Lviv Things to Do

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Chapel was constructed in 1611 - 1616 as a burial place of Boim's family, by agreement three generation was buried here. Long time ago there was a cemetery around Latin Cathedral, so it was a part of cemetery.

Boim family was invited by Polish - Lithuanian king Stefan Batory to stay in Lviv. One of members of Boim's family - Pavlo - was a doctor and traveler, traveled to China, after that he wrote a manuscript about culture of China, medicine.

Chapel is impressive both outside and inside. It is a very good example of late Renaissance. To see interior you have to pay around 10 grivens. To take photos inside also cost money, but upppsss ... I made one :)

Both of these spots located at the same building complex, that dates back from 16th century, it is example of Renaissance style.

Royal halls is so called due to rich, detailed design of rooms, that were used also as Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth king Jan Sobieski III residence. Nowadays rooms are not so original, most furniture and other things just taken here to make atmosphere of how it looked before.

Italian yard is topical Renaissance structure with arches, so it looks like "Italian". It seems that yard is also used as restaurant. Entrance was around 10 grivens for both (if I am right), anyway, only to see Italian courtyard cost 2 grivens.

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Lviv had a town hall for a long time, at first wooden one in 14th century. The new shape of town hall in Viennese classicism style appeared in 1830-1835, architects were Y. Markley, F. Thresher, A. Vondrashek.

As near almost every town hall, it was a public place in medieval times, punishments were made. Nowadays town hall and its square is active one, with beautiful houses, many people around.

Town hall provides a service of going up to the tower to see panorama. Well, I made it and it was worth. Entrance, as I remember was 5 grivens.

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This park is one of the oldest and most beautiful in Lviv. The project was created Arnold Rering in 1876 - 1877, area housed Strijski cemetery before. Already in 1894 here an exhibition was organized, showing the most typical things about this part of Ukraine.

Nowadays it is also popular by located, here I saw some sculptures (let say, for Jan Kilinski, who participated in 1794 rebellion), also pounds, nicely decorated entrance gates.

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Metropolitan's palace is quite significant place in Lviv and stands just opposite the St. George Cathedral. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church metropolitans stayed here already from 16th century, but this current building is from 18th century, it has both baroque and classicism styles.

When pope John Paul II visited Lviv in 2001, he stayed just in this place.

Palace looks quite elegant and bright, maybe it is impression due to great weather that day :) I was happy to have good weather all that my stay time.

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After seeing the wooden Slavic style wooden church on Lviv presentation I imidiatelly decided also to visit museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, also named as "Shevchenkivsky Hay".

It was founded in 1972 and presents all regions of Ukraine in old traditional architecture. You could see here some specific churches, houses, other buildings. Most of them are moved from places they originally stood before (some as old as 200 years).

The entrance to museum is around 10 grivens. If you are not in hurry, it is possible to spend a half of the day here. Actually visit of this museum and Lychakiv cemetery took almost whole day.

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Monument was built in 2001, and it was made to commemorate 800 years for the birthday of king Daniel Galytsky, Lviv founder.

It is quite standard sculpture, as king Daniel of Galicia is siting on a horse. It is very popular motive all around the World, showing the status and strenght of personality. He was the one to unify Galicia region and to fight back against border enemies, as Golden Horde.

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Taras Shevchenko monument stands in Svobody avenue from 1992, so it is kinda new structure in Lviv. It was in already when Ukraine got independence.

It is one of the most interesting monuments in Lviv, quite arty one. It is prohibited to drink alcohol nearby, as Taras Shevchenko was quite significant person in Ukraine.

About Taras Shevchenko. At first, he was not the same football player, don't be confused. He lived in 19th century, was famous writer and artist, one of creators of modern Ukrainian language. He also lived in Vilnius (my hometown) for some time.