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The Best Attractions In Lviv Oblast

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The Best Attractions In Lviv Oblast

  • 1. Market Square Lviv
    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.The square is rectangular in shape, with measurements of 142 metres by 129 metres and with two streets radiating out of every corner. In the middle there was a row of houses, with its southern wall made by the Town Hall. However, when in 1825 the tower of the Town Hall burned, all adjacent houses were demolished and a new hall, with a 65-metre tower, was built in 1835 by architects J. Markl and F. Trescher.Around the square, there are 44 t...
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  • 2. Old Town Lviv
    Lviv's Old Town is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine, recognized as the State Historic-Architectural Sanctuary in 1975.
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  • 3. Lviv High Castle Lviv
    Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016. Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Named in honor of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of Poland and Ruthenia. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of ...
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  • 4. Lychakiv Cemetery Lviv
    Lychakiv Cemetery , officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve Lychakiv Cemetery , is a famous and historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
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  • 5. Olesko Castle Olesko
    Olesko Castle is located within the borders of the present-day Busk Raion in Ukraine. The first historical records of the castle are in a document dated 1390, when Pope Boniface IX gave Olesko and Tustan to a Catholic bishop of Halych. It is located about seventy-five kilometers from Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine.
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  • 7. Pharmacy Museum Lviv
    The Pharmacy Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square. The drugstore was established in 1735 by Wilhelm Natorp, a military pharmacist. It was called Under the Black Eagle. 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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  • 9. Armenian Virgin Mary's Dormition Church Lviv
    The Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, north of the market square. Until 1945 it was the cathedral of the Armenian Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, since 2000 it serves as a cathedral of the Eparchy of Ukraine of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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  • 10. National Park Skole Beskids Skole
    National nature parks of Ukraine are preservation territories that are part of the Nature-Preservation Fund of Ukraine. The total area protected by national parks is approximately 1,111,600 hectares , for an average of 22,685 hectares but a median of only 14,836 hectares at Zalissya. The largest national park is Upper Pobozhia in Khmelnytskyi Oblast: at over 100,000 hectares . The smallest park is Derman-Ostroh National Nature Park, at less than 5,500 hectares . This category of the Nature-Preservation Fund was mainly established after the fall of the Soviet Union. There were very few parks in Ukraine and most of them were in the West.
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  • 12. Mount Parashka Skole
    Parashka – mountain in the Ukrainian Carpathians, the highest peak of the Parashka Range in the Skole Beskids. Highest peak reaches 1,268.5 metres above sea level. It is located at a distance 8 kilometres north-west from the district center Skole and 118 kilometres from the regional center of Lviv. The Opir and Stryi Rivers flow near the Mount as well. Gurkalo is a known waterfall on the River Velyka Richka. Pine and beech forests cover its slopes. It is a popular site for tourists.
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  • 13. Arsenal Museum Lviv
    The City Arsenal is the oldest of three historic arsenal buildings in Lviv, Ukraine. The other two are the Royal Arsenal and Sieniawski Arsenal. It is a rectangular two-storey structure with a miniature octagonal tower on the north side. The building, in its present shape, was erected in 1554–56 above a 14th-century structure of unknown function. It was formerly attached to the city walls and featured a torture chamber. The arsenal building was blown up by the Swedes during the Great Northern War but was subsequently restored. At present it houses an armoury museum.
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  • 14. Church of the Jesuits Lviv
    Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church is known to Lviv's residents as the Jesuit Church and was built in the style of early baroque in the beginning of the 17th century. The building resembles Rome's Il Gesù Cathedral and is considered one of the most beautiful religious buildings in Lviv. The church was reopened on December 6, 2011 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The rite of consecration of the church building and the celebration of the first Divine Liturgy was done by Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv of UGCC bishop Ihor Voznyak.
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