Attractions of Lviv region

The Holy Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych was built in 1690-1709 in the Baroque style as a Catholic church of the Carmelite monastery.

In 1808, the church passed to the Basilians and was consecrated as the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity. In 1909, an iconostasis was installed (carving was performed by Lviv master Andriy Sabaray, icons were painted by Modest Sosenko). In the 1930s, the walls were painted by Ivan Bal.

In recent years, the Trinity Cathedral in Drohobych was completely restored. Currently, it is the main church of the Sambir-Drohobych eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

On the anniversary of the execution of the participants of the Revolution of Dignity on the Maidan in Kyiv, a memorial sign was installed on the facade of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in honor of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and fallen soldiers of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Parish Museum, created in 2014 on the first anniversary of Bishop Yuliyan's death, operates in the basement of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The museum premises consist of three halls.

In the first hall, antimins consecrated by bishops in various historical periods of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as liturgical books and items of church use, are on display for inspection. ​In the second hall, personal belongings and paraphernalia related to the activities of Bishop Yuliyan (Voronovsky) are on display. In the third hall (crypts for burials), bishop vestments and liturgy items used by Bishop Yuliyan are on display.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Shchyrets was founded in the 16th century. In the first half of the 19th century, it was rebuilt and acquired a modern appearance.

Composed of limestone, single-nave. The western facade is finished with a high pincer, decorated on the sides with decorative vases. Covered with a pitched roof, finished in the center with a signature. The undivided surfaces of the walls are enlivened by sparsely spaced semicircular window and door openings.

In Soviet times, the museum of atheism was located here.

The Trinity Church belongs to the few works of the Galician school of architecture of the 16th century.

The belfry is wooden, square in plan, three-tiered, frame construction, finished with a tent. It rests on a stone fence made of limestone from the south and east.

The Church of the Holy Trinity was founded in Sokolivka (the former town of Senyava) in 1594 at the expense of the owner of the town, Anna Senyavska. The construction was completed around 1600 by the Belgian castellan Stanislav Vlodek.

The temple had defensive significance. At the beginning of the 16th century, it was surrounded by stone fortifications with corner towers, which were rebuilt in the 17th century.

Until the 19th century, the Trinity Church had 3 altars, its interior was decorated with sculptures and paintings.

The altar part was destroyed during the Second World War, and the building itself began to collapse even today, after the roof collapsed.

The wooden church of the Cathedral of Holy Virgin is located in Verkhnie Synovydne on the monastery site of the Golden Mountain, where in ancient times there was a monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos, which was visited by Prince Danylo Halytskyi.

After the monastery was destroyed in the 16th century, the monastery was empty for some time. In 1790, the church of Saint George (Yuriy) was founded in the northeastern part of the former monastery (perhaps on the site of the former monastery church).

The current church was built on the site of the fallen predecessor in 1939 according to the project of the architect Yevhen Nahirnyi.

Today it is the church of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (the Cathedral of the Mother of God).

The wooden church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Matkiv is located on a low hill in the center of the village and occupies a dominant place in the panorama of the mountain village.

The church was built by Boyko masters Ivan Melnykovych and Vasyl Ivanykovych, and is characterized by an unusual multi-tiered structure. In plan, the temple consists of three square log cabins: a larger central one and smaller side ones. All log cabins are covered with helmet-shaped partitions with intercepts on pyramidal figures of eight with folds (the central head has five folds, the lateral ones have four folds each).

The Holy Virgin Cathedral Church in Matkiv is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in the category "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region of Ukraine".

Nearby is a wooden belfry built in 1924 with a balcony on the second floor.

Both buildings are considered masterpieces of the Boyko school of folk architecture.

The chapel in honor of the victory near Khotyn is located at the entrance to the village of Novyi Myliatyn on the route Kyiv - Lviv.

The monument was erected by order of King Yan III Sobesky in honor of the joint victory of the Cossacks led by Petro Sahaydachny and the Polish army near Khotyn in 1621.

The chapel has the form of a three-tier tower-pillar with niches in the form of arches on each tier.

The main building of the Lviv State University of Life Safety was built in 1855-1863 by order of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph as a House for the Invalids to care for veterans of the Austrian army.

The three- to four-story building in the neo-Romanesque style with towers and a courtyard was designed by the architect Teofil Edvard Hansen.

In 1939-1941, the NKVD regiment was stationed here. During the Second World War, the building was not damaged, and a military unit was located in it again.

Since 1954, the former House for the Invalids has been home to a fire-technical school - now the University of Life Safety.

The picturesque and full-water Gurkalo waterfall is a hydrological monument of nature.

It is located on the territory of the National Nature Park "Skolivski Beskydy" at an altitude of 570 meters above sea level, on the slope of Mount Parashka at the mouth of the Velyka Richka River.

It was formed at the place of the breakthrough of Paleogene sandstones. The height is about 5 meters. The Hurkalo waterfall is surrounded by a forest, and there are several meadows nearby for relaxation.

You can get there from the village of Korchyn or from the village of Krushelnytsia, from which a marked path leads to the Hurkalo waterfall. Due to the bad condition of the road, it is very difficult to enter by car.

The Iliv settlement-sanctuary of the 8th–10th centuries is a part of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Stilsko Settlement".

It is located 5 kilometers to the east of the Stilsko settlement, the ancient capital of the Slavic tribe of White Croats.

The settlement is located on a promontory of the plateau at a height of about 80 meters above the Ilovets River, which washes its foothills partly from the northern and western sides. Traces of two concentric defensive ramparts and ditches are still visible on the high, rocky, forest-covered Tokareva Mountain, which rises above the southern outskirts of the village of Iliv. There is also a rock with three small caves. One of them is a cave-room, hollowed out of the rock by human hands. The entrance to the cave is made in the form of a woman's womb. Perhaps the goddess Mokosha was once worshiped here.

Presumably, the Iliv settlement was the main sanctuary of the White Croats. Later, monks settled in the caves, and during the Second World War, local residents and UPA soldiers hid here.

A very steep path equipped with a wooden handrail leads to the cave complex.

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lopatyn was built in 1772 at the expense of Adam Kholonevsky based on one of the projects previously developed by the Lviv architect Bernard Meretyn.

Before that, there was a wooden church in Lopatyn. The new Catholic church - a replica of the Church of the Holy Cross in Berezdivtsi - was built in a magnificent baroque style and decorated with rich frescoes by Stanislav Stroyinskyi. The consecration took place in 1828.

After the Second World War, the shrine was closed, and the icon of the Mother of God of Lopatyn, which was kept in the church, was taken to Poland.

Today, the Church of the Virgin Mary has been returned to the faithful and restored at the expense of the Polish public.

The Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bibrka was built in 1905-1906. It was built on the site of an old wooden church, which was walled up with stone walls.

The church with one large dome over the main nave was built according to the design of the Lviv architect Vasyl Nahirny. The building has features of the Byzantine style with elements of classicism.

The consecration ceremony of the new church was held by the Metropolitan of the UGCC Andrei Sheptytsky. He was also praying in the Bibrka church when he was arrested in 1914.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built in Lviv in 1745 in the late Baroque style.

At one time, it served as the second temple of the Catholic Trinitarian monastery, then it was a parish and Jesuit church.

Today it is the Holy Intercession Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Ivan Franko Literary and Memorial Museum-Manor was created in the writer's homeland in the village of Nahuievychi.

He was born here in 1856 in the family of a blacksmith, spent his childhood, and then repeatedly returned to his native places. In his works, he vividly described his childhood memories, when he spent time in his father's forge as a child.

The first exhibition was opened in 1946 in the small house of the writer's nephew. Later, on the site of Franko's estate, his parents' house with cozy rooms was recreated according to his descriptions and photographs. In the colorful yard - a stable, a forge, a shed with tools and an apiary.

Opposite is the building of the Literary and Memorial Museum with an exhibition of the first editions of the writer's works, next to which is the sculptural group "Ivan Franko and World Literature".

At the entrance to the village of Nahuievychi, as well as in Franko's garden, carved wooden sculptures symbolizing ideals, literary heroes and close people of the writer have been installed.

The ecological and educational route "Ivan Franko Trail" on the outskirts of the village of Nahuievychi is an art-memorial complex created in 1981 in the park area at the entrance to the village from the Drohobych side.

Wooden sculptures of characters from the writer's works are placed along the picturesque forest alley. Along the two-kilometer route, you can visit the "Field of Fairy Tales" with wooden sculptures of the heroes of Franko's fairy tales, the Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin, the Summer Theater, the bridge.

Oaks, firs, ash trees, maples, beeches and spruces are found in the forest. There are places for rest.

The Museum-Studio of Architect Ivan Levynskyi in Lviv opened in 2025 in one of the premises where the ceramic factory he founded was once located. Decorative ceramics, plaster decorations, and carpentry workshops were produced here. The building now belongs to the design company "A7 Hub", which initiated the opening of the museum.

The thematic museum space is dedicated to the activities of the outstanding Ukrainian architect, builder, and industrialist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Ivan Levynskyi. He is considered the inventor of a unique authentic Ukrainian style in applied arts and architecture.

The museum's exposition features a collection of artifacts found on the factory's territory, as well as samples of products it produced. The main highlight is a plastic portrait of Ivan Levynskyi, made by the famous Lviv sculptor Viktor Prodanchuk.

In one of the halls, a gallery of student projects from the Department of Architectural Environment Design of the Institute of Architecture and Design of Lviv Polytechnic is exhibited, in which young architects experiment with ideas for revitalizing factory buildings and creating creative spaces for work and study.