Cult

Lviv


This superb basement venue next to the Philarmonia reverberates with live Ukrainian rock music every night of the week.


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Nearby Lviv attractions

2. Lviv Art Gallery (Pototsky Palace)

0.16 MILES

Lviv's main art repository has two wings – one in the lavish Pototsky Palace (Палац Потоцьких), the other around the corner on vul Stefanyka. This one…

3. Salo Museum

0.17 MILES

For the uninitiated, salo is the cured pig fat (lard) that Ukrainians love to slip down with vodka and use an an ingredient in national dishes. This …

4. Birthplace of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

0.2 MILES

Opposite the Pototsky Palace is the supposed birthplace of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the world’s original ‘masochist’. The author of Venus in Furs came…

5. Latin Cathedral

0.21 MILES

With various chunks dating from between 1370 and 1480, this working cathedral is one of Lviv’s most impressive churches. The exterior is most definitely…

6. Boyim Chapel

0.23 MILES

The blackened facade of the burial chapel (1615), belonging to Hungarian merchant Georgi Boyim and his family, is covered in magnificent if somewhat…

8. Statue of Taras Shevchenko

0.25 MILES

An enormous statue of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's greatest nationalist writer, rises up in the middle of pr Svobody. It was a gift to the people of Lviv…