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SLEEPING LIONS CITY (4 days/ 3 night)




4 days / 3 nights
Day 1. Arrival to Lviv. Transfer airport/railway station – hotel accommodation. CITY TOUR (3 hours). The tour route covers the oldest sights (Pidzamche area - the early medieval part of the city with the Gothic Cathedrals of John the Baptist and Virgin Mary of the Snow, the Romanesque and Renaissance Churches of St. Nicholas, St. Onyfrii and St. Paraskeva), central streets (the unique ensemble created in the Austrian period of Lviv history – the 19th – 20th c.c.), the memorial Lychakiv Cemetery of the 18th – 20th c.c. (more than 1500 unique burial monuments and sculptures). Dinner.
Day 2. Breakfast. LVIV (walking tour): THE GEMS OF OLD CITY (3 hours). The tour will show You round the most remarkable sights of the ancient city, which has preserved as an indivisible architectural ensemble in spite of wars, fires and social revolutions: the medieval Rynok Square with the City Hall and a set of ancient buildings, the Gothic Latin Cathedral, beautiful Baroque Cathedrals of Bernardines, Jesuits and Dominicans, ruins of the all-Europe-famous Golden Rose Synagogue, magnificent city fortifications, including the City and Royal Armouries, Gunpowder Tower and many other relics. Visit museum at your choice: The National Museum exhibits  the treasures of old iconography; Art gallery (its stores hold more than 55,000 works of art and of ornamentation created by Ukrainian and other Euripean artists), Historical Museum, Museum of Religion, The Arsenal Museum  (ancient arms, firearms, defence weaponry and military accoutrements from many countries). You will also visit the Local Crafts Market (Vernisazh) with it’s remarkable souvenirs.
Day 3. Breakfast. TOUR TO ANCIENT OLESKO CASTLE (5 hours). 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).
Day 4. Breakfast. Tour to Open-Air Museum of National Architecture “Shevchenkivskyy Hai”. Free time. Transfer to railway station/airport. Departure from Lviv.


LVIV - THE PEARL OF EUROPE (3 days/ 2 nights)




3 days/ 2 nights
Day 1. Lviv. Arrival to Lviv. Transfer airport/railway station – hotel accommodation. Sightseeing tour: St. George's cathedral – center of Galician metropoly, High Castle – sightseeing of the city from the height of bird's flight, ancient Galician churches, located at Pidzamche, complex of Lviv universities, palace of Pototskyy family, Freedom avenue.   
Walking tour "By streets of ancient Lviv", registered at UNESCO list: Market square (original museum under open air – all buildings on this square are architectural monuments of XVI-XX centuries),  City Hall, Black Stone House, Italian court, houses of Kornyakt family, Archbishops, Lyubomyrskyy family, Masari family, Assumption church, Gunpowder tower, City and Royal arsenals, Pidkovy square, Virmenska street, Roman-Catholic church and monastery of Dominicans and Bernardines, Opera House. 
Day 2. Lviv.Breakfast. One-day excursion "Golden horseshoe of Lviv region" with visiting of Oleskyy castle (architectural and historical monument of XIII-XVIII centuries, former residence of Polish kings); today it is a museum-reserve, department of Lviv gallery of arts, where unique works of art, sculpture, portraits, still life, furniture are exhibited. Pidhoretskyy castle (unique architectural monument of late Renaissance, which was built for crowned hetman S. Konetspolskyy as castle for entertainment; now it is a museum with big number of precious paintings, arms, books, furniture) and Zolochiv castle (built in 1630-ies). Late Renaissance Big and Chinese palaces stand in the castle's courtyard. The same building can be seen in Saint-Petersburg and Berlin.
Day 3.Breakfast. Departure from Lviv.



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