Duration: 4 days/3 nights
Accommodation: HTL GRAND **** on the half board basis
1 Day:
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Arrival to Lviv, accommodation in the hotel GRAND **** |
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2 Day:
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After breakfast (9-12 A.M.) city tour (main historic highlights - High castle, Market square, Gunpowder Tower, Liberty avenue, monument to Schevchenko, Armenian Cathedral, and others). 03-06 P.M. - visit to the Assumption Cathedral, one of the most beautiful church ensembles in Lviv (16-18 cc). To-day it belongs to Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. You'll meet with the members of St.Andrew Staurophighian brotherhood XV c, in XVI-XVII it was the leading one in Western Ukraine, it had its own school, printing shop, hospital, in 1708 it joined Unia; acquaintance with the exhibits of the museum of Staurophighia (direct subordination of a church or a monastery to Patriarch). Attendance at the service. Dinner at local restaurant. |
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3 Day:
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After breakfast - service at the Roman-Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary. (9-11.30 A.M.) 11-01.30 - visit to the Museum of the History of Religion located in the premises of the former Dominican Monastery. It possesses more than 50 thousand exhibits, among them: silver Byzantine Reliquary (11th c), collection of the Ukrainian icons, ancient Bibles, rich Judaic collection and rare samples of religious sculpture. In the afternoon (03-06 P.M.) drive to Krekhiv (47 km) to visit the Basillian Monastery. Tourists will see this renovated complex (17-18 cc), the original cave of its founders, meet the students of the Theological Seminary. Dinner at the monastery. |
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4 Day:
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After breakfast homebound departure. |