Attractions of Lviv district

The museum of authentic clothing and adornment from all regions of Ukraine was opened in Lviv by collector and ethnographer Roksolyana Shymchuk in 2024. The exposition is located in the basement of the Lviv Art Palace.

The founder of the museum began collecting her collection in the early 1990s. For over 30 years, she has sought out and restored vintage clothing, adornment and headwear. Now her collection includes several thousand examples of Ukrainian folk applied art.

Only a part of the collection is presented in the museum exposition. Here you can see the folk costumes of Hutsulshchyna, Boykivshchyna, Pokuttya, Bukovyna, Podillya, Lviv region, Volyn, Dnipro region, and Left Bank Ukraine.

By prior agreement, the founder of the museum conducts author's tours. On the first floor, there is an ethno-gallery, where you can buy modern designer items and adornment, the author of which is Roksolyana Shymchuk.

The wooden Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist in Horodok is a sample of Galician folk architecture, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Galicia.

Saint John's Church was founded in 1403 in the Cherlyanskyi suburb near the town of Horodok. It burned twice in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was rebuilt in its current form in 1755.

The wall painting was made by the artist Fedir Shcherbokoskyi in 1861. A small stone chapel of the Beheading of the Head of John the Baptist is attached to the church. In 1863, a three-tiered stone bell tower was built, which became a symbol of the city.

In Soviet times, the church was inactive, but in 1980 a complete restoration was carried out, which saved it from destruction.

The Church of John the Baptist in Horodok has the status of an architectural monument of national significance. Today it is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The active Lviv synagogue "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" (translated from Hebrew - "House of Aaron and Israel") is located near the railway station.

The building, built in 1897, originally belonged to Moses Grifeld, a member of the Tsori Gilod Jewish Society.

In 1923-1925, according to the project of the architect Albert Kornbluth, the building was rebuilt as a synagogue. The two halls of the prayer house were designed for 384 seats. The central lamp of the main hall is decorated with a stained glass window in the form of a Star of David. The walls were painted by the artist Maximilian Kugel.

During the Second World War, the building was not damaged - it housed a warehouse.

Since 1989, the service has been resumed. The restoration was carried out in 2007. In the interior of the "Beis Aharon ve-Israel" synagogue, a polychrome painting has been preserved. The synagogue has a kosher kitchen and a mikvah.

The ensemble of the Benedictine monastery in Lviv - the church and the monastery building - was built with the participation of the architect Pavlo Rymlyanin. It has a pronounced defensive character.

The Church of All Saints is a small stone building, rectangular in plan. Adjacent to the south-eastern part is a two-story building of cells, which has preserved techniques and elements of Renaissance architecture. The complex is surrounded by walls with baroque gates of the 17th century.

Today it is an active Holy Intercession Monastery of the Sisters of the Studio Statute.

The monastery of the Bernardine order in Lviv with the church of Saint Andrew the First-Called in the 17th century was a separate fortification unit outside the city.

It was surrounded by a moat, a rampart and a defensive wall, which is partially preserved, with a tower of the Hlynyansky Gate overlooking the Customs Square. Powerful monastery fortifications were connected with a ring of city walls.

The Church of Saint Andrew was built in the years 1600-1630 according to the project of architects Bernard Avelides and Pavlo Rymlyanin in the Renaissance style. The lush interior is made in the Baroque style, there are many wooden altars of the 18th century. The decorative column in front of the facade was installed in 1736 in honor of Saint John of Dukla, the patron saint of the Bernardines.

The premises of the monastery now belong to the Central State Archives of Lviv, and the church of Andrew the First-Called was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

One of the most interesting examples of Lviv Renaissance architecture in the ensemble of Rynok Square is the Lorentsovych house, better known as the "Black House" (Chorna Kamyanytsya).

Built in 1577 by architect Petro Krasovskyi. Pharmacist Yan Lorentsovych opened one of the first pharmacies in Lviv here. During the XVI-XIX centuries, the house changed owners many times, as well as completed and rebuilt. Initially, the building was not black, but under the influence of precipitation, the sandstone masonry was greatly darkened, and now it is specially painted black.

Back in 1926, the city bought the "Black House" from the last owner and opened the Museum of the History of Lviv, which is now a department of the Lviv Historical Museum. The almost 800-year history of the city is represented on three floors by authentic objects of XIV-XX centuries: symbolic keys to the city, seals of the magistrate, inaugural chains of the president and mayor, benches from the conference hall, portraits of city leaders, coats of arms of Lviv in different historical periods. You can see a model of princely Lviv of the XIII-XIV centuries and a model of the Renaissance town hall.

In the courtyard and the first floor there is a Lapidarium - an exposition of stone monuments of Lviv: carved from stone architectural and sculptural fragments, parts of old monuments, epitaphs, etc. In total, about 50 samples of stone sculpture from ancient, mostly non-existent, buildings in Lviv.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Central Park of Culture and Rest is located in the central part of Lviv, on the slope of the hill between Stryiska, Heroiv Maidanu, Vitovskoho and Zarytskyh streets. A recreation and entertainment zone existed here as early as the 19th century.

The modern park was laid out in 1951 and arranged according to the Soviet traditions of creating typical parks of culture and rest for working people. From those times, the central avenue with a length of more than 800 meters, the colonnade of the central entrance and the premises of the "Druzhba" cinema have been preserved. In 1970, the central entrance was decorated with fountains.

Since 1984, the Park of Culture has the status of a monument of garden and park art of local importance. There is a children's entertainment zone "Zhu-Zhu Park" and a park of moving dinosaur figures on the territory.

Street cafes and restaurants are open. Various festivals and fairs are held regularly.

The Austrian fort in Briukhovychi was built in 1912 on Zyavlenska Hora, at the foot of which passes the road to Lviv.

On the western edge of the mountain there are 4 covered brick galleries with a reinforced concrete floor. Two of them are straight, and two are curved in a quarter circle. Rifle galleries have wide loopholes connected by trenches. At the top of the fort there is a gun shelter. From the east, the complex is protected by earth fortifications.

Fort "Zyavlenska Hora" in Briukhovychi did not take an active part in hostilities. The Russian army during the offensive bypassed the fort from the flanks, and the garrison left it. Later, the fortifications were used during the Ukrainian-Polish war of 1918-1919 and during the defense of Lviv in 1939.

The private museum of carriages in Lviv operates on the basis of the horse club "Carriage Yard", where Tori horses are bred.

The exposition presents 14 carriages of different types: landau, fiakr, phaeton, tarantas, visavi, etc. "Carriage Yard" also offers hippotherapy, horse riding lessons, horse tourism and a carriage tour through the streets of old Lviv.

The Catholic chapel in the neo-Gothic style is located in the cemetery of Mali Pidlisky, right at the intersection of the roads to Lutsk and Rivne.

Remains of polychromy and a small tetrapod have been preserved in the interior.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin  (Voloska) in Lviv is a landmark of Galicia's Renaissance architecture.

For a long time, the temple was made of wood. The construction of the stone church began in the 15th century and lasted for more than four decades (architect Pavlo Rimlyanin) at the expense of the Ukrainian (Rus) community, as well as the Moldavian (Volochian) master Oleksandr Lopushanin, for which the church received its second name. The Orthodox community of the city was concentrated around the temple.

Built in 1572, the belfry (height 66 meters) is called the Kornyakt tower in honor of the Greek merchant and philanthropist who promoted Orthodoxy in Lviv.

In the interior there is a painting of the XVII-XVIII centuries, an iconostasis of 1773, stained glass windows by Petro Kholodnyi. The Chapel of the Three Saints (1578-1591) was combined with the Church of the Assumption in the middle of the 19th century.

The parish belongs to the Lviv Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Horodok City Hall in the classicist style was built in 1832 as the premises of the Horodok magistrate.

The two-story U-shaped building is crowned by a clock tower with small balconies, which houses a clock with four dials (year 2004) and the coat of arms of the city. Previously, the tower was completed by a pointed roof with a weather vane.

The building of the Horodotsk town hall is still used for its intended purpose - the Horodok City Council meets in it.

The first floor also houses the Horodok Historical and Local Lore Museum (2010).

A wide exposition of archaeological finds, household items and folk clothing is presented.

Separate stands are dedicated to the periods of the Liberation War of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Battle of Horodok in 1655) and the liberation struggle of 1918-1920 (the Volchukhiv operation of the UGA).

The Neo-Renaissance-style Zhovkva City Hall is part of the Rynok Square ensemble.

The first city hall in Zhovkva was built by architect Peter Beber in 1687. A sundial and a sample arshin were placed on its walls. The old building was dismantled in 1832 due to its state of disrepair, and for a whole century the magistrate sat in the castle.

The current city hall was built in 1932. It was built according to the competitive project of the architect Bronislav Viktor on the site of the former barracks and casemates.

In pre-war times, the city trumpeter played the tune "heynal" at noon from the clock tower. Now, at noon, the bells of the clock play a part of the national anthem of Ukraine.

In the tower of the city hall there is a historical and local lore exposition "Museum "Zhovkva Tower" with access to the observation deck.

The monument to King Danylo Halytskyi, the founder of Lviv and the creator of the Galician-Volyn state, was erected for the 745th anniversary of the city.

Prince Danylo Romanovych from the Galician branch of the Rurik family united the country by force, defeating the regiments of Hungarian and Polish feudal lords, as well as Galician boyars in 1245.

The project of the monument was developed by the sculptors Yarych and Romanovych, as well as the architect Churylyk. The monument is a bronze equestrian figure on a granite pedestal.

The Zhovkva Synagogue is an original and well-known religious building in the Renaissance style with Baroque elements, which was part of the system of city fortifications. The synagogue was adjoined by the city walls and the Jewish Gate, and it itself could have been a powerful defensive tower.

It was built in 1698 with the assistance of King Yan III Sobesky on the site of a burnt wooden synagogue.

In 1941, the ceiling and interior were destroyed by an explosion.

Until the early 1990s, the building was used as a warehouse. Restoration is currently underway, and the opening of the Jewish Center of Galicia is planned.