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Latin Cathedral
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In every medieval town
always were a
town hall
and
cathedral
. The
Latin Cathedral
, which was the spiritual center of the city began to build in XIV century. The first foundation stone was laid in 1360. The project had two towers, one was rising above the cathedral, the second was completed only to the level of the roof. Still,
Latin Cathedral
was the heart of Lviv. It kept military trophies, he was the pride of every citizen.
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Dominican Church
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Dominicans - the Catholics of first order , who came to our land in XV century. Constance - Hungarian Princess married Prince Leo, and under the laws of the time, she was to take the religion of husband - Orthodoxy, but for some reason it did not, and she remained Catholic. The first church of Dominicans was in the princely Lviv.
Later, after they identified the area in the medieval city, here was built Gothic church and monastery.
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Powder Tower
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Powder Tower 1554-1556 years (st.Pidvalna 4) - the only one preserved to this day a monument of fortification construction in Lviv. 
Lion guarding the entrance to the tower.
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Palace Kornyakta
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Palace Kornyakta ( Market Square, 6) - an extremely valuable Renaissance monument in 1580, fr om Lviv Palace of the richest in the history of merchant Constantine Kornyakta.
 Thanks Kornyakta we now enjoy beautiful architectural monuments of the Renaissance city. This stone house built for him in the former two Italian architect Peter Barbon.
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Museum of History ("Black stone")
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Lviv Historical Museum, one of the oldest in Ukraine is an outstanding treasure of historical and cultural monuments of national and global importance.
 Over 110 years of its existence the museum collection formed a stock that is over 330 thousand monuments.
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Lviv Town Hall
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Modern building of the City Council built in the style of Viennese classicism in the middle of the nineteenth century. Overcome the 350 wooden steps, all three rate (47 euro cents) from Town Hall tower observation deck can see the beauty of the ancient city.
 This town hall - the fourth in the history of the city. The first two fires destroyed, the third Renaissance was built in 1619.
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Market Square
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Market Square - the central area in Lviv , a characteristic phenomenon of the medieval architecture of Central European cities. 
Lviv Market Square emerged as a center of Polish-German medieval city after the conquest of the city by the Polish King Casimir the Great, which was the center of Old Market Square. From the corners of Market Square 8 streets away (by modern names - 7 streets and a square): Ruthenian, Serbian, Galician, Cathedral Square, Krakow, Shoe, Printing, Stavropigiyska. Fires, time, and builders in many ways changed its original form.
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The Opera House
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Telling you, in my articles, about the Lviv, I couldn't to not tell you about one of the greatest buildings in our city - about the Lviv Opera House. 
The Lviv Opera House was opened for viewers October 4, 1900 This evening at the theater was showing the premiere - lyrical-dramatic opera "Yanek" Mr. Zhelenskoho - about the life of Carpathian. The major part was singing Ukrainian tenor Alexander Mishuga.
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The St. Nicholas Church
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St. Nicholas' Church - one of the oldest church in Lviv. It was builded in the XIII century. The relic of church is The Wonder-working Icon of Saint Nicholas. The Antiokhia's Patriarch blessed this church in the XVI century.
The church
is arranged in the shape of a cross with a semicircular apse.
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St. George's Cathedral
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St. George's Cathedral is a baroque cathedral with elements of rococo located in Lviv. It was builded between 1744-1760. The cathedral served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during 19th and 20th centuries. 
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