WEEKEND AT LVIV
2 days/1 night
1 day
- 6:30 p.m.
Departure from Odessa by train Odessa-Lviv.
2 day
- 06:10 a.m.
Arrival in Lviv. Meeting with the guide at the railway station. - 07:00-08:00 a.m.
Time for a breakfast (additional cost). - 08:00 -12:00 a.m.
Bus walking tour "Hello, Lviv!" Meet the city with cathedral visit St. Yura - the main shrine of Ukraine - The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). The cathedral is known for the unique internal paintings and not less unique iconostasis of the middle of the XVII century. Valuable relic of the temple - Wonder-working Icon of The Holy Virgin Mary of XVII century. Further going to the city top - walk in the High Castle. Then it will be the review of all houses, small streets and all sights from height of bird's flight. The following step - visit of the Lychakovsky cemetery. There are more than three thousand monuments and gravestones at The Lychakovsky necropolis. Among them creations of sculptors and architects Abel Maria Perye, Yulian Markovskogo, Tadeush Baroncha, Leonardo Marconi, Grigory Kuznevich, Sergey Litvinenko, etc. Writers, historians, actors, composers, artists, politicians and many others are buried there. - 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Dinner in the hotel. - 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Hotel check in. - 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Walking tour "Ancient Lviv": Svoboda Avenue, Opera and Ballet House of S. Krushelnitskoy, theater of M Zankovetsky, Adam Mickiewicz St. won't leave anybody indifferent.Rynok Square - open-air museum of 45 multicolored houses of different styles and eras - will shake real judges of architecture. As there always lived many representatives of different nationalities in Lviv it displayed on its history. We will see ancient Armenian and colourful Jewish quarter.And there is more! The pride of our city - well-known museums: Drugstore museum and "Arsenal".
Free time. We recommend to visit the Workshop of chocolate, Tsukernya cafe (Candy House), a coffee house "Svit Kavi" (World of coffee) or any other coffee house of Lviv. Also you can try fresh beer in Kumpel or Stargorod brewery.
3 day
- 9:00-10:00 a.m.Breakfast. Hotel check out.
- 10:00 a.m Round the Gold horseshoe of Lvovshchina (Olesky, Podgoretsky, Zolochevsky Castels) tour.
Olesky Castle is one of the oldest castles in the Western Ukraine which remained since XIII century. It was the residence of the Polish kings and Jan III Sobesky's "cradle". Now in the museum-castle are collected hundreds unique works of painting, sculptures, applied art of X-XIX centuries. - Dinner (additional cost) The Podgoretsky Castle is one of the most known castles of Ukraine - is an outstanding monument of architecture. It was constructed as the castle for entertainments and it surprised with its castle architecture and originality.
The Zolochevsky Castle is constructed in the 1630th like a citadel with bastions. It belonged to the Polish magnates Sobesky and Radzivilam during the XVII-XVIII centuries. There is a big palace and the unique "Chinese" palace which analogs are in St. Petersburg and Berlin in the yard of the castle. - 6:00-7:30 p.m. Dinner. Free time.
- 7:30-8:00 p.m. Transfer to the railway station.
- 8:45 p.m. Departure from Lviv by train Lviv-Odessa.
- 08:35 a.m. Arrival in Odessa.
Price of the tour for one person if group consists of 16 + 1 persons is 1500 UAH
Included in cost:
- transport and excursion service according to the program;
- insurance;
- journey by the train (compartment);
- accommodation in the hotel in comfortable rooms;
- food: 1 breakfast, 2 dinners
Not included in cost:
- breakfast (on request) - 40UAH
- dinner (on request) – 80 UAH.
