Attractions of Lviv district

The oldest pharmacy in Lviv has been operating on Rynok Square for almost 300 years.

The pharmacy in the townhouse "Under the Black Eagle" was opened in 1735 by a military pharmacist Frants Vilhelm Natorp, as evidenced by a wrought-iron sign with the emblem of medicine above the entrance. On both sides of the neat portal there are relief portraits of the god of healing Aesculapius and his daughter - the goddess of health Hygiene.

The old interior of the trade hall, paintings by Viennese masters on the ceiling, antique scales and cash registers have been preserved.

In 1966, the Museum of the History of Pharmacy opened here, with an exposition of more than 3,000 exhibits. In the exhibition halls you can see a variety of pharmaceutical devices, reconstruction of the pharmacist's home, an underground alchemical laboratory.

The courtyard recreates the view of the house of a rich burgher of the XVI-XVII centuries.

Pharmacy "Under the Black Eagle" continues to serve people today, becoming a state pharmacy № 15. In addition to drugs, you can buy the world-famous "Iron Wine" (aqueous solution of iron sugar used in iron deficiency anemia) and the popular Lviv tincture "Vihor", which is considered a means of increasing potency. Memorable souvenirs are also sold here.

The most luxurious palace in Lviv was created for the influential Polish magnates Potocki according to the project of the union of Lviv architects Lyudvih Baldvin-Ramult, Yuliush Tsybulsky, Petro Harasymovych and Leonard Markoni.

The customer was Count Alfred II Yuzef Potocki, his son Roman Potocki was completing the construction. The historicist-style palace is modeled on the entre cour et jardin residences of King Louis XIV of the Baroque Classicist era, when clear planning combined with rich exterior design.

Interiors in the style of King Louis XVI have been preserved. In particular, on the ground floor there are ceremonial halls for the reception of guests, in the design of which stucco, gilding, colored marble, painting are widely used. In Soviet times, the Palace of Marriages was located here.

In 2007, the Potocki Palace opened the Museum of European Art of the XIV-XVIII centuries - a department of the Lviv National Art Gallery named after Borys Voznytskyi. On the second floor there is one of the richest collections of European art in Ukraine, including "Catching Corals and Pearls" by Jacopo Zucchi, "Payment" by Georges de La Tour, "Portrait of a Young Patrician" by Sofonisba Anguissola, "Allegory of Divine Mercy" by an unknown German artist, "The Visit of Mary Elizabeth" by Jan van Scorel, sketches of monumental paintings by Paul Troger, Joseph Winterhalter, Franz Anton Maulbertsch and others.

The Park of Castles and Defense Structures of Ancient Ukraine has been opened in the courtyard of the Potocki Palace. Architect Ihor Kachor created 1:50 scale models of 18 fortifications that exist now or existed earlier on the historical territory of Ukraine-Russia. Entrance to the territory is free.

The Pyatnychany Tower is considered a rare monument of defensive architecture of the Galician school and, perhaps, one of the oldest fortifications in Galicia.

According to one version, the fortification in Pyatnychany dates back to princely times. The tower was part of the defensive yard of the noble family of Vnuchek, the first written mention of which dates back to 1454. The defensive yard was located on a hillside in the western part of the village. Pyatnychany.

It was a characteristic stone-wooden fortification of the cape type. The only stone tower, which was adjoined by wooden walls, in plan has the shape of an almost regular square with sides of 7.83x7.4 m. The height of the walls reaches 9.5 m.

For a long time the Pyatnychany tower remained dilapidated, it was restored only in 1990-1991 In particular, the drawbridge was restored, which rises on the principle of counterweight.

Since 1995, the Pyatnychany Tower Museum of Defense Architecture has been a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. The exposition of the museum is located on the second and third tiers of the stone gate tower.

Archaeological finds from the territory of the former defense yard, a map of defense construction and well-known examples of military architecture of the Galicia-Volyn principality are exhibited.

The first retro motorcycle museum was opened in Horodok by collector Ostap Boyko and his friends from the ZAZ-Kozak club.

The exposition presents 50 rare motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and motorcycles of the post-war period. Among them are not only Java, Minsk, Voskhod, Izh, Dnipro and other Soviet-made cars, but also Italian, Polish, German, and French brands. All models have been restored, half of them are still running.

The oldest exhibit is a military trailer manufactured in Switzerland in 1944.

On the basis of the "Dnipro" K650 motorcycle, Lviv restorers created a sanitary motorcycle. You can also see a classic "carriage" motorcycle of the Soviet-era patrol service.

P.S. For technical reasons, "Retro Moto Museum" is ceasing its activity at 2 Romana Dashkevycha Street. Currently, the "Retro Moto Museum" team is considering other options for the location of the museum and promises to please with new interesting projects and exhibitions.

The mysterious monument, located by the road leading from the city of Komarno to the village of Kletsko, causes controversy about what it was erected in honor of. On the pedestal of the three-meter obelisk there is a Latin inscription: "My death is your life" and the dates "1641" and "1663".

According to the official version, the monument was built in honor of the victory over the Turks and Tatars. Some associate it with the events of 1672, when the Polish troops of Crown Hetman Yan Sobeskyi defeated the Tatar army of Nureddin-Sultan, which was five times larger, near Komarno, but this does not explain the dates indicated on the monument. Other researchers consider the obelisk to be a tombstone on the grave of a young nobleman who lived in the specified period. It is also possible that the monument was erected in honor of the construction of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, and the dates indicate the year of the destruction of the old wooden church and the final completion of the construction of the new one.

The Royal Arsenal of Lviv was built in the Baroque style by the architect Pavlo Grodzytskyi by order of the Polish King Vladyslav IV.

As a strategically important city, Lviv had two arsenals. The city arsenal was formed by the citizens of the city, and the royal was maintained at the expense of the monarch. Since 1939, the Royal Arsenal has housed the Lviv Regional State Archive.

In 1977, a monument to the first printer Ivan Fedoriv was erected in front of the Royal Arsenal building, opened for the 400th anniversary of printing in Ukrainian lands. Near the monument is a second-hand market, popular with foreign tourists. Traders of old books and antiques gather here.

The architectural ensemble of Rynok (Vicheva) Square in the Renaissance style creates a surprisingly harmonious medieval atmosphere of the "ideal city" in Zhovkva.

The general planning and projects of the main buildings were developed by the architect of Italian origin Pavlo Shchaslyvy. Among them, the Zhovkva Castle and the Church of Saint Lawrence dominate. The Zvirinetsky Gate (XVII century) leads to the castle park. The City Hall (XVII-XX centuries) rises between the castle and Hlynska Brama. The square is surrounded by Renaissance buildings with arcaded galleries, in which cafes and shops are located. On the northwestern side is the Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ (XVII century).

Since 1994, the central part of the city has the status of a historical and architectural reserve, restoration work continues.

The Monastery of the Sacraments (Benedictine nuns of continuous worship of the Holy Mysteries) with the Church of the Engagement of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph was built in Lviv in 1744-1780 on the site of a half-timbered church founded in 1718.

The neo-baroque tower was built during reconstruction in 1884-1887 according to the project of Adolf Minasevych.

In 1995, the church was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Lviv Archdiocese named after Father Anton Petrushevych Curia of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was opened in 2008 in the restored church of Saint Klymentiy Sheptytsky.

An exposition of monuments of iconographic art collected by Studite monks after the legalization of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is presented.

Saint Anna's School was founded in Lviv at the Church of Saint Anna in 1791.

The current building in the English neo-Gothic style was built in 1884 according to the project of the architect Yuliush Hokhberger.

Since 2009, the Lviv Law School has been located here.

The Church of Saint Anna was founded in Lviv as a Catholic church in 1507 on the spot where apprentice tailors who fled the city were killed and buried by the city guard.

The first wooden temple burned down several times. In its current form, the church of Saint Anna was rebuilt in 1730 by the Augustinian order. The transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque is noticeable in the architecture. The bell tower was added in 1927 by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the dome is made in the Art Deco style.

Today it is the church of Saint Anna of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Lviv is an excellent example of church architecture in the Baroque style.

The Franciscan Church of Saint. Anthony was founded in 1618-1630 outside the then city walls, and was originally wooden.

The current stone temple was built at the expense of Prince Kostyantyn-Kryshtof Korybut Vyshnevetsky, consecrated in 1739. Some sources date the founding of the wooden church in 1718, and the construction of the stone church in 1784. It is also known about the reconstruction of the temple in 1765 by the architect Frantsysk Kulchytskyi.

In 1818, a bell tower was built according to the project of the architect Yozef Markl.

The Church of Saint Anthony remained active even in Soviet times.

The rich interior decoration of the temple has been preserved to this day. The interior is refined and beautiful: the magnificent carvings and gilding in the Rococo style are impressive. On the parapet of the stairs in front of the entrance is a stone sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Sebastyan Fesinhera(XVIII century).

Now the church again belongs to the Franciscans. In 1995, it was declared the sanctuary of Saint Anthony of Padua.

The wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Volia-Vysotska is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches of the Lviv region.

In the interior you can see the iconostasis of 1655, some of the icons for which were executed in 1688-1689 by the artist Ivan Rutkovych.During the restoration in 1992, paintings from 1611 were also discovered, which are considered to be among the oldest in wooden churches in Ukraine.

The monastery complex with the church of Saint Clement of the Pope was built in Lviv in 1893-1895 by the builder Ivan Levynskyi according to the project of Frants Shtatts for the Catholic female monastic order of the Discalced Carmelites.

In 1939, the headquarters of the NKVD was located here. In 1943, the Nazis shot Italian prisoners of war on the territory of the monastery garden and cemetery. After the Second World War, until 1952, the guard regiment of the NKVD-MIA was housed in the buildings of the monastery. Later, this unit was based on the southern outskirts of the city, and the monastery complex was taken over by the city's ATS - the temple housed an operating room for settlements with clients. In the 1960s, during renovation and construction works, the remains of the repressed were found here.

Currently, the church of Saint Clement of the Pope is an active church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Discovered in one of the brick niches, the figure of the crucified Christ without hands is now installed in the altar of the church.

Since 1708, when the Lviv Assumption Stavropygius brotherhood converted to Greek Catholicism, the Orthodox community of Lviv did not have its own church, services were held in private homes.

The construction of the Orthodox Church of Saint Great Martyr George, according to the project of the Austrian architect Gustav Zakhs, began in Lviv in 1897. The image of the church, which is atypical for Galician sacral architecture, combines features of the neo-Romanesque and neo-Byzantine styles, which are more typical for Bukovyna.

From 1992 to April 2023, the Church of Saint George was the cathedral of the Lviv Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the only church in Lviv that belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate. Today, the church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.