Trapezna Idey

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An unmarked door behind the paper-aeroplane monument leads into the bowels of a Bernardine monastery, where this lovely local-intelligentsia fave is hiding, together with a modern art gallery called the Museum of Ideas. People flock here for the hearty bohrach (a Ukrainian version of goulash) and banosh (Carpathian polenta with salty cottage cheese).


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1. Bernardine Church and Monastery

Lviv's most stunning baroque interior belongs to the 17th-century now Greek Catholic Church of St Andrew, part of the Bernadine Monastery. Populated with…

2. Golden Rose Synagogue

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The late-16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue stood at the heart of the inner district before the Nazis blew it up in 1943. A piece of wasteland for decades…

3. Arsenal Museum

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The town's former arsenal (1554–56) is now a museum where you can check out suits of armour and various cannons and weapons.

4. Assumption Church

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This Ukrainian Orthodox church is easily distinguished by the 65m-high, triple-tiered Kornyakt bell tower rising beside it. The tower was named after its…

6. St Michael's Church

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This grand, hilltop church is the work of 17th-century Italian architects. It was once the church of a fortified monastery which held out against the…

7. Museum of Religious History

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Attached to the Dominican Cathedral to the left of the entrance is the Museum of Religious History which was actually dedicated to atheism in Soviet times…

8. Dominican Cathedral

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Dominating a square to the east of pl Rynok is one of Lviv’s signature sights, the large dome of the 1764 Dominican Cathedral. Inside, the typical baroque…