Attractions of Lviv district

The Dominican Cathedral is one of the most significant baroque monuments in Lviv.

The cells of the Dominican monastery date back to the 16th century. In 1559, Princess Halshka Ostrozka, the heiress of the powerful Volyn family of Ostrozkyi, hid here from the magnate Lukash Hurka, who forcibly forced her into marriage. In 1701, Tsar Petro I signed a treaty here on the military alliance of Russia and Poland against Sweden.

Until the 18th century, the building of the Dominican church was Gothic. In 1792-1798, the architect Jan de Witte reconstructed it at the expense of Yuzef Potocki, the facades were decorated by master Sebastyan Fesinher. The interior contains a number of valuable works of art: alabaster tombstones of the 16th century, a marble monument to Arthur Grotger.

During Soviet times, the Dominican Cathedral housed a museum of atheism. Today it is the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Eucharist. Part of the collection of monuments of sacred art of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion is exhibited in the dungeons. Organ music concerts are held.

The dungeon of the Garrison Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church is a complex of premises under one of the largest churches in Lviv, the history of which begins in the 17th century. Remains of houses of the 14th-15th centuries, which were located on the site of the temple before its construction, have been preserved here.

Until the end of the 18th century, the dungeons were used as crypts for the burial of priests and donors to the temple. Hetman Stanislav-Jan Yablonovskyi, the defender of Lviv from the Tatars and the hero of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, found his resting place here.

Currently, 10 halls are available for inspection. The exhibition tells about the history of the Garrison Church and the development of Lviv from the 14th to the 18th centuries. In particular, a layout of Lviv during princely times is presented. Restoration work and design of new expositions are ongoing.

Every Saturday at 16:00 a comprehensive tour of the dungeons and the upper part of the Garrison Temple is held. Individual tours of the temple are available by prior arrangement.

Art Center "Dzyga" in Lviv is the residence of the creative association "Dzyga" - an organization of artists, public figures and entrepreneurs. Active since 1993.

The gallery presents modern art. Jazz and blues concerts are held every night in the club.

At the gallery, there is a cafe "Pid klepsydroyu" - a meeting place of Lviv bohemians with a democratic and creative atmosphere.

Fromages "Elise", also known as the Chevreut Farm, is located in Dmytrovychi, on the outskirts of Sudova Vyshnia.

The farm is built according to European standards of traditional farming. The farm is open for green tourism and offers visitors high-quality farm products produced according to traditional French technology.

The main products are goat cheeses based on the milk of goats grown on the farm, as well as ecologically clean meat (goat, beef) and meat products.

Excursions are held by prior arrangement.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the main Catholic church of the town, which existed already during the time of Vladyslav Yahaylo. In his image, the architectural techniques of various stylistic directions - Gothic, Baroque and modern - were originally combined.

Probably, the first wooden Exaltation Church was laid in 1372 by the Polish governor Vladyslav Opolchyk. In its current form, the traditional Gothic church was rebuilt in 1419. In the 16th century, reconstruction was carried out and a belfry with six bells was built, the largest of which was consecrated in 1753.

During the last reconstruction, carried out in the 1930s of the 20th century by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the western, largest part of the church was completed. The facade was decorated with sculptures of the Mother of God, the apostles Peter and Paul.

The interiors were completely destroyed during the Soviet rule.

Today, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is active again.

The Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych opened in the village of Derevnia in November 2012 in the premises of the village People's House to mark the 201st anniversary of the writer's birth. It became the fifth museum in the Lviv region dedicated to this outstanding Ukrainian cultural figure.

The author of the museum exposition was the famous Ukrainian artist Orest Skop.

The village of Derevnia was for a long time the family parish of the Krushynsky fathers, from whose family Yuliya Krushynska is the wife of Markiyan Shashkevych. It was in Derevnia that the newlyweds got married in 1839 and lived for some time.

The museum presents household items of the Shashkevychs, books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, icons, paintings. The exposition tells about the Krushynsky family, the marriage of Markiyan Shashkevych, the life of the young family.

One of the museum's halls is dedicated to the ethnography of the region - it exhibits ancient folk items that existed in the village at different times, photographs, towels, carpets, etc.

In the future, the museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych is planned to be moved to an authentic rectory, which has been preserved in the village of Derevnia and is over two hundred years old.

The monument to the fighters for the freedom of Ukraine was erected in Horodok in 2003 on the initiative of the "Memorial" society. Dedicated to the UVO-OUN fighters Vasyl Bilas, Dmytro Danylyshyn, Volodymyr Staryk and Yuriy Berezynsky, who died in 1932 during an armed attack on the city postal and judicial institution of the Polish authorities.

Now the former post office building houses the Horodok District State Administration.

The author of the original project of the monument is Professor Ivan Samotos.

The Historical and Local lore Museum, mainly dedicated to the events of the First World War, has been operating in the premises of the secondary school of the village of Hiiche since 1990. The museum exposition is based on exhibits collected by students, teachers and local residents.

The exposition presents archaeological finds, ancient clothing, craft tools and household items of peasants. In particular, you can see a fragment of a Scythian horse and a metal arrowhead from the times of Mongol-Tatar rule.

The museum also features information about the events of World War I, when a major battle took place on the outskirts of the village in the Pribytka tract between the troops of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. Among the exhibits is an embroidered towel with the inscription "Glory to the Heroes". Documents, photographs, and weapons reflecting the tragic events of September 1914 are also presented.

One of the buildings on Pekarska street, which has a small architectural feature - one of its corners is extremely sharp, was nicknamed the "flat house" in Lviv. Thanks to this, when viewed from a certain angle, when the faces are hidden from the observer, the illusion is created that the house is flat, that is, it has only one wall - the facade.

Other famous "flat houses" are in Odesa and Zhytomyr.

The Franciscan church was built in Lviv in 1708-1178. as the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Capuchin Monastery, founded in 1707 by Elzhbeta Sofiya Senyavska. The temple is made in baroque style.

After the liquidation of the Capuchin order in 1785, the monastery complex was occupied by the Franciscans.

In Soviet times, a boarding school was located here.

Today, the church belongs to the Church of Seventh-day Adventist Christians.

The Lviv Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum (Franko House) was opened in 1940 on the initiative of the writer's youngest son, Petro.

The museum is located in a small two-story villa in the Swiss style, where Ivan Franko and his family spent the last 14 years of his life.

The exhibition was based on a collection of autographs, letters, documents, photographs, books and personal belongings from the writer's office, collected by the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society.

In Franko House, the atmosphere of the life of the writer and his family is recreated in detail: a study, a library, a dining room, Ivan Franko's bedroom, a women's room, Olha Franko's room, Taras and Petro Franko's room. In 2018, the exhibition "Kitchen of the Franko House" was created.

The literary exposition is located in the neighboring two-story house of the Polish entrepreneur Antony Uvyera, built in 1923-1925 in the neoclassical style according to the project of the Lviv architect Ivan Bahenskyi.

Upon request, the museum "Franko House" staff conducts theatrical, thematic, author's, interactive excursions, walking tours through the streets of Lviv, themed quests, and master classes. Literary evenings, theater performances, concerts of classical and modern music, various exhibitions and performances are also periodically held in the museum.

The legendary George Hotel in Lviv is the oldest hotel in Ukraine, an elegant architectural monument of the times of Austria-Hungary.

Founded in 1793 as the restaurant "Under the Three Hooks", on the basis of which the De La Rus Inn opened three years later. In 1816, the hotel became the property of the Bavarian merchant Georg (George) Hoffmann, who arranged the garden, built a theater hall and an entrance gate.

The current building in the Viennese Neo-Renaissance style was built in 1901 according to the project of the famous Viennese architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner, the authors of the Odessa Opera. The "Saint George" relief was moved from the old building to the pediment of the new one. In the niches of the side facades are allegorical statues symbolizing Europe, Asia, America, Africa. The hall with a wide spread staircase impresses with grandeur.

Many celebrities stayed at the Georges Hotel: Honore de Balzac, Ferenc Liszt, Ethel.-Lilian Voynich and others.

The Museum of Glass in Lviv was established on the initiative of a famous Ukrainian glazier, chairman of the organizing committee of the International Symposiums of Tempered Glass in Lviv, former rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey.

Among the oldest exhibits are glassware and beads made in the I-II centuries AD in the Roman colonies in southern Ukraine, beads and utensils from the XI-XII centuries, as well as bracelets and fragments of bracelets found during archaeological excavations.

Since 2006, the museum has been operating in the basement of the Bandinelli Palace in the Rynok Square. Since then, the museum's collection has been systematically replenished with works created as part of the International Symposium of Tempered Glass. Part of it was transferred to the funds of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

The Gunpowder Tower is a fully preserved fragment of Lviv's defensive structures. One of the 17 towers that were part of the ring of city fortifications. A monument of military defense architecture of the Renaissance era.

The Gunpowder tower was located on the defensive rampart behind the second line of fortifications and served to protect the approaches to the city from the eastern side. It was also used to store gunpowder and ammunition, and in peacetime - as a grain warehouse.

It is built of unhewn stone, semicircular in plan, three-story, covered with a gabled roof. The thickness of the walls reaches 2.5 meters. For more than four centuries, the rising ground level hid the lower part of the tower by one and a half to two meters.

Since 1959, the premises have been occupied by the Architect's House with an exhibition hall. Now the Center for Architecture, Design and Urbanism "Gunpowder Tower" is located here.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of Kamyanechchyna has been operating since 1996 at the Center for Children's and Youth Creativity of the Kamyanka-Buzka City Council.

The exposition in four halls tells about the history of Kamyanechchyna since ancient times, the national liberation struggle in the territory of the region, the culture and lifestyle of local residents, the history of the Kamianka-Buzka theater.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the family of public and public figures Tsegelskyi. Thanks to the efforts of Father Mykhaylo Tsehelsky, a new Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and the People's House appeared in Kamyanka. In 1875, his son Lonhyn was born in his family, who later became the first minister of internal affairs of the ZUNR. The personal belongings of the Tsehelsky family members and their furniture are presented.

Among other exhibits of the museum are the original map of Galicia from the 1940s, old postcards with architectural monuments of Kamyanka-Buzka, as well as photos and materials related to the figures of the Ukrainian national movement.