University.

Lviv Historical Museum. Arsenal Museum

The City Arsenal of 1555, built against the defensive wall. Cannons were cast here and the city executioner lived in the tower; since 1981 it has housed Ukraine’s only Weapons Museum, with the sculpture group «Saint Michael Slaying Satan».

Lviv Municipal Theatre

A free space for plays by different companies and directors. On the main stage seasoned actors and students of the Faculty of Culture and Arts perform; the small stage hosts the First Stage of Contemporary Drama, Drama.UA, with readings.

Zoological Museum of LNU named after Ivan Franko

One of the oldest university museums in Europe, founded in 1784. Its collections hold over 178 thousand specimens, about 10 thousand of them on display: invertebrates, insects and more than a thousand species of birds.

Paul and Peter Church

The church was built in 1991–1993 to a design by the architect Oles Yarema; the first service was held on 21 November 1993. A bell tower was added in 2007. The church holds relics of the protomartyr Stephen and other saints set into icons.

Boimy Chapel

Built by the architect Bemer in the Mannerist style; practically finished by 1611, consecrated in 1615. The western facade is covered with carving, and the dome bears a seated figure of Christ in Gethsemane. It now belongs to the picture gallery.

Stryjskyj park

Winding paths over the hills under the diffused light of lanterns; the park changes colours in autumn, and in winter people play snowballs and sledge here. It hosts art actions, and once held the Eastern Fair.