Jesuit Cathedral
Jesuit Cahedral is an example of Lviv Baroque style and was erected at the time when the Jesuit Order was consolidating its position in the Western Ukraine. (more…)
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St.Andrew Church
The clock on the complex of ex-monastery of the Bernardine Order next to St.Andrew Church belfry shows the time ahead for 5 minutes of other clocks in the Lviv. When Lviv was in encirclement of the Bohdan Khmelnutskij army, the monk from the belfry of the Bernardine monastery saw the Kmelnitskij’s kozaks sooner for 5 minutes than a soldier from Town Hall Tower. After that incident the special privilege had been granted to the Bernardine monastery – the clock on their belfry shows the time ahead for 5 minutes of other clocks in the Lviv. This tradition keeps until now. (more…)
