Attractions of Lviv region

The Dobromyl town hall was built in the 18th century in the Renaissance style. A clock was installed on the clock tower in 1883, which is still working.

On the facade of the town hall is the family coat of arms of the Herburts - a green apple pierced with three swords.

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 monastery of the Catholic Dominican order in Belz was founded in 1394 on the initiative of Prince Zemovyt IV of Belz and Polotsk, but its first wooden buildings have not survived to our time.

The modern complex of the monastery of the Dominican fathers began to be built in the middle of the 16th century. The central building was the Dominican church, built as a three-nave basilica with a transept and an elongated circular altar. The walls were reinforced with buttresses. During its existence, the building underwent reconstructions, the largest of which occurred at the beginning of the 18th century. At that time, a two-story monastery bell tower was erected, which has survived to our time. The church itself was destroyed during the Second World War and has reached our days in the form of ruins.

The northern cell block with a four-tiered bell tower in the Baroque style has also been preserved, which now serves as the city hall. The Museum of History and Local Lore is also located there.

The tall clock tower of the current Drohobych City Hall rose above the city in 1927, when Drohobych returned to the Polish state, but the traditions of self-government in the city are much older.

Drohobych received Magdeburg rights in 1460, and then the first wooden city hall was built. By 1829, this building was very old and unusable, so a new Austrian-style city hall was built, this time made of stone. The need for a new building arose after the First World War. The architects of the project were Yan Semkevych and Maryan Nikodymovych.

A square three-story house surrounds a small courtyard. The main building is a marble meeting hall. The building houses the Museum of Scales, which has more than 500 exhibits.

The Tourist Information Center of Drohobych is also located here, which, in particular, organizes tours to the city hall tower, which allow you to see the clock mechanism and see the best panorama of the city.

Drohobych imperial-royal gymnasium named after Frants Yosyf I was opened in Drohobych in the middle of the 19th century.

In 1867-1875, the future writer Ivan Franko studied here (a commemorative plaque was installed).

In 1896, the gymnasium was moved to a new three-story building, and the Queen Yadviha Girls' Gymnasium was located in this building.

Now the former building of the gymnasium is occupied by the Faculty of Philology of the Drohobych Pedagogical University. Adjacent to the building is the university park, in which a monument to Adam Mitskevych was erected back in 1894 (the sculpture was restored after the Second World War).

Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University of Drohobych was established in 1940.

Its main building was built in 1896 as a gymnasium, which before that was located in a smaller building at the opposite end of the University Park (now the Faculty of Philology of the University is located there).

In 1939, the world-famous writer and artist Bruno Shults, who died during the Second World War in the Drohobych ghetto, taught here. A writer's museum has been opened in Shults's teacher's office, where the first editions of his works are presented.

The Drohobych Tower is the oldest building of the early medieval period preserved in Drohobych.

Powerful stone and wooden defensive structures were built in the 13th century, during the times of the Galicia-Volyn principality.

In the 16th century, the monumental church of Saint Bartholomew was built on the territory of the castle, and the tower was used as its bell tower. In the 19th century, the rest of the city fortifications were dismantled, defensive ditches were filled in, and a third tier with arched windows was built above the bell tower.

In front of the tower is a monument to the medieval scientist Yuriy Drohobych, who was the rector of the University of Bologna and the teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The historical department, the nature department and the administration of the "Drohobychchyna" museum are located in the former building of the Drohobych County Council (1894).

The exposition of the museum, opened in 1940, was based on the collections of Count Lyantskoronsky, the Khyriv Jesuit School, as well as part of the collection of the Sambir Museum. In particular, the oldest earthenware on the territory of Prykarpattya, a bronze treasure of the Early Iron Age, a certificate of confirmation of Drohobych's Magdeburg right, scales for weighing salt, a public cash register of the 16th century, a collection of coins of the 14th-19th centuries, and others are presented.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UPA, a model diorama "Insurgent Hideout" was opened, which was made according to the description of the UPA commander Stepan Stebelskyi.

A branch of the "Drogobychchyna" museum is the historical-memorial complex "Prison on Stryiska" in the former building of the County Court.

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 wooden Church of the Epiphany in Oriavchyk was built in 1865.

An expressive example of Boyko architecture of the 19th century.

The parish belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The school ethnographic museum of Stilsko village is located in the premises of the local educational complex. Its exposition includes 460 original exhibits.

In particular, maps and drawings of the Stilsko settlement, photos from archaeological excavations are presented. The interior of a peasant's house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

The ethnographic collection includes embroidery, pottery, tools, musical instruments, etc.

The Ethnographic Museum "Ukrainian Khutir" was opened in 2024 on the territory of the eco-landscape park "Cossack Sloboda Rakovets", located in the village of Volia Yakubova in Drohobych region.

The museum complex recreates an authentic Ukrainian yard of the 18th-19th centuries: a restored Ukrainian house with a warm stove, a barn with household goods, a barn with domestic animals. In the yard there is a working Carpathian forge, a real cart, a well with a crane and a covered shelter for recreation.

The exhibition is interactive. Here you can learn to forge iron, try baking bread or smoke ribs in a painted oven. Excursions are held.

The Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine occupies a neo-Renaissance building on the main street of Lviv - Svobody Avenue.

At the base of the dome of the museum building is an allegorical sculptural group symbolizing the economic prosperity of Galicia, which is called the only sitting Statue of Liberty in the world.

The exposition of the Museum of Ethnography and Arts and Crafts presents a rich collection of ceramics, porcelain and earthenware, art glass products. Collection of watches of the XVI-XX centuries. has about 350 copies.