Zygmunt Gorgolewski - main architect of the Opera House (Grand Theatre) (1897–1900). To avoid being accused of using his well-established position in society, Gorgolewski prepared his winning project of the theatre in secret and then sent it under a false name from Leipzig.
Zygmunt Gorgolewski died July 5, 1903 in Lviv and was buried in the Lyczakiv Cemetery. (more…)
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…)
Today’s building of L’viv State University was erected as Seim (Parliament) of Galicia and Lodomeria. The standing statue on the top symbolizes Austria, and the two sitting statues at either side symbolize the two main rivers of old Galicia - Dnister and Visla.
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