states: [ukraine]
category: cultural
year: 1998
location: Halychyna, L’viv Oblast'
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 49.8416300000, 24.0319800000
visited: 2010
The city of L''viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative, religious and commercial centre for several centuries. The medieval urban topography has been preserved virtually intact (in particular, there is evidence of the different ethnic communities who lived there), along with many fine Baroque and later buildings.
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