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Landmarks in Lviv
Landmarks in Lviv
Lychakivskiy Cemetery. There are about four hundred thousand people buried here, including Ukrainian heroes such as Ivan Franko; the park is enormous, and very pleasant to wander around on a network of variously-maintained paths. At the back of the cemetary are a moving series of recently-built war memorials, in the same style as Western World War One cemetaries, to the dead of the 1918-1921 Ukrainian civil wars.
Union of Lublin mound (the High Castle); from there you can see another sandy mound, which you can also climb, and which has a cross devoted to the dead of the war in Afghanistan. From that mound you can walk around the whole central hill-park of the town.
Market Square (Ploshcha Rynok). You can climb the tower of the town hall: go in via the main entrance, wander about until you see a sign 'вхид на вежу', then follow those signs up 103 steps to a ticket-office and up 305 more steps to the top of the tower. There's a great view of the Old Town, and this is clearly one of the romantic spots of the city: I saw a marriage-proposal there.
The Shevchenko Monument, donated by members of the Argentine Ukrainian diaspora, and absolutely unmistakable in the centre of town; a sculpture of the writer, and a wave-shaped monument with Ukrainian folk-art motifs rising to his side. Sometimes seems to be used by locals as a climbing-wall, but I would advise foreigners against this.
Lviv theater
Lviv University (named after Ivan Franko)
Lviv National Polytechnic University
Railway Station
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