Lviv Art Gallery (Pototsky Palace)
Lviv
Lviv's main art repository has two wings – one in the lavish Pototsky Palace (Палац Потоцьких), the other around the corner on vul Stefanyka. This one…
Must-see attractions in Western Ukraine
Lviv
Attached to the Dominican Cathedral to the left of the entrance is the Museum of Religious History which was actually dedicated to atheism in Soviet times…
Lviv
This grand, hilltop church is the work of 17th-century Italian architects. It was once the church of a fortified monastery which held out against the…
Lviv
This seldom-visited church was founded by the German community in the 13th century as a Catholic cathedral but was given a neo-Romanesque makeover in the…
Lviv
The town's former arsenal (1554–56) is now a museum where you can check out suits of armour and various cannons and weapons.
Western Ukraine
In the 18th century the nuns at this working convent (no access inside) were so strict about their 'no-male-on-the-premises' rule that they didn't allow…
Lviv
About 500m north of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet on pr Chornovola is the Holocaust memorial, a vaguely cubist statue of a tormented figure looking…
Lviv
For the uninitiated, salo is the cured pig fat (lard) that Ukrainians love to slip down with vodka and use an an ingredient in national dishes. This …
Sts Peter's and Paul's Cathedral
Western Ukraine
The Jesuit complex on vul Kafedralna was designed in the early to mid-17th century by Italian architect Giacomo Briano. The stately, newly renovated…
Western Ukraine
When the Poles regained control of Kremenets, they sealed their victory by building another of the town's main sights, the Jesuit Collegium (1731–43), on…
Birthplace of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Lviv
Opposite the Pototsky Palace is the supposed birthplace of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the world’s original ‘masochist’. The author of Venus in Furs came…
Lviv
In the outer district, you’ll find the Jewish Hospital one of Lviv’s architectural highlights. From afar this Moorish, dome-topped building looks like a…
Lviv Art Gallery – 19th-20th Century Collection
Lviv
This branch of the Lviv Art Gallery contains 19th- and early-20th-century art (plus some 21st-century pieces); this includes a superb collection of Polish…
Western Ukraine
Displaying over 100 painted icons, this museum provides an overview of the celebrated Volyn school of icon painting from the 16th to the 18th century. The…
Western Ukraine
The obscure Regional Museum is worth a spin for its back-to-the-1980s exhibition and light-switch monitors. Highlights include some interesting Cossack…
Western Ukraine
Apart from the castle, Dubno's only other attraction is the recently renovated Church of St Nicholas (1630), whose telltale plain interior suggests it was…
Lviv
The Yanivske Cemetery, northwest of the city centre, has a large Jewish section accessible from vul Yeroshenka (a side street off vul Tarasa Shevchenka).
Lviv
Around a kilometre's walk west of the Yanivske cemetery are a plaque and a billboard marking the spot of the Janowska concentration camp, now a prison.
Beis Aharon V’Yisrael Synagogue
Lviv
Lviv’s only functioning synagogue is the attractive Beis Aharon V’Yisrael Synagogue, built in 1924.
Lviv
The statue of Poland's national poet caps the southern end of pr Svobody.
Lviv
This 13th-century church was given a neo-Renaissance revamp in 1889 and has an unusual red-brick facade. Currently, it houses the Museum of the Oldest…
