One of the richest cities in Ukraine by the number and importance of the historical and architectural attractions. The medieval part of the city with an area of 120 ha in 1975, declared a state historical-architectural reserve. The ensemble of the historic center of Lviv claim to be listed as a UNESCO historic cities. The most ancient monuments of Lviv concentrated under Castle Hill. Church. Nicholas (XIII c.) Was the court church of Galician princes. CHURCH OF ST. John the Baptist (XIII c.) Built for the wife of Prince Lev Constance - the daughter of the Hungarian King Bela. Both shrines though survived in a modified form, originally built in old style. Closed urban space surrounded by 2 rows of walls - high and low, the moat and filled earth mound. High wall had two entrance of Brahma (the gate) and Galician Krakow, two wickets - Bosyatskuyu and Izuitskuyu and 18 defense towers. Of the defense structures of the city survived two arsenal for weapons and ammunition - and the royal city, the powder tower and fragments of high and low walls.At the heart of the city "in the wall" is rynkovaya Square - the center of commercial and social life. In the Middle Ages there was conducted a brisk trade, stood stone scales, post sentence was the pool and the fish trade. In the center at all times, was the house of the City Council - City Hall.
Heritage of Lviv
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Most of the houses reconstructed several times over the centuries - after the fire, or when changing the host. Each house has its own interesting history. The oldest, extant in its original form - is the Renaissance house - "Black Kamenica", "Palace Kornyakta." Forty-five houses in one small area, forty five monuments - this is a unique open-air museum, a visual history of Lviv architecture.
To the south-western corner of the Market Square adjacent Cathedral Square, where rises the majestic structure of Latin Cathedral. Its construction began in the fourteenth century and lasted more than a century.
Particularly impressive interior of the cathedral with Gothic lancet arches, narrow windows with stained glass windows, richly carved altars and fresco painted walls. Lived on the streets of the Armenian immigrants from Armenia. In addition to residential homes, they built a church, which go back to the beginning of the fourteenth century. Its architecture combined styles and drevneukraiskogo Armenian architecture. Next to the church was the palace of the Armenian archbishops. The heyday of construction in the suburbs have to XVI - early XVII century with Art. At that time, built a beautiful Renaissance ensemble outdoors Russian - Church of the Assumption, a chapel (chapel) and the bell tower of the Three Saints. Church and chapel pattern association traditions with the techniques of Western European Renaissance Ukrainian architecture. Kornyakta belfry, which received its name from the name of Fundator construction, the most beautiful church tower in Lviv.
Bernardine monastery - one more example of Renaissance architecture of the city. The ensemble is built outside of the city fortifications, and therefore had their defense scheme and entrance gate to the tower, fragments of which have survived to modern street Lychakivska. In the XVIII century architecture of the city began to dominate the Baroque. ST. Yuri-zmeebortsa built on the mountain in place Svyatoyursky old wooden church - a magnificent monument of baroque architecture. In the bell tower is the oldest monument of Ukrainian crafts foundry - ringing, cast in 1341 by master James soon. In the crypt of the cathedral are buried usypalnoy Galician prince Yaroslav Osmomysl Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovich Metropolitan Andrej Sheptytsky, Patriarch and Archbishop Joseph Slipyj Vladimir Sterniuk. The ensemble of the Cathedral of St.. Yuri is the residence of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Dominican Church was built almost simultaneously with ST. Yuri. This structure in the late Baroque style with richly decorated with sculptures of the main facade. Valuable part in its interior is a marble tombstone with carved marble. Austrian period" in the architecture of the city marked by the expansion of the city beyond the defense fortification, the formation of new urban neighborhoods along the ancient paths, intensive construction of public and administrative buildings. Medieval ramparts leveled at their place there boulevards and squares. Bright is the period theater of opera and ballet theater, built in 1897-1900 gg Z. Gorgolevskim. Talented architect undertook a bold idea, and built a monumental building next to hide underground riverbed Poltva than completed the newly created term prospect. Decoration of the theater is a wonderful curtain painted by G. Semiradsky - "Parnassus." Beginning XX century architecture characterized by the appearance of Lviv Art Nouveau houses. In Lviv, besides the traditional European, was also a national modern. Home insurance company "Dnester" home resort of the Red Cross, the building of the People's House - wonderful examples of modern Ukrainian. The architectural ensemble of the city - this is a perfect example of combining development of different centuries and styles, construction and artistic influences of different cultures and peoples. Historic preservation planning structure, landscape, monuments, monumental and decorative arts created a unique city - the monument, which is now Lviv.
Cities surrounded а fortress
12/09/2013 16:19With development of industry cities began to be built. Cities were surrounded a fortress and ditch with water, which a bridge went down through. Riding into in a city is possible it was through gates. In cities also in one-story houses were the beginning built.Then, with development of industry, two-storeyed houses began to appear on a few apartments, on changing which the three-storeyed came, so-called "stalinki", which were built in the epoch of stalinizm. After "stalinok" 5 storeyed khruschevki were built by record rates. And then began to build nine-storeyed houses. The floor of dwelling-houses with every year was increased. We look after and now, that mainly built house in no less than twenty floors high.