About Lviv

Lviv is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Past and modern have integrally intertwined here. Lviv is a pearl of Europe, capital of Halychyna, a city which has managed to maintain the old face over seven centuries. Lviv is also the city of temples, architecture monuments. It looks like an open-air museum. Narrow small streets, majestic temples create the feeling of the time that stopped.

The stormy and extremely interesting history of the unique Ukrainian city of Lviv is seven and a half centuries long. Lviv emerged in mid-13th century as the capital of a powerful Eastern European state – the Halychyna-Volyn Principality. Owing to its unique geographical location at the intersection of the main trade routes between the West and the East, in the 15th-17th centuries Lviv became a leading trade centre of the Eastern Europe and the largest city in Ukraine. Being for half a millennium in the European cultural space, the city turned into a genuine architectural pearl, a centre of book printing, crafts and arts.

In the 18th-20th centuries Lviv as a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire became known as the city of technical innovations. For instance, kerosene and the kerosene lamp were invented here for the first time in the entire world.

Between 1939 and 1991 Lviv was under the reign of totalitarian Soviet Union. From the first days of Ukraine independence Lviv obtained the status of the cultural and spiritual capital of the whole country. Quite recently, in 2006, Lviv celebrated its 750th anniversary.

The life in the city flows slowly with majestic rest. There is no noisy crowd or a roar of cars here. It is possible to walk in small streets of Lviv for the whole days, each time opening something new and interesting for yourself. Everyone, who has visited Lviv at least once, returns here again and again as it is impossible to forget this old romantic city.

Lviv is also the city of rapid economic development, with numerous offices of firms and modern hypermarkets, branched out system of bank services. Staying in our city provides businessmen with the possibility to expand business contacts, hold business meeting, exchange experience.

This city is known as the centre of art, literature, musical and the theatrical art. Today the considerable quantity of theatres, concert halls, creative associations, and also holding of numerous art events are the incontestable evidence of cultural wealth of the city. Temples, frescos, painting, traditions, holiday and festivals are the inheritance of the past and product of the modern genius which can be felt only in Lviv.

Thanks to the sated cultural program, the developed infrastructure (now there are more than 8000 places in hotels in Lviv; more than 700 restaurants and cafes work here; there are free WіFі zones in city centre; there is a good connection with many countries of the world thanks to flights Lufthansa, Austrіan Aіrlіnes, LOT, CarpatAіr, low-cost - carrier Wіzzaіr) Lviv has the greatest tourist potential in Ukraine.

Photo - Yurko Dyachyshyn

More information about Lviv you can find on the following web-site www.lviv.ua