Attractions of Lviv district

Devil's Rock in Vynnyky is the highest point on the outskirts of Lviv (418 meters).

The rock consists of sandstones, the bizarre shape of which was formed as a result of erosion and quarrying of building stone.

Until the 18th century, the ruins of the fortress could be seen on the top of the Devil's Rock. During various wars, the rock served as a guard post, battles with Turks, Tatars and Bolsheviks took place at its foot.

Since the 19th century, Devil's Rock has been one of the most popular recreation spots for Lviv residents.

The Dominican church 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.

In Soviet times, there was a museum of atheism here. 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 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 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 the Lviv.

At the base of the dome is an allegorical sculptural group symbolizing the economic prosperity of Halicia, which is called the world's only sitting Statue of Liberty.

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

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the main Catholic church of the town, which existed already during the time of Vladyslav Yahaylo.

In his image, the architectural techniques of various stylistic directions - Gothic, Baroque and modern - were originally combined.

Probably, the first wooden Exaltation Church was laid in 1372 by the Polish governor Vladyslav Opolchyk. In its current form, the traditional Gothic church was rebuilt in 1419. In the 16th century, reconstruction was carried out and a belfry with six bells was built, the largest of which was consecrated in 1753.

During the last reconstruction, carried out in the 1930s of the 20th century by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the western, largest part of the church was completed. The facade was decorated with sculptures of the Mother of God, the apostles Peter and Paul.

The interiors were completely destroyed during the Soviet rule.

Today, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is active again.

The Lviv Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum (Franko House) was opened in 1940 on the initiative of the writer's youngest son, Petro.

The museum is located in a small two-story villa in the Swiss style, where Ivan Franko and his family spent the last 14 years of his life.

The exhibition was based on a collection of autographs, letters, documents, photographs, books and personal belongings from the writer's office, collected by the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society.

In Franko House, the atmosphere of the life of the writer and his family is recreated in detail: a study, a library, a dining room, Ivan Franko's bedroom, a women's room, Olha Franko's room, Taras and Petro Franko's room. In 2018, the exhibition "Kitchen of the Franko House" was created.

The literary exposition is located in the neighboring two-story house of the Polish entrepreneur Antony Uvyera, built in 1923-1925 in the neoclassical style according to the project of the Lviv architect Ivan Bahenskyi.

Upon request, the museum staff conducts theatrical, thematic, author's, interactive excursions, walking tours through the streets of Lviv, themed quests, and master classes. Literary evenings, theater performances, concerts of classical and modern music, various exhibitions and performances are also periodically held in the museum.

The Garrison Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (the former Church of Peter and Paul of the Jesuit Order) is one of the largest religious buildings in the city, the first vivid example of mannerism (early baroque) in Lviv.

Construction began in 1610 by the Jesuit monk Sebastyan Lyankhius, who was the author of the original project. The Italian architect Dzhakomo Briano, взявши maintained the pure style of the Italian Baroque during the completion of the church in 1618-1621, taking as a model the facade of the Il Gesu church in Rome. In 1630, the construction was completed, the temple was consecrated, but the finishing works continued for another 30 years.

Trinefny temple. The main facade dominates, decorated with pilasters, niches with statues and a strong cornice. Inside - lush baroque decoration. Paintings were made by artists Francysk and Sebastyan Ekshteyn from Brno. In one of the side altars there is a highly artistic wooden crucifix by Yan Pfister.

Next to the church is a three-story building of the former Jesuit college.

In 2011, the church was consecrated as the Garrison Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of the UGCC.

In the underground crypts of the church there is a museum "Dungeon of the Garrison Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church", where you can order a tour of the church.

The Museum of Glass in Lviv was established on the initiative of a famous Ukrainian glazier, chairman of the organizing committee of the International Symposiums of Tempered Glass in Lviv, former rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey.

Since 2006, the museum has been operating in the basement of the Bandinelli Palace in the Rynok Square. Since then, the museum's collection has been systematically replenished with works created as part of the International Symposium of Tempered Glass. Part of it was transferred to the funds of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

Among the oldest exhibits are glassware and beads made in the I-II centuries AD in the Roman colonies in southern Ukraine, beads and utensils from the XI-XII centuries, as well as bracelets and fragments of bracelets found during archaeological excavations.

The Gunpowder tower is a fully preserved fragment of Lviv's defensive structures. One of the 17 towers that were part of the ring of city fortifications. A monument of military defense architecture of the Renaissance era.

The Gunpowder tower was located on the defensive rampart behind the second line of fortifications and served to protect the approaches to the city from the eastern side. It was also used to store gunpowder and ammunition, and in peacetime - as a grain warehouse.

It is built of unhewn stone, semicircular in plan, three-story, covered with a gabled roof. The thickness of the walls reaches 2.5 meters. For more than four centuries, the rising ground level hid the lower part of the tower by one and a half to two meters.

Since 1959, the premises have been occupied by the Architect's House with an exhibition hall. Now the Center for Architecture, Design and Urbanism "Gunpowder Tower" is located here.

The historical museum complex of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv is located in the former villa of Lviv University professor Emil Dunikovsky, which was built in 1896-1898 by architect Vladislav Raush in the Neo-Baroque style.

In 1911 it was purchased for the needs of the Church Museum by its founder and patron, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. It was here in 1913 that the first exposition of the National Museum in Lviv was opened.

Now in the Historical museum complex the permanent exposition "Ukrainian art of the XX-th century" is developed. It is a continuation of the exposition of Ukrainian art of the XII-XIX centuries, which is located in the main building of the museum on Svobody Avenue.

The presented works present the formation and development of Ukrainian art culture in line with the main styles and directions of world art of the last century, and reflects the cultural and artistic processes of the Soviet period, which developed outside the normative aesthetics of socialist realism.

The historical and local lore museum was opened in the city of Vynnyky in 1991 in the former mansion of the doctor Yakiv Nahlyak (1935). The exposition is located in three halls.

The archeological collection presents everyday objects of primitive hunters, finds from the Trypillya period, a unique treasure from the Hallstatt-Laten era and a mysterious stone statue.

The expositions of the "History of the Middle Ages" and "Modern History" departments tell about the origin and development of the city of Vynnyky. In particular, items from the Vynnyky Castle and the first tobacco factory of Galicia, a collection of ancient printed publications of the 17th-19th centuries, personal belongings of the famous opera singer Oleksandra Lyubich-Parakhonyak, ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Ukraine Ivan Lypa and Ivan Ohiyenko are presented.

The Museum of Weaving and Carpet Making in Hlyniany is a department of the Vynnyky Museum of History and Local Lore.

The fire and technical exhibition of the Ministry of Emergencies was opened in the building of the Fire Safety Department in Lviv region.

The first hall reflects the history of fire development in Galicia and, in particular, in Lviv. Among the exhibits is an Austrian-made pump from 1849.

The second hall is dedicated to the everyday life of firefighters.

The exposition concludes with a hall dedicated to the Chornobyl disaster.

The Museum of the History of the Kruty Heroes Lviv State Lyceum covers the history of the creation and development of the educational institution, as well as some pages of the history of the formation of Ukrainian statehood.

The first chapter of the exhibition is dedicated to the Battle of Kruty in January 1918 and the memory of the Heroes of Kruty. The stands show the ratio of forces, the composition of units, the course of the battle. All this is illustrated by diagrams, maps, tables. The stand is complemented by elements of armaments of that time: the German Mauser 98 self-loading rifle of the 1898 model, the Russian Mosin rifle of the 1891 model, and the Maxim machine gun.

A separate exposition section is devoted to the prehistory of the lyceum - Lviv Republican Special Boarding School with enhanced military and physical training, which operated from 1985 to 1992, and on the basis of which the lyceum was formed. The section of the history of the lyceum and its development in the conditions of formation of the Ukrainian statehood consists of 4 blocks: creation and development of the Lviv military lyceum (1992-1996); development of Lviv State Lyceum with enhanced military and physical training (1996-2010); lyceum in the period up to 2018; lyceum at the present stage.

Two stands in the museum are dedicated to weapons of different periods. The exhibition presents 18 samples of weapons since the eighteenth century. Some of the materials are presented in multimedia form on an interactive panel, which was presented at the opening of the updated exhibition in 2022.