Lviv Travel

Lviv Travel

Lviv is a proud, majestic city and a beautiful and hospitable city at the same time.

Lviv is a place where people should visit at least once in their lives. To wander on narrow small streets, which were made of ancient stone blocks, to drive a yellow-red street car in the centre, to drink a cup of Lvivian coffee in one of those silent European style cafes, to visit the numerous ancient temples and Catholic churches, to hear the unforgettable dialect of the local western Ukrainian people - to dive into an epoch of a medieval city. The past and the present are organically intertwined in Lviv. It is a city of cathedrals, temples, architectural monuments and it also has modern regions.

The central part of Lviv is declared as a historical and architectural reserve and it entered the list of the world cultural heritage of UNESCO in 1998. About two thousand historical, architectural and cultural objects are under protection. You can find more information about it in “lviv tourist information” guide books, which were issued special for tourists.

Lviv is a symbiosis of styles, stories and epoch. When you travel to Lviv, you can see like colorful light bulbs are hanging on lampposts; car drivers are stopping at the pedestrian crossings, the bakeries are ready with their fresh scents in the mornings at six o'clock.

At the same time it is often possible to bump into an automatic water machine with a chained drinking cup, some shop windows can still be decorated by the Soviet era drawings. The benches are still made of wood there. During your Lviv travel you will find the interesting combination of the classic European style and the spirit of the USSR era.

Inhabitants of Lviv often hope for the "London" kind of weather and advise tourists to visit them in the springtime, when the entire city is in its full color. Other good time to take your Lviv tours is in the summer, if it is not too hot - or in the early autumn. During this season it is especially beautiful there and if you travel to Lviv for the first time, you will be continually surprised, when you find "Krakow", "Budapest" and "Florence" in Lviv.

Lviv is saturated with monuments of history, culture and architecture - there is just so much to see. Take your Lviv tours and enjoy the city! A good way to begin is to start with the old central part of a city. Cars noise will not disturb you on days off, the streets are vacant and only a streetcar can break the silence with the knocking of its wheels. The Market area will surprise tourists with its multi-colored houses. They have remained from The Gothic Lviv era and they just escaped the fire of 1527 when the city was almost completely burnt down.

The Lviv town hall - the administration building – is situates in the center area. The building is from 1835 and it was made in the Viennese classicism style. The square construction with an internal courtyard has witnessed many historical events - repeatedly burnt and wrecked. The Town hall was reconstructed in 1852 and nowadays there is a city council of Lviv. There is a tower with a viewing platform over a building there. And the amazing view of the city opens from that place.

Lviv tours across the old Lviv are almost impossible without visiting the local book market on the Museum area. There are the monuments of the first printer Ivan Fedorovu and the Ukrainian kozak Ukrainian Shuchkar there, clothed in a national Ukrainian shirt and with the same kind of moustaches that Taras Bulba used to have. There is also the Kreschatik there in Lviv - Freedom prospectus. In fact, you will feel the Ukrainian spirit, fill with internal freedom and the feeling of the present during your Lviv travel.

The extraordinary view on a city opens from a viewing platform of the High castle. It is the highest point of Lviv, a hill, where the most beautiful old park with centenary trees is located. All our Lviv tours show all this beauty.

Lviv is a city of churches, monasteries, cathedrals and temples. The Pokrovy Presvjatoj Bogoroditsy's temple is one of the most famous , which is located in the Grushevsky Street 5 - designed by Italian architect Frantsa Platsidi. It is the interesting place to visit for fans of baroque architecture. The temple was called the Sacred Nikolay's church until 1990. Lviv tourist information (Lviv guide books) will tell you more facts about this place of interest.

Lviv is an extraordinary city. It is necessary to notice that people are exclusively kind there, even if they have more than their fair share of troubled times in the past history. You have to travel to Lviv and experience the city atmosphere yourself and let it convince you. Lviv will stay in your memory for a long time - it will be like a trip back to the Middle Ages.

If you would like to rest in clean ecological areas – then you definitely have to choose Lviv eco tours. You will enjoy your vacation and you will change your lifestyle for a while. Clean ecological meals, the chance to join the unique world of nature – that is all what you need in Lviv eco tours!

Nowadays many British tourists travel to Lviv. Lviv becomes more and more popular destination for them. We hope, that Lviv airport will open new flying destination soon – London Lviv – and it will help travelers from UK to get to Lviv more easily and faster.