Attractions of Lviv district

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 monument to the fighters for the freedom of Ukraine was erected in Horodok in 2003 on the initiative of the "Memorial" society. Dedicated to the UVO-OUN fighters Vasyl Bilas, Dmytro Danylyshyn, Volodymyr Staryk and Yuriy Berezynsky, who died in 1932 during an armed attack on the city postal and judicial institution of the Polish authorities.

Now the former post office building houses the Horodok District State Administration.

The author of the original project of the monument is Professor Ivan Samotos.

One of the buildings on Pekarska street, which has a small architectural feature - one of its corners is extremely sharp, was nicknamed the "flat house" in Lviv. Thanks to this, when viewed from a certain angle, when the faces are hidden from the observer, the illusion is created that the house is flat, that is, it has only one wall - the facade.

Other famous "flat houses" are in Odesa and Zhytomyr.

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 legendary George Hotel in Lviv is the oldest hotel in Ukraine, an elegant architectural monument of the times of Austria-Hungary.

Founded in 1793 as the restaurant "Under the Three Hooks", on the basis of which the De La Rus Inn opened three years later. In 1816, the hotel became the property of the Bavarian merchant Georg (George) Hoffmann, who arranged the garden, built a theater hall and an entrance gate.

The current building in the Viennese Neo-Renaissance style was built in 1901 according to the project of the famous Viennese architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner, the authors of the Odessa Opera. The "Saint George" relief was moved from the old building to the pediment of the new one. In the niches of the side facades are allegorical statues symbolizing Europe, Asia, America, Africa. The hall with a wide spread staircase impresses with grandeur.

Many celebrities stayed at the Georges Hotel: Honore de Balzac, Ferenc Liszt, Ethel.-Lilian Voynich and others.

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 and Local Lore Museum of Kamyanechchyna has been operating since 1996 at the Center for Children's and Youth Creativity of the Kamyanka-Buzka City Council.

The exposition in four halls tells about the history of Kamyanechchyna since ancient times, the national liberation struggle in the territory of the region, the culture and lifestyle of local residents, the history of the Kamianka-Buzka theater.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the family of public and public figures Tsegelskyi. Thanks to the efforts of Father Mykhaylo Tsehelsky, a new Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and the People's House appeared in Kamyanka. In 1875, his son Lonhyn was born in his family, who later became the first minister of internal affairs of the ZUNR. The personal belongings of the Tsehelsky family members and their furniture are presented.

Among other exhibits of the museum are the original map of Galicia from the 1940s, old postcards with architectural monuments of Kamyanka-Buzka, as well as photos and materials related to the figures of the Ukrainian national movement.

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 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.

The Lviv Museum of the History of Religion has been operating in the premises of the 14th-18th century Dominican Monastery in Lviv since 1973.

This work by the Austrian architect Yan de Vitte is one of the best examples of Baroque architecture in the city.

The exposition of the museum tells about the history of world and national religions and church organizations of all times: religions of the ancient world, Judaism, early Christianity, the Armenian Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Orthodoxy in Ukraine, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism.

Some of the 50,000 exhibits have unique cult, artistic and historical value. In particular, there is a large collection of icons of the XVI-XIX centuries, a large collection of Bibles (including the Ostroh Bible of 1581 and published in Paris in 1563), the reliquary of Saint Anthony of the XI century and more.

The museum practices various forms of scientific and educational work: lectures, excursions, concerts of organ and chamber music.