Lviv is a
beautiful city situated in the Western Ukraine. Being an important trade center
throughout history, Lviv continues to bear its cultural and economical
significance nowadays.
Modern Lviv is a rapidly developing megapolis. Restaurants, hotels,
night clubs, coffee houses, pubs, museums and shopping malls present good
evidence of this process.
Lviv is an interesting place for admirers of
antiquities and art (the city was founded in 1256), as well as for clubbers and
fans of great time! Urban architecture gives you numerous examples of different
styles popular in Europe starting from the Medieval period and Renaissance,
ending with pseudo Goth, Secession and modern sky scrapes.
Lviv's historical centre, Rynok Square , and its
neighboring streets belong to the UNESCO architecture heritage.
Lviv is a multinational city in which
Ukrainians, Jews, Armenians, Poles, Germans, Austrians, Greeks, Russians have
always lived.
Lviv is known for its delicious coffee. In 1683
the tradesman and traveler, Juriy Kulchytskyy, opened one of the first coffee
houses in Europe here.
The Lviv brewhouse was founded in 1715 and since then Lviv has been providing
beer for the whole Ukraine as well as for many other European countries.
Lviv is an attractive tourist centre not
only because of its unique architecture, history and traditions, but also due
to its location close to the Ukrainian and Polish Carpathians Mountains .
Some
useful links:
http://panolviv.com/ - virtual panoramas of
http://ct.lviv.ua/ - culture and tourism in Lviv
http://www.lviv.ua/en/
- official Lviv's page
photo by Roman Shmidt (c)
