Free Tours in Lviv

About Lviv has already written a lot of articles, books, made films about him and in it. But it's better to come here at least once and have fun.

A lot of beautiful buildings have been preserved in Lviv. Up to 95% of the architecture of the city "survived" during the war and now and a week is not enough to see the whole of Lviv. First of all, you need to explore the old part of Lviv, which since 1998 is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Here you can find the Latin Cathedra - the most important temple of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, the Jesuit Church of Sts. Peter and Paul - the first Baroque temple in Lviv and also the largest in the city (designed for 5000 believers), in addition, with him acting collegium, where he studied Cossack hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky

Square The market looks royal and many kings visited Lviv: almost all the kings of Poland and the Commonwealth, Tsar Peter Alekseevich Romanov, Charles XII, who, because of Lviv beer, took it for the first time in Lviv's history , and the native of the city Stanislav Leschinsky did not give Him to destroy the city. The "Lviv" king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Jan Sobieski saved Vienna in 1683, and with it, and all of Europe from Turkish expansion.

In addition to the powerful in the "capital of Russia" there were also ordinary people who also glorified the city: Xavier Franz Mozart - the youngest son of a famous composer who, under the Catedrine of St. Jura organized the first professional chapel, performed by the Requiem of Wolfgang-Amadeus Mozart, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - writer, father of "masochism", Mohammed Assad - "father" of Pakistan, Stanislav Lem -a science fiction writer who lived in Lviv of the Austrian period ... .Tam It is worth to see the main building of the University - the oldest in Ukraine.

Lviv is the capital of culture with the third most beautiful Opera House in Europe, and the capital of coffee - it was thanks to our compatriot Yuri Kulchitsky, who was born near Lviv, for the first time in Europe, coffee became available to all residents, as well as croissants. And in Lviv, these traditions are honored, because coffee is not just a drink, it is a way of life, so coffee is to taste at every step.

Well, what about without beer and vodka ... Lviv brewery has been working so far since 1715 and is the oldest in Ukraine. It is worth to go to the museum and taste this drink. And Lviv's "gorilla" makes "gorilka" from 1782 (but they are not allowed to go on an excursion yet).

It was thanks to vodka, which they wanted to make in 1853, a real kerosene, and, accordingly, a kerosene lamp.

For a better acquaintance with Lviv, take a guide, and even if you do not have enough money, you can take excursions around Lviv for free.