Ukraine · 2 PLACES TO EXPLORE

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of Lviv.

Find places to visit in Lviv. See what catches your eye, then save a few favorites for your trip.

Lviv · UA

Lviv Historical Museum

Set in the resplendent Korniakt House at Rynok Square 6—the Renaissance townhouse that King Jan III Sobieski made his Lviv residence—the Lviv Historical Museum is one of Ukraine's oldest and richest museums. Its collections run to roughly 380,000 objects spanning municipal and guild history, arms and armour, coins, orders, rare books and the story of the city itself, but the experience here begins with the building: a 1580 palace of arcaded loggias, a forgotten Gothic hall, gilded Royal Halls and a courtyard so quiet and resonant that concerts are held in it. For a visitor already wandering Lviv's UNESCO-listed Market Square, this is the easiest and most rewarding way to understand how the city lived across five centuries—merchant princes, a Polish king, magnate families and, since 1908, the museum that grew out of their legacy.

Historical landmark

Lviv · UA

Monument of Bartosz Glowacki

Perched on a high stone pedestal in the upper reaches of Lychakivskyi Park, the Monument of Bartosz Głowacki commemorates a peasant hero of the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising who seized a Russian cannon at the Battle of Racławice by smothering its fuse with his cap. Erected in 1906 by Lviv's Polish craftsmen, it is one of the few pre-war Polish public monuments that still stands in its original location in the city. The sculpture depicts Głowacki standing triumphantly atop the barrel of a captured cannon, a scythe in his right hand and his left arm raised in a call to battle. The rough-hewn stone base makes the figure appear to grow organically from the hillside, merging with the park's pine-covered slopes above the Lychakivska Street ridge.

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Ukraine · 2 PLACES TO EXPLORE

A little more
of Lviv.

Find places to visit in Lviv. See what catches your eye, then save a few favorites for your trip.

Museum

Lviv · UA

Lviv Historical Museum

Set in the resplendent Korniakt House at Rynok Square 6—the Renaissance townhouse that King Jan III Sobieski made his Lviv residence—the Lviv Historical Museum is one of Ukraine's oldest and richest museums. Its collections run to roughly 380,000 objects spanning municipal and guild history, arms and armour, coins, orders, rare books and the story of the city itself, but the experience here begins with the building: a 1580 palace of arcaded loggias, a forgotten Gothic hall, gilded Royal Halls and a courtyard so quiet and resonant that concerts are held in it. For a visitor already wandering Lviv's UNESCO-listed Market Square, this is the easiest and most rewarding way to understand how the city lived across five centuries—merchant princes, a Polish king, magnate families and, since 1908, the museum that grew out of their legacy.

Historical landmark

Lviv · UA

Monument of Bartosz Glowacki

Perched on a high stone pedestal in the upper reaches of Lychakivskyi Park, the Monument of Bartosz Głowacki commemorates a peasant hero of the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising who seized a Russian cannon at the Battle of Racławice by smothering its fuse with his cap. Erected in 1906 by Lviv's Polish craftsmen, it is one of the few pre-war Polish public monuments that still stands in its original location in the city. The sculpture depicts Głowacki standing triumphantly atop the barrel of a captured cannon, a scythe in his right hand and his left arm raised in a call to battle. The rough-hewn stone base makes the figure appear to grow organically from the hillside, merging with the park's pine-covered slopes above the Lychakivska Street ridge.