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Residents of Lviv, internally displaced persons and city guests are invited to a series of excursions «Walks through Lviv». In particular, you can visit «Noble walk from dragons to elephants», «STREET ART tour», «INSTA – tour».
Also, Lviv residents and guests of the city are offered:
to walk «Baker Street in Lviv», «Royal Forest», «Blooming Stryiskyi Park», «Lychakiv Cemetery»;
to learn «About coffee, chocolate and (un)probable stories», «Where did Lviv come from», «Military history of Lviv XIII-XVIII centuries»;
to see «Lviv and its inscriptions, bas-reliefs and murals», «Lviv through the eyes of prominent Lviv residents»;
to find «Lviv Lions» and «The Road to the Jesuit Garden»;
to visit the majestic temples of Lviv and join other excursions.
As part of the «Walks through Lviv» project, professional guides of the city offer their tours at an affordable price or for a voluntary contribution. Those who are unable to pay can take the tours for free.
According to the Lviv City Council, the tours are limited in time and number of people due to martial law. In case of notification of air alarm during walks, guides will offer to go to the shelter. All participants of the tour must have a passport of a citizen of Ukraine, or identity documents.
Friday, April 29
15:00 – walking tour «Places of Terror: from oblivion to memory», a new route from the series of street tours «Lviv: life in the territory of terror» by Halyna Vyliyka, guide of the Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes «Territory of Terror».
Meeting: Svobody Avenue, the monument to Taras Shevchenko. Duration: 1.5 hours – 2 hours. Contacts: 063 99 20 767.
16:00 – performance «Natalka-Poltavka» in the Maria Zankovetska theatre.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes. Contacts: 093 44 53 537 – Valeria.
19:00 – «Ukrainian Live.» Music of young Lviv composers.
Meeting: Lviv Organ Hall, st. Bandery, 11. Duration: 1 hour. Contacts: 095 74 53 437 – Yulia.
Saturday, April 30
13:00 – A walk in Franko Park with Oleksandra Sladkova and Pavlo Hudimov.
Meeting: entrance from Slovatskoho Street (near the flowerbed in front of the University). Duration: 2 hours. Contacts: 097 92 49 792 – art centre «I Gallery».
16:00 – art-excourse from Svitlana Stoyan «Meeting III. From Antiquity to the Proto-Renaissance»
Meeting: Centre for Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, Powder Tower, st. Pidvalna, 4. Contacts: 068 86 08 604.
19:00 – Vivaldi. «Seasons», performed by Lviv virtuoso musicians Andrian Bodnar and Svitlana Pozdnysheva.
Meeting: Lviv Organ Hall, st. Bandery, 11. Duration: 1 hour. Contacts: 095 74 53 437.
Sunday, May 1
14:00 – Bach’s music performed by Olena Matselyukh
Meeting: Lviv Organ Hall, st. Bandery, 11. Contacts: 0957453437 – Yulia, mandatory registration.
19:00 – De profundis. Solo concert of the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic organist Stanislav Kalinin
Meeting: Lviv Organ Hall, st. Bandery, 11. Contacts: 095 74 53 437 – Yulia, mandatory registration.
The list of all excursions can be found here.
Translated by Vitalii Holich
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