Building of the "Lviv Polytechnic" National University
The Monastery of Sacre-Coeur (Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) in Lviv with an educational institution for girls was founded in 1843 with the assistance…
Read moreThe Monastery of Sacre-Coeur (Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) in Lviv with an educational institution for girls was founded in 1843 with the assistance…
Read moreThe Franciscan Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Franciscan Street (V. Korolenko) was founded in 1708 by Sophia of Lubomyrska Seniavska…
Read moreThe Franciscan monastery and the church of St. Anthony of Padua in Lychakiv (49 Lychakivska Street) were founded in 1718 by the Kraków castellan Janusz (in…
Read moreOn the western side of the Les Invalides in 1858–1863, the architect Theophilus Hansen built a chapel in the shape of a Greek cross; it was decorated with…
Read moreThe Military Invalids House (now at 35 Kleparivska St.) was built in the Pilichowska Valley of Lviv’s Klepariv district in 1855-1863 following a project by…
Read moreThe St. Theresa Institution, founded in 1860, joined several charity institutions led by the Nuns of the Order of the Divine Providence, including a women’s…
Read morePalace of the Roman-Catholic archbishops, built in 1844 by architect Johann Saltzmann on the Góra Strzelnicza hill rising above the Wały Gubernatorskie park.…
Read moreAt the turn of the 18th–19th centuries, the development of the so-called Komorowszchyna began in the eastern part of Lviv. In 1816–1820, a city square was…
Read moreThe original wooden church of the Discalced Carmelites of St. Martin in the northern part of Lviv was founded around 1630 by Alexander Zborovsky. A hospital…
Read moreBernardynska Square was formed around 1650 after the partial liquidation of the city fortifications, its dominant feature is the Bernardine Church. Once, in…
Read moreA view of Bernardynska Square from Panska (Iv. Franka) Street. In the foreground on the left is Karol Budweiser's printing house, moved from Krakow to Lviv in…
Read moreA figure of St. Jan Nepomuk used to be situated on a bridge near hotel “De Russie” – “Russian” (1796). In the 1830ies it was moved to the end of Sviatoho Jana…
Read moreThe Natural History Museum, opened for public use by Lviv residents in 1880, was created by Count Volodymyr Dzedushytskyi on the basis of his collection, the…
Read moreThe oldest Lviv secular monument to Hetman Stanislaw Jablonowski, the defender of Lviv against the Tatars (1695), was constructed approximately 1752-1754.…
Read moreThe People's House was built in 1857 on the site of a monastery and a Trinitarian church. Since 1784, the monastery housed Lviv University. In 1848, during the…
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