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EXCURSIONS




CITY TOUR (4 hours)



You will see Lviv from the height of the bird flight (from the survey ground of hill Vysokyy Zamok (High Castle Hill), ancient temples of Halychyna located on Pidzamche, St. George Cathedral -the metropolitan center of Halychyna, National University named after I. Franko, Lviv Politechnic University, Freedom Avenue (Opera theatre, National museum, Jesuit church of St. Paul and St. Peter, monuments to T. Shevchenko and A. Mitskevych, Kopernik Street (palace of Pototskyy, Art palace, National bank).  



ANCIENT LVIV (3 hours)




You will see the medieval Rynok Square with the Town Hall and a set of ancient buildings, the Gothic Latin Cathedral, Baroque Cathedrals of Bernardines, Jesuits and Dominicans, ruins of the all-Europe-famous Golden Rose Synagogue, magnificent city fortifications, incl. the Town and Royal Armouries, Gunpowder Tower... 

 


THE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (3 hours)




You will see the splendid Baroque Ukrainian-Catholic St. George (St. Yury) Cathedral, the Renaissance ensemble of the Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary Assumption, the magnificent Roman Catholic Latin Cathedral, the unique ensemble of the Armenian Street and the sights of the medieval Jewish block 

 


The memorial LYCHAKIV CEMETERY (2 hours)




with a set of unique monuments of 18th - 20th c.c., the Historical Graveyards of Polish insurgents of 1831 and 1863, Memorials and Graveyard of victims of the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919) and Military Memorial of the WWII 

 


MUSEUM OF NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND LIFE (2 hours)




Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (Shevchenkivsky Hay) - the open-air museum is located in the picturesque part of the city Znesinnya park. It includes a number of miniature villages containing 15-20 architectural objects from the ethnical lands of Boykos, Lemkos, Hutsuls, Bukovyna and the Transcarpathian Region. In dwelling houses and in domestic buildings many examples of home use utensils, clothes, handicraft instruments, agricultural implements and transport facilities are displayed there.

 


LVIV FORTIFICATIONS: LOST AND RETURNED (3 hours)




You will pass round the line of the ancient fortifications and see the stern Town and Royal Armouries, High and Low Walls with the Gunpowder Tower and Towers of Tailors, Turners and Tradesmen, fortified abbeys and cathedrals and the old Austrian Citadel of the 19th century remarkable for it’s eventful history 

 


TRAVEL TO THE LVIV ABBEYS (2.5 hours)




The fascinating tour to the bewitching world of the inimitable in beauty medieval Monasteries of Bernardines (17th c.), Dominicans (18th c.), Barefooted Carmelites (17th c.) and Convents of Benedictines (16th c.), Poor Claris (17th c.) and Franciscans (18 c.), where legend and reality were interlaced. 

 

 


THE HISTORY OF JEWISH COMMUNITY (2 hours)



You will see the unique ensemble with it’s heart - the Medieval Golden Rose Synagogue (16th c.), the beautiful streets of the Krakow Suburb area, the Monument to the tragic victims of Holokost perished in Lviv ghetto during the WWII. 

 


AUSTRIAN LVIV (2.5 hours)




The tour attempts to restore the spirit of the “Old Austria” concealed in the beautiful buildings of the theatres, museums, banks, casino, restaurants and hotels presenting the inimitable concord of the Western Art and Local Traditions 

 


GERMANS IN LVIV-LEOPOLIS-LEMBERG (2 hours)




The Princes and Kings who had ruled in the Medieval period readily invited to Lviv the settlers from German lands – merchants, craftsmen, artists, knights. The Gothic Lviv (14th – 15th c.c.) was created by German architects


Day tours from Lviv



Golden  Horseshoe (Olesko Castle-Pidgirtsi Castle-Zolochiv Castle)
8 hours:
Olesko Castle. For five hundred years (14th - 18th c.) Ukraine had been subjected to the continuous savage raids of the mounted Tatars. Now You have a good chance to go on a tour to the land of mysterious old castle and secluded abbeys (70 km to the East from Lviv). You will be able to appraise masterpieces of the “Olesky Castle” Museum-Preserve (14th – 18th c.c.), to learn a lot of interesting about the other strongholds of the Lviv Region. (The castle was founded as a fortress in the 14th century by one of Yuriy Levovych’s sons, the Duke of Galych and Volyn.  In the 15th century, it served as a residence for local nobility and was reconstructed into a splendid palace complex in the Italian renaissance style. The Polish King Yan Sobieski III and Mykhaylo Korybut Vyshvevetsky were born in that castle, and the Ukrainian Hetman, Bohdan Khmelnytsky grew up here. The Olesky Castle is now a museum, which houses valuable collections of 16th century icons, paintings, sculptures and furniture).

Pidhirtsi Castle was constructed in1635-1640 by order of Polish Hetman Stanislaw Koniecpolski, on the site of an older fortress. The castle was then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and is now considered one of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands of the former Commonwealth.

Zolochiv Castle ( 66 km from Lviv ) was built as a citadel with bastions in the 1630s by Jakub Sobieski. Inside Zolochiv Castle you can see Chinese palace, a diminutive mauve-colored rotunda flanked by one-storey wings. It was built in late 17th century as Jan III's gift to his French-born wife Marysenka. After Jakub Ludwik Sobieski's death in 1737, the castle passed to the Radziwill princely family and then (in 1801) to Count Lukash Komarnitski whose heirs sold it to the Austrian crown in 1834. From this date the castle was adapted for use as a hospital and barracks. In the days of Austro-Hungarian Empire it was turned into a prison and later became a grim prison under Stalin. A memorial and an exhibition to commemorate those who perished here can now be seen in the castle as well as a chapel outside the castle walls.

 


Zhovkva and Krekhiv Monastery



 6 hours 
During the 2 hours tour of Zhovkva (35 km from Lviv) you will see Zhovkva castle1594-1606 with a City Hall (1932), Dominican Cloister and Church (1655), Basilian Cloister and the Heart of Christ Church (1612), St. Lavrentiy (Laurence) Cathedral the burial place for Zolkiewski, Danilowicz and Sobieski (all related to Polish King Jan III Sobieski), nine-bay synagogue, a superb example of monumental Renaissance Eastern European Jewish architecture (1692-1700).
Basilian Monastery of St. Nicholas in Krekhiv (17th c) In the 1760s the monastery was formed into a walled fortress to protect the monks from the marauding Tatars. In 1946, the region was taken by the Soviet Union and the Greek Catholic Church suffered great persecution. During this time the monastery was shut down and was left to ruin. Many of the monks were martyred and the rest were forced to live undercover. Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the Basilian order was reestablished and reconstruction began of the monastery from1990.


Trip to Carpathian Mountains



10 hours 
We invite you to visit Carpathian mountains of Lviv region. During the tour you will see rocks in Urych (the former Tustan castle) and Kamyanka waterfall.
Tustan fortress is located in Urych village 110 km from Lviv. It dates back to the 9th century. The wooden structure was built into ancient rock formations to protect the borders of Kievan Rus’ from wild hordes. The fortress also served as a customs point along the Silk Road between China and Portugal that provided protection and lodging to merchants. Today Tustan is a Ukrainian state historical-cultural preserve.

 


Carpathian tram and Hoshiv monastery



10 hours 
The Carpathian tram is the only sightseeing route in Ukraine by a narrow-gauge railway. The route starts from the Vygoda village, 125 km from Lviv. It goes alongside the Mizunky river in picturesque Carpathian foothills. On the route there are stops near: the bridge across the Misunka river; the spring of mineral water "Horyanka", tract "Duboviy Kut" and the cascade of the Misunka waterfall.
Basilian monastery in Hoshiv (1570). The present day monastery buildings and church of the Transfiguration were built at the beginning of the 19th century on the top of a hill Yasna Hora. In 1736 the monastery received from its founders the wonder working icon of the Mother of God, a copy of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa