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.
Over mixing the entire center city worked, many different nationalities living in Lviv: Italians, Germans, Ruthenians, Poles, Armenians and Jews.
The area size of 142 to 129 m with 44 houses and town hall in the center. From the original Gothic building that existed before the fire in 1527, preserved wall fragments and parts of the basement.
The buildings were built for members of the nobility and rich merchants, since land in the city center was extremely expensive. Numbering houses in the Middle Ages did not exist, the houses had their own names: "Under the Lion," "When deer", "Lukasiewicz stone."
At Market Square is City Hall, where she worked and is working City Council, and previously sat and City Court. This international meeting place, came Peter I, a lot of Polish, Swedish kings.
In 1793 the Market was built four fountains that stand here today. For two of them used the old wells. Each fountain "received" eight-sided bowl, crowned with a statue of the character of Greek mythology: Amphitrite, Diana, Neptune and Adonis. Fountains survived Dr.
The area attractions include a:
- Lviv Town Hall;
- Museum of History ("Black stone");
- Palace Kornyakta with "Italian Courtyard" and "Royal Room";
- Palace Lubomirski;
- Bandinelli Palace;
- Kamyanytsa Scholz-Volfovychiv;
- Passage Andreolli.
35 apartment house 36 Residential building 37 Residential building 38 Residential building 39 Residential building 40 Residential building 41 Residential building 42 Residential building 43 Residential building 44 Residential building 45 Residential building 46 'Adonis' Fountain 47 'Amphitrite' Fountain 48 'Diana' Fountain 49 'Neptune' Fountain
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| 1 A Town Hall 2 Bandinelli stone. Istrychnyy Museum 3 residential bunykok 4 Black stone. Historical Museum 5 residential building 6 Kornyakta palace. Historical Museum 7 apartment building 8 residential building 9 Dwelling House 10 Lubomirski palace. Museum of Ethnography 11 Residential building 12 dwelling houses 13 Residential building 14 Mascarivska stone 15 Residential building 16 Meshkovskoho stone 17 Residential building 18 Residential building 19 Residential building 20 apartment buildings 21 Residential building 22 Residential building 23 Residential building 24 Residential building. Historical Museum 25 Residential building 26 Residential building 27 Residential building 28 houses 29 Residential building 30 Residential building 31 Residential building 32 Mall
33 Residential building 34 Residential building
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