Private tour in Lviv Solomia
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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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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!
Starting at the Opera House, we'll walk down the tree-lined central avenue to the towering Shevchenko statue. Here you'll learn that this statue, which was built in 1992 to commemorate the first year of Ukraine's Independence, was in fact not built in Ukraine, but in a country far, far away. . . We'll say 'hello' to Lviv's own Statue of Liberty, and you'll discover the interesting differences between ours, and the French version. On this tour you'll learn all about the city's once important river, and where to catch a glimpse of it, as well as the former Jesuit Church, Market Square, the Boim family chapel, and I'll tell about the most scandalous corruption case in this city's history! You'll discover 19th century CCTV, the Armenian, Assumption and Dominican churches and meet the bas-relief canine who has successfully guarded the latter for over 200 years Finally, we'll enter the old Jewish area and see where once mezuzahs were embedded into the walls, before being villainously removed
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This is a walking tour, so no transportation is required
Lviv, Lviv Oblast, 79000, Ukraine
I suggest we meet at the front of the Lviv Opera House
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