In 2006, Lviv celebrated its 750th anniversary. This Ukrainian town is truly a city for the ages, and its layers of neoclassical, rococo, baroque, Renaissance and Gothic architecture bear witness to its long and storied history. Take a private Lviv tour and experience the centuries of beauty on display with a knowledgeable local guide.

Lviv's Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here you can spend hours just strolling its narrow cobbled streets and gazing at the lovely churches, historic homes and monuments that make up the city centre. Start your day with a rich coffee at one of Lviv's many charming coffee houses, then let your guide take you on a long and entertaining walk around the Italian Court, Market Square and Bernardine Monastery, to name a few. Be sure to head up Castle Hill for the panoramic view from High Castle - a quintessential Lviv experience.

Your guide is eager to show you the best of his hometown on your private Lviv tour.

Lviv

Just in 3 hours You will fall in love with Ukraine's Touristic Capital! Rynok Square, 4 quarters: Orthodox, Jewish, Catholic and Armenian, City Wall, Gothic Cathedrals, Renaissance palaces, Baroque churches, cobbled stones, thousands of Lions, dozens of cute coffee-houses, restaurants and hundreds of smiling young faces. All these are waiting for You in our Lviv!!!

You will get to know almost 8 centuries of the city's history, see 50% of Ukraine's UNESCO heritage, attend churches of the different denominations, hear the legends and true stories and even meet the chimney-sweep and the city executor.

Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armenian Cathedral, Italian Courtyard, Pharmacy Museum

Lviv UNESCO heritage and its 4 Medieval quarters

Lviv City Highlights Walking Tour

The Heart of Lviv - Old Town Half Day Tour

Visit the old town center any day, at almost any time, and you'll find a hubbub of activity going on! On this tour I'll guide you through this lively place, show you the hidden secrets few locals know of, and point out the most interesting stories from this city's chequered and turbulent past.

Depending when you visit, the city center may be alive with a Christmas or Easter market, when locally made souvenirs and food are on offer, or there may be a national Ukrainian holiday, music festival or food market! Whenever you visit, be sure that the city center will be alive with activity, the sound of musicians playing and the smell of wonderful food in the air!

Also, just to say, I'm a very adaptable guide so if you have a specific itinerary in mind send me a message and I'll customize the tour for you!

Trams rumbling down Lviv's romantic cobbled streets

Let a local guide you through the maze of medieval streets!

Sunrise over the new memorial to the 'Heavenly Hundred'

The view from one of the center's many rooftop terraces

The city is equally beautiful even when in the grips of winter!

All year around people sell on the streets - I can help you find a nice authentic souvenir!

Lviv's heart beats vibrantly! Join me and let's explore this wonderful area together

We will start the trip early in the morning. During the trip, we will see nice landscapes, forests, hills, and mountains.

Our first stop is the village of Urych and mountain fortress of Tustan. It is possible to see the ancient medieval fortification using Tustan AR app on your smartphone.

We will arrive at Skole, the town in the river valley surrounded by mountains. The town is famous for its wooden architecture and great cuisine.
Skole is the perfect place to start a hike since it is the center of the Skolivski Beskydy national park. There is a waterfall Kamianka near Skole and Dead lake. The latter can be reached only on foot.

We can have dinner in a nice restaurant with local cuisine.

We will have a short hike to magnificent cliffs near the Stryi river and Tyshivnytsia village.

Kamianka waterfall in Dybuna National Park

Visit the Carpathian mountains in just one day. Learn history of the region and see wonderful vistas.

Carpathian Mountains One Day Tour

Open-air Museum Two Hours Tour in Lviv with Private Guide

This a tour around open-air museum (skansen) in Lviv which represents authentic wooden architecture and traditions of Western Ukraine. Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe; this is why Ukrainians are different because of dialects, habits, shape of houses, patterns of embroidery and even traditional dressing. The tour with private guide will introduce the world of Ukrainian folk philosophy, superstitions and beliefs. Visit to open air museum In Lviv with private guide gives nice opportunity to understand Ukrainians better and to learn more about them.
The tour will also make you acquaint with traditional Ukrainian crafts.

Long house, where everything is under one roof and nice collection of beehives

Traditional Ukrainian nicely embroidered folk dressing

Find out more about wooden folk architecture and traditions of Ukrainians in Lviv

This tour will introduce You to the rich Jewish history of Lviv from the 14th century. We are attending memorials and active Synagogue, Jewish cultural center.

Before WW2 Lviv was very much populated by Jewish people (up to 40% of entire population). Unfortunately, by 1942, the Nazis massacred in Lviv Ghetto 137 000 Jews.

During the tour, we shall talk about this tragedy and also about famous Jewish personalities, their lives and contribution to Lviv and World culture.

Soviet Camp Site infront of the Jewish Ghetto

Yiddish and Polish inscriptions on the building in Lviv City center

The Ruin of the 16th century Synagogue Golden Rose demolished by Nazis in 1942

Yiddish, Polish and German Inscriptions on the Building in Lviv City Center

The Active Synagogue of Lviv at Brativ Mikhnovskykh street

Jewish Souvenirs in "Golden Rose" Restaurant at Staroyevreyska street, Lviv

"Space of Synagogues" monument on the spot of the former Synagogue Golden Rose

Synagogues, Holocaust, Ghetto memorials of Lviv

Lviv Jewish History and Culture Tour

Half Day Tour Tracing the Jewish History of Lviv

Lviv is a historic city. The Jewish community, once so numerous in the Lviv population, was a crucial thread in the history of this city. Yet, as in so many other places, the history of the Jewish history of Lviv in the twentieth century is one of persecution, exclusion and horror.

As I sensitively guide you through this tour, we'll see some of the historical sites associated with Jewish memory and commemoration, as well as the former Hasidic synagogue.

Have a look below for more details, and just to say, I'm a very adaptable guide so if you have a specific itinerary in mind send me a message and I'll customize the tour for you!

Inside the 'Golden Rose Restaurant', which we'll visit

The statue at the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Site

Let's explore this important part of Lviv's history together!

This is a perfect opportunity to see most of what the city has to offer in a reasonable amount of time.

We will start at Rynok Square - UNESCO site and the historical center of Lviv. There are more than 500 years of history behind every building, yet the place is not still - it's vibrant and full of life. Souvenir shops, museums cafes, and restaurants had found their homes in old cozy Renaissance buildings.

Our lunch break is the perfect opportunity to try the local cuisine of Galizia region.

Then I will take you to the High Castle Hill - the seat of power of Ruthenian king Daniel. It presents the best bird's-eye view of the city.

Saving the best for last, we have Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.
This Skansen has a plethora of authentic ancient wooden buildings, saved from destruction by passionate professionals. It's perfect for long walks under the shadow of old trees. We will discover farmhouses, cottages, churches scattered around this beautiful landscape park.

Church of the Holy Wisdom. Museum of Folk Architecture and Life

700 years of history: there and back in one day!

One day in Lviv Private Tour

Walking tour around the area, where more than 200 monuments of architecture are located, which is more than one-half of all the ones in Ukraine. The tour is not just about buildings, it is about history, citizens and their habits, traditions and nowadays.

The tour will be concentrated not just on dates and names, but also on unique events, which happened first in Ukraine and in the world here. You will know about the habits of citizens, especially about coffee addiction and about famous "batiars", men who behaved like cockney in London. You will be surprised to know that your country is related to Lviv in an unexpected way because of some heritage or some famous people.

Unique Boim's chapel is listed as UNESCO world heritage the first

St. Andrew church is a real museum of the baroque art

The Royal house at the Rynok square with famous Italian courtyard inside.

Explore highlights of UNESCO World Heritage in Lviv with a private guide

Lviv Private Walking 2 hours Tour

The Lviv Renaissance: Exploring a Transformative Era

The Lviv which one sees today was, in a large part, constructed during the Austrian period of the city's history. The Austrian Empire acquired Lviv in 1772, and stayed until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War. During this period Lviv prospered, magnificent buildings for entertainment such as the Opera House were built, centers for learning established, like Lviv Polytechnic, and the city was electrified and trams were introduced.

Although both the First and Second World Wars took a great toll on the population of Lviv, fortunately many of its buildings remained undamaged. Walking the streets of Lviv today one can see and feel the strong influence the Austrians had on this city. I hope you'll join me for a tour of the Austrian story of this city.

Also, just to say, I'm a very adaptable guide so if you have a specific itinerary in mind send me a message and I'll customize the tour for you!

You'll never guess what material this 'Atlas' sculpture is made of! Join me and I'll reveal it to you...

The Opera House shining like a jewel in the evening

Join me and let's walk through Lviv's tapestry of splendor and progress together!

Lviv is recognized as the capital of coffee and chocolate of Ukraine. The city is full of various coffee shops and is proud of its Lviv Handmade chocolate. During the tour we are visiting Lviv Coffee mine, World of Coffee and Golden Ducat coffee houses and will, of course, taste the chocolate as well as attend some patisseries with Strudels, Cheesecakes, and Sacher-Torte.

Ever since its foundation in the thirteenth century, Lviv has been a sweet-toothed city, and from the very beginning, the delicious pastries and chocolate-coated confectionaries formed a key role in the Lviv economy in the Eurasian trade routes of the Medieval period.

The city's location on the Silk Route and other great trade roads of the Middle Ages brought
its merchants into contact with all manner of exotic sweets, and trade in these sugary delicacies soon became a priority.

A cup of hot chocolate and a cup of coffee

Marcipans and truffles in "Lviv Handmade Chocolate"

Sugafree Chocolate in "Lviv Handmade Chocolate"

Chocolates containing alcohol in "Lviv Handmade Chocolate"

Chocolate dessert and fruit at Leopolis hotel restaurant

Atmospheric "Virmenka" coffee house in Armenian street in Lviv

Indulge yourself in the capital of coffee and chocolate of Ukraine

Lviv Coffee and Chocolate Tasting Tour

Dungeons and Undergrounds of Medieval Lviv

During this tour you'll see the remains of medieval fortifications, we'll see a fascinating alchemical laboratory, an artistic hand-crafted copy of medieval town in the undergrounds of the Jesuit Church, you'll drink a cup of coffee in a coffee mine you have never tasted before, and hear a lot of legends and stories about the life in a medieval city. You'll also see historical artifacts from the Stone Age and Antiquity to the Modern Age. You'll have the chance to visit the Armory Museum where there is one of the best collections of weapons and armors in Eastern Europe.

Here are only some of the questions I'll answer during the tour:
Why was Lviv known as a port of two seas?
What was medieval justice like? A man behind a mask: who was the medieval executioner?
What were medieval battles like?
Who was the Poison King?
Why is there an empty coffin in the church?
How many people lived in a 600 m2 city?
Myths and facts about magic: life and career of XVIII alchemist.
And much more. . .

Architectural contrasts: Baroque dome of the Dominican Cathedral and Renaissance tower of the Dormition church

Hlyniany Gate - the finest example of fortified medieval monastry.

Bernardine monatery complex: Renaissance church topped with Baroque attic and octagonal belltower with mechanical clock and balcony for guards.

Discover mysterious underground labyrinths of Lviv

This a car panoramic city tour around Jewish sights in Lviv and a story about the history of Jews and modern life of them in Lviv.
The tour is an introduction into the history of the Jewish community in Lviv, which was one-third of citizens number.
You will hear about medieval ages and Austrian times and how did Jews survive and preserve their traditions.
It is a story about famous persons and unknown ones, and about Haskala and Holocaust.
You will see nice buildings and unusual paintings. You will have a talk with a rabbi or his wife or their children to hear about modern life.

Memorial stone in front of Janovsky camp of death place

Lviv tours

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$ 103 (USD)

Andriy M.

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Oleksandr R.

$ 60 (USD)

Diana B.

$ 200 (USD)

Solomia

$ 110 (USD)

Andriy M.

$ 190 (USD)

Oleksandr R.

$ 80 (USD)

Solomia

$ 110 (USD)

Diana B.

$ 79 (USD)

Andriy M.

$ 120 (USD)

Oleksandr R.

$ 150 (USD)

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