(UKRANIA) Lviv

is the largest city in the western part of Ukraine, the administrative capital of Lviv oblast and the historic center of Galicia, formerly Austrian and Polish province.

Its population was 729,038 inhabitants in 2014.

The architectural ensemble of the old town is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage.

climate :

The climate is moderate continental Lviv. The average temperature is -4 ° C in January and 18 ° C in June. Although there are about 660 mm of rainfall per year, the city is experiencing a dry period in summer. Lviv has an average of 300 days of sunshine per year.

Remarkable places :

- The Dominican church.

- The St. George's Cathedral, baroque-rococo style, built in 1744 and 1760, on a hill overlooking the city.

- The Armenian Cathedral, founded in 1356.

- Jesuit Church in Lviv, in baroque style.

- Bernardine Church, Lviv (Lviv).

- The Church of the Assumption.

- The vast cemetery Lychakivskiy, Ukrainian equivalent of the Père Lachaise. On a wooded hill, it brings together several generations of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Austrians, whose graves, sometimes carved with great refinement, emerging from a thick forest.




- Opera, at the end of the avenue Svobody (Freedom), built in 1900 by architect Gorgolevski.
The bourgeois houses around the place Adam Mickiewicz.

- Place the Rynok (Rynek in Polish market square), with its Renaissance facades and courtyards Italian. At its center is the "town hall" topped by a tower of 65 m. The building is surrounded by four statues representing respectively

- The old city walls and ancient weapons museum.
- Potocki Palace, built in 1889-1890 by architect Louis Dauvergne, for a large Polish aristocratic family in the style of a French mansion.
- Diane, Adonis, Neptune and Amphitrite. The statue of Neptune was where public executions were taking place in the Middle Ages.

- The George Hotel, the faded splendor palace where stayed Balzac and Khrushchev. Sacher Masoch Leopold von there wrote several chapters of his Venus in Furs.

source : www.fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv