12 Market Square, Lviv

12 Market Square, Lviv is an apartment building in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast which is located on площа Ринок. 12 Market Square, Lviv is situated nearby to the residential building 13 Market Square, Lviv, as well as near the apartment building Кам’яниця Гайслярівська.

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Type: Apartment building
Description: building in Lviv, Ukraine
Address: площа Ринок 12, 79008

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lubomirski Palace and Koriniakt Palace (The Royal Town House).

Lubomirski Palace

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The Lviv palace of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski was built in the 1760s to Jan de Witte's design on the site of several older houses. The palace's main façade, featuring decoration by Sebastian Vessinger, is on Market Square.

Koriniakt Palace (The Royal Town House)

Museum

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The Korniakt Palace on Market Square in Lviv is a prime example of the royal kamienica, or townhouse. The fabric of the palace is of various dates. It was originally built by Polish architect Piotr Barbon for merchant Konstanty Korniakt, a champion of Greek Orthodoxy and co-founder of the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood. Koriniakt Palace (The Royal Town House) is situated 120 metres north of 12 Market Square, Lviv.

Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Church

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The Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, usually called simply the Latin Cathedral is a 14th-century Latin Catholic cathedral in Lviv, western Ukraine. Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is situated 160 metres west of 12 Market Square, Lviv.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lviv and Tsytadel.

Lviv

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Lviv is in Western Ukraine and used to be the capital of East Galicia. It's the biggest city of the region and a major Ukrainian cultural centre on the UNESCO World Heritage List.