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Lviv


The Lviv branch of president Poroshenko's signature chocolate shop is a carbon copy of all the others across Ukraine, complete with clockwork window display, large pick 'n' mix sweet section and powerful air-con.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Lviv attractions

2. Salo Museum

0.09 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 …

3. Latin Cathedral

0.1 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…

4. Boyim Chapel

0.11 MILES

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

5. Lviv History Museum – Rynok 24

0.14 MILES

This branch of the Lviv History Museum expounds on the city's very early days starting with early cultures that inhabited Galicia and ending with the…

6. Bernardine Church and Monastery

0.17 MILES

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…

7. Statue of Taras Shevchenko

0.17 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…

8. Jesuit Church

0.18 MILES

Only reconsecrated in 2011, Lviv's impressive Jesuit church (full name – Garrison Church of Sts Peter and Paul) was used as a book repository during the…