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Private tour in Lviv Solomia
Half Day Tour Tracing the Jewish History of Lviv
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Hello! Thank you for coming to my page! My name's Solomia, I'm a Lviv-based tour guide, photographer and translator with a passion for showing my fascinating and beautiful home city to tourists. I've been a fully licensed tour guide since 2008, so if you're looking for a true local Lvivian and highly experienced guide to show you around the city then look no further. I can guide you to the city's most loved areas, like the Opera House and Market Square and regale you with the historical stories of these intriguing places, or I can take you off the tourist trail to experience the authentic sights, sounds and tastes of the city which few tourists get the chance to experience and which only a true local can find! During my decade-long guiding career I've learned much about the city of Lviv, and have a deep understanding of its complex history, culture and traditions. With this experience and knowledge I'm able to be a highly flexible tour guide - I always cater to the particular interests of my clients. If you have an interest in any particular topic, event or theme then please let me know and I will do my best to build a tour specific to you! While I am a highly adaptable guide, I also offer a number of set tours which have proved very popular with my tourists. You can find details of these here on my profile :) If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in contact. During my guiding career I've met many fascinating people from a host of wonderful countries and worked on many projects, for instance showing an Azerbaijani journalist around for a documentary about the city, and more recently I guided a notable YouTuber around the city and contributed to the amazing film made about the stay here. I've also assisted academic researchers, journalists and those visiting for the purpose of tracing their relatives. Whatever your reason for visiting Lviv, I'm happy to help you get the most out of your trip! I can give tours in Ukrainian, English (I was fortunate enough to study here for two years), French, German or Polish. Be sure to check out my photos and I hope to hear from you - let's explore this wonderful city together! I am a fully licenced guide
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Let's explore this important part of Lviv's history together!
Overview of your Lviv tour
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!
Your Lviv tour itinerary
We'll start our tour at the 'Space of Synagogues' memorial site in the center of Lviv, which powerfully commemorates the history of the Jews of Lviv, and see where mezuzahs were once fixed From here we'll walk to the former Krakow suburb of Lviv which, in bygone times, was the hub of Jewish life in the city. While exploring this area we'll see the site where the Reformed synagogue once stood, as well as the Great Suburban synagogue, both sadly gone today. However, we'll see the former Hasidic synagogue, which still stands and is now partly a cultural center After this, we'll visit the Holocaust memorial, the Museum of Terror, the house where Sholem Aleichem, the world-famous 'father of Yiddish literature' lived for 5 months, and walk down Słoneczna Street where, before the war, more than 40 synagogues were located Our tour will end at the Jewish Hospital and old Jewish cemetery. Sadly little remains of the cemetery, but it's an appropriate place to conclude our tour because it dates back to medieval time
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Type: Walking
This is a walking tour, so no transportation is required.
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Lviv, Lviv Oblast, 79000, Ukraine
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