1st day: Arrival to Lvov

Туристический оператор

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  Accommodation: 2, 3, 4 nights at Lvov
  
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  Meals – breakfasts
  
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  Transfer - airport-hotel-airport
  
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  Lvov walking tour
  

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  Optional program*
  

The elegancy and fineness, all those things the city of lion is famed for, had appeared just right during Austrian rule, when the city became the capital of Kingdom of Galizien and Volhynia. The tour walks along districts, built mostly during Austria-Hungary empire period. Lvov had been developing swiftly then. The located here various architectural schools left behind a beautiful architecture. We will promenade in the oldest in Ukraine park, that remembers the time of fun and citizens amusements starting from 17 century, will walk Lvov Corso (Shevchenko Avenue) and will visit 5 central squares of Lvov.

This tour is addressed to those who longs to learn Lvov history starting from its founding. During the tour you will visit the Church of St Paraskeba (Pyatnitskaya),13^th century, the monastery of St. Onufriy and Onufriy Church (13^th – 17^th centuries), the kostel of St. John the Baptist (13^th – 19^th centuries), the Old Market (the oldest market place in Lvov), the oldest sample of the city monumental architecture – Nickolaevskaya church (till 10^th century), the former monastery hospital of St. Vikentiy and Paulo, the kostel of St. Kazimir, Holy Spirit church. In the end of tour you will get up to the park Vysokiy Zamok (High Castle) where there are the remains of castle’s walls and tumulus, and enjoy a bird’s eye view of city panorama.

The coffee scent… Its aroma floats over the coffee houses … To have a business talk or a heart-to-heart conversation they say “Let’s have coffee!” in Lvov. Why is it just like that? Where is this tradition from? Why is it just in Lvov? You’ll get the answers not only to these questions but learn a lot of new and interesting about coffee, the ways of its preparations, about coffee drinking traditions, you’ll visit the Lvov most typical coffee houses. And the last but not the least – you’ll get the opportunity to learn the fortune by coffee grounds, and everybody in Lvov knows – coffee doesn’t lie!

This tour will take you over the most romantic places of Lvov. In this journey you can dip into love stories of both noble and famous citizens and ordinary people, millers and kings, countesses and petty bourgeoisies, that is every Lvov citizens, who romantic stories pass by word of mouth year after year. You’ll be touched by story of female “rebellion” in defence of duelist in love …

The tour will get you acquainted with city inside, will show you the most resonant knaips (café), every of them got its own special spirit and rhythm. The museum-restaurant “Gasova lyampa” will tell you of the highest Lvov pub life, of kerosene lamp invention and oil fever. Galician Jewish knaip “Under golden Rose” will merge you into unique Jewry world, meet you with traditions and cuisine, and treat you to peisahovka (jewdish raisin vodka). The coffee house “Oldish tram” is the only functioning tramway monument in Ukraine. “Masoch-café” is the window to the world, created in the vein of “masochism father” works – writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch …. Moreover, every visitor gets unique souvenirs.

The Lvov region Golden Ring trip (Olesko, Zolochiv and Pidhirci castles).

The museum is located under the open sky in the beautiful countryside. The wooden houses, utility outhouses and churches of 19^th century will return you to before last century. They were collected and carried from different parts of Ukraine and Galicia. There are more than 120 architectural monuments, including churches, smithy, sawmill, school, watermill and windmill. The oldest exhibit is the peasant hut dated 1749 year.