Architectural Lviv
The Church and Convent of the Benedictines
The Church and Convent of the Benedictines(today the Greek Catholic All Saints Church of the Convent of the Protection of the Holy Virgin) was built at the end of the 16th century. The nunnery complex at the foot of Castle Hill resembles a fortress.
The Bernardine Monastery
The Bernardine Monastery (now the Greek Catholic Church of St. Andrew) is an impressive monument in the Renaissance, Mannerism, and Baroque styles dating to1600-1630s. This is a fortified medieval monastery.
The Dominican Church
The Dominican Church, now the Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Eucharist, is a magnificent monument of the late Baroque; it is adorned with original sculptures.
The Chapel of the Boim family
The Chapel of the Boim family is a famous and very unique late Renaissance monument; it has no analogues, neither in Ukraine nor in the rest of Europe...
Virmenska str.
The Armenian community, one of the oldest in Lviv, had formed over a period of many years a centre for its national life in Lviv. Its unique architecture portrays the original spirit of this Eastern Christian culture.
The Palace of Counts Potockis
The Palace of Counts Potockis is a majestic edifice in French Neorenaissance style of late 19th century.
The Opera House
The Lviv Opera House (28 Svobody Square) is an architectural gem of Lviv, built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1901, and one of the most beautiful theatres in Europe...
Rynok Square
Rynok Square has been the centre of political, public, cultural, and commercial life of the city for 500 years; it is the heart of Lviv, the setting of the historic beginning of the Europeanization of Ukraine. Surrounding it are about fifty unique architectural monuments dating back to the 16-20th centuries
Residential Houses in Virmenska Street (16th-19th centuries)
For many centuries Armenians in Lviv have tried to recreate a part of their motherland in combination with European architectural tradition.
The Armenian Cathedral
The Armenian Cathedral (14-15th centuries) is a unique monument of Eastern culture in Europe. It is a successful architectural combination of various styles: the typical Armenian sanctuary, the Romanesque-Gothic style of Western Europe, and the traditional Ukrainian Halychyna type.
The Our Lady of the Sign Church of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns
The Our Lady of the Sign Church of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns is one of the most beautiful monuments of the Lviv Baroque of the first half of the 17th century
The Latin Cathedral
The Latin Cathedral presents a grand monument of the 14-18th centuries which harmoniously combines the architectural features of past epochs: Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque.
Architectural gems of Austrian Lviv
Building No. 1/3 at the corner of Svobody Prospect and Kopernika Street, known as the Hausner House, and the most beautiful Empire building in Lviv, was built in 1809-1822. In the 1850s Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria lived here. The building’s façade is adorned with numerous reliefs on mythological themes, including compositions of Amor and Psyche and Paris kidnapping Helen by the Lviv sculptor Gartman Witwer.
The Sapehas Palace
The Sapehas Palace is the ancestral home of an old family of Lithuanian-Rus princes. The building in 17th-century French Baroque style was erected in 1868.
The Palace with the Sphinxes
The Palace with the Sphinxes is the last of relatively preserved palace-like estates of early 19th century in Lviv.
