Attractions of Lviv region

The main railway station of Lviv is also called "Dvorets". Historically, this is the oldest railway station on the territory of Ukraine. The first train arrived in Lviv in 1861.

The current building of the station was built in 1904 according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Sadlovskyi. The facade is decorated with sculptures "Industry" and "Trade".

The National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Mariya Zankovetska, which was called the "Galician La Scala", was at one time the largest theater in Lviv.

Built in 1837-1842 at the expense of Count Stanislav Skarbek (the letter "W" of his coat of arms "Abdank" is preserved on the portal). The project of the building in the style of Viennese classicism, about 96 meters long, 76 meters wide and covering an area of ​​more than 7,000 square meters, was developed by architects Lyudvig Pihl and Yohann Salzmann. Three horses could enter under the portal with six Ionic columns. A progressive at that time heating and ventilation system was provided.

Niccolo Paganini, Ferenc Liszt, Sarah Bernard performed on this stage.

In 1923, the tetra was named after Mariya Zankovetska.

The museum-reserve of the Ukrainian writer Markiyan Shashkevych was opened in 1986 in his native village of Pidlyssia on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of his birth. It is located on the territory of the restored manor of the Shashkevych family.

Markiyan Shashkevych, a religious and cultural and public figure, the initiator of the new Ukrainian literature, the "awakener" of national consciousness in Galicia, was born in Pidlyssia in 1811, and spent his childhood years there.

The first Shashkevych museum room was opened at the local library back in 1959. Later, according to descriptions and documents, the Shashkevych estate was recreated, including his grandfather's house. The house reproduces the Western Ukrainian lifestyle of the first half of the 19th century.

The exposition reveals the difficult life path, priestly, social and creative activities of Markiyan Shashkevych, in particular his chairmanship of the "Ruthenian Triad" (Ruska Triytsia) society. The central place is given to the edition of "The Mermaid of Dniester" - a folk-literary almanac, printed in 1837 in a lively colloquial Ukrainian language. Among Shashkevych's personal belongings are presented a casket and a tuning fork, handed over from Poland by Yulian Kupchynskyi.

A well and an old oak from the time of the spiritual enlightener have been preserved on the territory of the manor. A bust of Markiyan Shashkevych by Dmytro Krvavych is installed near the museum.

Museum-Reserve of Markiyan Shashkevych is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

The local history museum of the village of Markopil is located in the premises of the Markopil secondary school.

Since 1998 he has been working on a voluntary basis. The museum exposition is divided into the periods "Ancient History", "Markopil Castle", "Markopil during the World Wars", "School Education of Markopil".

The museum has about 1,000 exhibits.

The castle-palace of the magnate Mars family was built in Sudova Vyshnia in the 18th-19th centuries at the height of historicism. It is an architectural monument of local importance.

A park designed by Arnold Rerinh was planted around the palace. The last owner, at the beginning of the 20th century (until 1939), was the owner of the brick factory Yan Mars.

In Soviet times, the building housed a dormitory of a zoo-veterinary technical school. Currently, the palace is in a dilapidated state due to a fire that occurred in 1993.

In 2023, the ruins of the Palace of Mars were sold at auction. The new owner of the historic building was the "Foundation of the Ukrainian-Polish People's History" LLC from Rivne. As one of the future projects, the new owners are considering social housing for internally displaced persons during the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Church of Mary the Snowy in the Stariy Rynok district in Lviv is one of the oldest churches in the city.

Built in the 14th century by German colonists next to the old market square. The church was first mentioned in documents in 1352.

The original appearance of the building was greatly changed by subsequent reconstructions in the 17th and 19th centuries. After the last reconstruction, carried out by the architect Yulian Zakharevych, the church became a single-nave, basilica type, with an elongated altar part, a square vestibule and a square two-story bell tower.

Previously, the interior was decorated with frescoes of 1750-1751 by the artist Stanislav Stroyinsky. In their place in the 19th century, the artist Edvard Lyepshy executed new paintings imitating mosaics.

Today it is the church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.

The memorial cemetery of the soldiers of the Halychyna SS division and the First Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army was opened in 1994 near Zolochiv, not far from the place where the division broke out of the encirclement in 1944.

The remains of more than 500 soldiers, including not only the division's fighters, but also Soviet soldiers and Wehrmacht servicemen who died in the battles near Brody, were reburied at the cemetery.

A chapel was built at the cemetery, on the walls of which four memorial plaques are mounted, which tell about the combat path of the "Halychyna" division.

The memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine" was opened in 2005 on the territory of the former Stryi city prison, which operated from 1898 to 1963. It is part of the Stryi Local Lore Museum "Verkhovyna".

The exposition of the unique museum-prison is devoted to political prisoners tortured here in different periods by the Austro-Hungarians, the Polish authorities and the Soviet regime. The most terrible page of history is the mass execution of political prisoners in 1941 before the retreat of the Red Army.

The memorial complex includes a symbolic wrought-iron fence, fragments of walls with barred windows, a watchtower, an entrance arch with a crown of thorns, a two-story museum building, a mourning wall, a sarcophagus tomb, and a Pieta monument.

The Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror" was opened in Lviv on the territory of transit prison No. 25.

The prison was established in 1944 by the Soviet occupation administration, which replaced the Nazi one. During the Second World War, this place was the Lviv ghetto.

The museum complex has two barracks, watchtowers, barbed wire fence and other infrastructure facilities.

The museum tells the story of political, social, ethnic and religious repressions of totalitarian regimes against the population living in Ukraine.

The Church-Museum of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was built in the village of Prylbychi in the Lviv region, which for several centuries was the ancestral estate of the Sheptytsky family.

The two-story Sheptytsky family palace was located here, where Count Andrey Sheptytsky and his brother Klymentiy Sheptytsky were born.

In 1998, on the site of the manor destroyed during the Soviet era, the construction of a temple-museum complex began according to the original project of the famous Lviv architect Oleh Bodnar. The complex was inaugurated in 2015 to mark the centenary of the birth of Andrey Sheptytsky.

A multimedia hall and information stands are available to visitors. The formation of a museum exposition of exhibits related to the life of the Sheptytsky family, the childhood and youth years of their outstanding children, continues.

In 2011, the first monument to Metropolitan Andrey and his brother the blessed holy martyr Klymentiy Sheptytsky was erected in front of the church.

A monument to Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi was opened in 2015 on the square in front of Saint George's Cathedral in Lviv.

Metropolitan Sheptytskyi is one of the most respected Ukrainian hierarchs. For more than 50 years, he was the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with a residence in Lviv.

The 3.6-meter-high monument is made of bronze. The total height of the composition is about 5.8 meters. The sculptor is Andriy Koverko, the architects are Ihor Kuzmak and Mykhaylo Fedyk.

The military cemetery of the First World War is located in the rural cemetery on the outskirts of Hlynsk.

Soldiers who died in 1915 during the campaign of the Austro-Hungarian army to Lviv occupied by Russian troops are buried here. Nearby are Ukrainians, Poles, Germans and Hungarians.

The entire cemetery is crowned by a rectangular memorial column, as a symbol of the triumph of the Austro-Hungarian troops over the Russians. On the four sides of the column, dedications to the fallen soldiers are written in four languages - German, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Polish.

The battle that took place in the vicinity of the village of Hlynsk on June 21, 1915, enabled the troops of General Bom-Ermoli to liberate Lviv from Russian troops. Reburials were carried out in July 2015.

"Naftusya" source No. 1 is the most famous and popular among the drinking sources of the resort.

Buvet No. 1 is located in the center of the Truskavets resort.

"Naftusya" water belongs to weakly mineralized waters (mineralization, 0.7 grams per liter) and chemically belongs to the class of hydrocarbonate-sulfate-calcium-magnesium mineral waters.

As the very name "Naftusya" shows, it contains organic substances related to the Boryslav oil field: phenols, heavy acids of the saturated petroleum series, a small amount of hydrogen sulfide, and impurities of volatile sulfurous hydrocarbons. This gives the water a specific smell and taste of oil.

Water obtained directly from the source releases gas bubbles on the walls of a closed vessel during storage. When stored in an open container for several hours, the smell and taste of oil, as well as gas bubbles, disappear.

According to its physical and chemical composition and physiological effect on the body, "Naftusya" is a unique water and has no equal in any of the resorts. It has a beneficial effect and is indicated for patients suffering from kidney stone disease, uric acid diathesis, gout and other metabolic diseases. "Naftusya" also stimulates the choleretic, bile-secreting functions of the liver and the activity of many other organs.

A new exhibition of contemporary art of the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery - Modernism Museum - opened in 2021 in a modern two-storey office building made of silicate brick, erected in Soviet times behind the Potocki Palace.

A retrospective of Lviv art from early modern experiments to examples of the aesthetics of late structuralism is unfolded in the seven halls of the museum.

The exhibition hall of historical avant-garde and high modernism of 1914-1939 begins the exposition. The next section illustrates the existential sensitivity of postwar society and the state of social alienation of Lviv intellectuals in the days of totalitarian pressure of 1939-1953, in particular the work of Karl Zvirynsky and the artists of his "hermetic circle". The following are the works of artists of 1960-1970: Yevhen Lysyk, Lubomyr Medvid, Ivan Ostafiychuk, Roman Zhuk, Roman Petruk, whose works trace the influences of European trends: Dadaism, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism, as well as the large-scale phenomenon of the "Lviv neo-avant-garde".

The last halls exhibit the works of the final phase of modern aesthetics and visualize the transitional period between Lviv modernism and postmodernism. The works of Myroslav Yahoda, Roman Zhuk, Rostyslav Lakh, and Andriy Sahaydakovsky reveal the phenomenon of anti-social alienation, close to the Western definition of "trans-avant-garde."

The Annunciation Basilian Monastery in Pidhirtsi, or simply the Pidhirtsi Monastery, was founded in the 17th century on the hill on which the ancient Rus city of Plisnesk (10th-13th centuries) stood during the early Middle Ages.

Back in 1180, Princess Olena, daughter of Prince Vsevolod of Belz, founded the first monastery at this place. The defensive ramparts of the hillfort have been partially preserved around. The baroque Saint Onufriy church with a sundial on the facade was built in 1750. A magnificent three-dimensional iconostasis with sculptures by Pavlo Hizhytskyi has been preserved.

In 1861, the first memorial service for the death of Taras Shevchenko in the western Ukrainian lands was held here.

Now the complex belongs to the Greek Catholic Church. The full name of the monastery is the Monastery of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the rank of Saint Basil the Great.

Excavations are underway on the site of an ancient Rus temple.