Dear citizens and guests of Lviv!

Lviv’s proud status of the cultural capital of Ukraine is both an achievement and a commitment to keep its high reputation up. For the last years Lviv has created a number of new cultural projects, not forgetting to support traditional artistic events.

Lviv citizens as well as annually growing number of tourists expe-rienced Lviv not only as a city famous for its ancient architecture, but also as a city of creative, active and positive people. A good festival is a meeting of good performers with good spectators. I am very proud of our artists and a wonderful atmosphere they create together with the festival visitors. With kind intentions, optimism and emotional rising we will together glorify Lviv – the best city in the world.

Welcome to Lviv!

Mayor of Lviv Mr. Andriy Sadovyy

1 Christmas Holidays in Lviv

2 «Christmas Star Shine» Festival

3 The 11 th Christmas Festival «Velyka Koliada» («The Great Christmas Carol»)

4 The 3rd Pampukh’s Holiday

5 Ethno Disco Festival

6 The 3rd Chocolate Day

7 Great Ukrainian Poet T. Shevchenko Commemorative Days

8 Easter in Lviv

9 «The Great Hayivka» Feast

10 «Lviv Fashion Week»

11 Street Dance Festival

12 Children Readings Festival «Publishers’ Forum for Children»

13 The 3rd City Holiday «The Batyar’s Day»

14 «Flugery L’vova» («Weather-Vanes of Lviv») – the 8th International Jazz Festival

15 «Friends’ World» International Children’s Art Festival

16 «Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts» Festival

17 Lviv City Day, Parade-Carnival

18 The Mother’s Day

19 Museums Night

20 «Field of Songs» Festival

21 The 29th International Musical Festival «Virtuosi»

22 The 3rd «Wiz-Art» International festival

23 «Ancient Lviv» Medieval Culture Festival

24 «Young Talents in Ward of King Danylo» – Festival of young painters

25 «Fairy-Tale in the Groove» – The 7th theatre festival for children

26 «Summer on the Rynok Square» Art Festival

27 The 2nd Lviv Beer Festival

28 The 4th Organ Music Festival «Diapason»

29 «The Land of Dreams» International Ethnic festival

30 The 2nd «LvivKlezFest»

31 Cheese & Wine Holiday

32 Festyny Diany (Diana’s Feast)

33 The 3rd International Folklore Festival «Etnovyr» («Ethnowhirl»)

34 Independence Day

35 The 5th International Independent Film Festival «KinoLev – 2010»

36 Bread Day

37 The 3rd Week of Contemporary Art

38 MediaDepo

39 Brass Band Festival

40 The 17th Lviv International Book Fair

41 The 4th City Holiday «Have a Cup of Coffee in Lviv»

42 The 16th International Avant-Garde Music Festival «Contrasts»

43 «Vereteno» («Spindel») Authentic Art festival

44 «Golden Lion» International Theatre Festival

45 The 8th Festival of the Ancient Music

46 The 4th Blacksmith Art Festival «Zaliznyy Lev» («The Iron Lion»)

47 The 2nd Tourist Conference «Win with Lion!»

48 The 6th Festival «Drabyna» («The Ladder»)

49 The 10th International festival «Jazz Bez»

50 St. Nicolas’s Day

Lviv is an extremely attractive tourist centre of Ukraine. It is a city of mag-nificent architectural landmarks: impressive temples and ancient squares, cosy narrow streets, museums and galleries housing artistic masterpieces of different historical epochs…

Carefully preserving the historical heritage, Lviv citizens always try to demonstrate their up-to-dateness. It was in Lviv where traditional cel-ebration of the holidays has got a new format of various theme festivals.

Creative spirit of the carved in stones centuries’ mystery is as if invisibly breathing everywhere in Lviv. This city produces the majority of new art and modern culture trends in the country, as well as the ideas of vari-ous interesting entertainments. No wonder that 50 different festivals are listed in Lviv Calendar of Events 2010.

According to the old beliefs every uttered, written or otherwise manifest-ed number has its magic power. Number «5» symbolizes strong energy, enthusiasm, discovery of new phenomena, progress, risk and passion for the unusual. Number «0» symbolizes trust, stability, confidence and abil-ity to open heart undertakings.

Symbolic digits of 50 Lviv festivals presuppose combination of traditional artistic events and the initiation of new ones, thus creating a magic orna-ment of the Festival Lviv where you’re sure to find a vast array of different events to suit all tastes.

There’s so much happening in Lviv all year round. Whether you visit Lviv in spring, summer, autumn or winter you’re to feel the atmosphere of a holiday!

Enjoy visit to the Festival Capital of Ukraine!

Here are our top highlights to help you plan your Lviv diary.

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Christmas Holidays in Lviv Dates: 06-21 January 2010 Location: Lviv Medieval CentreWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 +38 (032) 235 48 82

The city of Lviv has always been preserving authentic Ukrainian traditions. That is why Christmas celebration is full of a special charm here. Lviv citi-zens carefully cherish old customs and create new modern versions of different stylish amusements.During the whole month of Christmas Holidays you’ll have a pleasure to admire beautiful melodies of kolyada (traditional Ukrainian Christmas carol), to smile watching Nativity plays amateur performances, to listen to the street and church concerts or visit various festivals, fairs and mar-kets throughout Lviv centre. You may buy unique handicraft presents here, cheer hot vine or indulge in eating tasty Christmas sweets! Pampukhs or Christmas Dougnuts, Puffs (sort of fritter) are season’s favourites!

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«Christmas Star Shine» Festival

Dates: 07-08 January 2010Location: 07 January – Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in the Open Air (1, Chernecha Hora) 08 January – City centre (Rynok Square, Svoboda (Freedom) Avenue, St. Yura Place) Web: www.skansen.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

The Festival revives the tradition of creating large Christmas stars (1,5-2 m), the main symbols of Christmas. On the 7th of January you’ll have a chance to participate in the Nativity plays amateur perform-ances, wearing traditional costumes, join Christmas singers, taste pam-pukhs and uzvar (fragrant dried fruits compote). On the 8th of January you’ll be fascinated by the festive walk of star keepers, carol singers, Vertep - Nativity plays performers in the city downtown. We invite you to enjoy unforgettable fairy scenes!

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The 11th Christmas Festival «Velyka Koliada» («The Great Christmas Carol»)

Dates: 07-31 January 2010 (Gala-Concert on January, 31)Location: St. Eucharist Church (The Holy Communion Church) 3, Museum PlaceWeb: www.velykakoliada.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 86 77

Festival «Velyka Koliada» («The Great Christmas Carol») is undoubt-edly a special, full of Holy Spirit event. More than 70 different groups, 2000 amateur and professional singers and musicians are taking part in 20 concerts. Choirs, authentic folklore groups, orchestras and brass bands perform traditional carols, their modern adaptations and arrangements as well as classical Christmas musical compositions. The culmination of the festival is a gala-concert on the 31st of January. You’ll feel all the greatness of God and Christmas listening to the carols performed by the best festival choirs in the baroque church building.

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The 3rd Pampukh’s HolidayDates: 08-10 January 2010Location: Rynok Square, 1 (City Hall Courtyard)Web: www.pampuh.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 294 96 44

Small fried balls powdered with sugar are the sweet symbols of Christ-mas. Ukrainian «pampukhy» and «pampushky», Polish «ponczki», Rus-sian «ponchiki», Jewish «sufganiyots», American «doughnuts»…they are so similar and yet so different from each other. Every family cooks their own ones – sweet and not that sweet, filled with poppy and mar-malade, or just empty, but all really delicious. Welcome to the Third City Pampukh’s Holiday! You’ll watch the process of baking, learn reci-pes and history of the Christmas dish, and taste different kinds of pam-pukhs. You’ll spend fantastic time in the atmosphere of holiday and win traditional prizes! It is so nice to share delight of tasting the ‘‘Christmas Sweet Hero» with your family, friends, neighbours and joyful crowd of the Holiday participants. So, let’s enjoy ourselves!

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Ethno Disco FestivalDates: 13 January 2010Location: Palace «Ukraine« (18, Melnyka Street)Web: www.krayinamriy.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 237 73 33

«Let’s jump up and down dancing in Ethno-Disco style!»- the initiator of «Land of Dreams Festival» Oleh Skrypka sings. In the evening, on the 13th of January, on Melanka’s folk holiday you are invited to partici-pate in the popular «Vechornytsi Ethno Disco» or «Ethno Disco Evening Party». Joining old and modern national traditions, the action combines old dances, songs, and Ukrainian poetry with the ultra modern wild dance rhythms and funny surprises. The highlight of the holiday is the Old Folk Dances School where everyone gets the opportunity to follow basic movements of the popular flaming dances «Hrechanyky», «Oyra», and «Hopak». Obligatory dress code is a Ukrainian national costume or at least its elements on you favourite dress.

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The 3rd Chocolate Day Dates: 06-08 March 2010 Location: Rynok SquareWeb: www.shokolad.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 294 96 44

For many centuries Lviv has been rejoicing citizens and guests with the unique aura made up by coffee and chocolate aromas felt everywhere in Lviv. Delicious Lviv sweets have their long history. In the Middle Ages Lviv citizens tasted French and Oriental chocolate for the first time. Lat-er local confectioners and bakery masters began to produce their own diverse sweet goodies. At the beginning of the XXth century there used to be a confectionery practically in every house of the modern Svoboda and Shevchenko Avenues. Lviv became the second European capital of chocolate, after Swiss Berne.His Majesty Chocolate has won Lviv citizens’ hearts forever. People eat and drink, give it as gifts and enjoy themselves, they dream about choc-olate. It is a necessary present while visiting friends, making proposals, having guests. Only in the sweetest city of Ukraine chocolate has its special name «chokolyada». Lviv citizens have even invented their own currency - when they want to express gratitude to somebody, they usu-ally say: «I owe you a chocolate».Lviv Chocolate Day invites you to enjoy baking and tasting of the long-est chocolate cake, to take chocolate making classes, observe chocolate fountains and sweets cascades, join competitions or games for children and adults, visit concerts and theatre performances. Nowhere else you can watch the whole process of chocolates producing at the impromptu chocolate factory, but in Lviv. Make a sweet present to your family, join Lviv Chocolate Day!

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Great Ukrainian Poet T. Shevchenko Commemorative DaysDates: 09-10 March 2010 Location: City centre, museums and concert hallsWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

The tradition of commemorating Taras Shevchenko during the month of March has a long history in Lviv. Taras Shevchenko is not only a genius poet, but a personification of Ukrainian independent soul! The square in front of the monument to Shevchenko becomes the celebrations centre for several spring days. People are gathering there to read and to listen to the immortal poems and songs to words by Shevchenko. They speak about the importance of following Taras Shevchenko’s example of a hu-manist and patriot. That is a time for everyone to realize Shevchenko’s place in his own life. «The Shevchenko Fest» contest may be considered a continuation of the Commemorative Days. Every May young authors are competing for the awards in the nominations «Songs to Shevchenko words», «Poetry» and «Shevchenko’s Subjects in Visual Art».

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Easter in LvivDates: 03-06 April 2010Location: Central part of the city, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Strreet)Web: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

Easter is a family holiday in Ukraine and Lviv is the best place to feel this atmosphere. It is only here that the family spirit is present in each temple, on every square and in each street where traditional Easter folklore celebrations, fairs, concerts and theatre performances take place. World known Ukrainian Easter eggs, embroidery, ceramics, deco-rations, woodcarvings are attracting all the guests of the Easter Markets. Traditional joyful «Hayivka» – Ukrainian Easter picnic combined with songs, games and dances will bring spring not only to the nature but to your heart as well.

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«The Great Hayivka» FeastDates: : 04-06 April 2010Location: Central part of the city, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Strreet)Web: www.skansen.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life annually hosts the ethnographic festival «The Great Hayivka». Hayivkas are spring songs, sung during the Easter holiday. Easter Eggs Decorating Classes usually start a few weeks before the festival.The «Easter Egg for the Sweetheart» contest in the Shevchenko Grove, games and dances for children on the Willow Kitten Lawn, Easter presents market, concerts and refreshments are the integral events of the Feast. «The Great Hayivka» is the Easter meeting point for families, old friends as well as all Lviv citizens and guests.

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«Lviv Fashion Week»Dates: 09-11 April 2010, 21-24 October 2010Location: Central part of the cityWeb: www.lvivfashionweek.comTel.: +38 (032) 243 39 27

Lviv Fashion Weeks are traditionally held in spring and autumn. For three days you will be appraising up to thirty collections of Ukrainian and for-eign designers. Fashion-shows are followed by the exhibitions of contem-porary art – painting, drawing, photography, thus creating the overall special artistic atmosphere of the events.

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Street Dance FestivalDates: 24 April 2010Location: Central part of the cityWeb: www.fri.net.uaTel.: +38 (032) 271 95 17

Project «Street Dance» is an attempt to create a new look of the tradi-tional city street life. This usually beautiful spring day the best dancers of Ukraine gather in Lviv to show their art, among them talented and active young people from Lviv. Dancing is their style of life. Come and join them, it will be fun and jovial.

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Children Readings Festival «Publishers’ Forum for Children»

Dates: 29 April - 01 May 2010Location: Lviv Gallery of Arts, 17, Copernicus StreetWeb: www.bookforum.com.uaTel.: +38 (032) 276 41 52

Children Readings Festival is one of few in the Central and Eastern Europe. It is entirely dedicated to the literature for children. Especially for young readers and their parents a book fair, presentations of the children lit-erature publishing houses, meetings with writers, master classes, books competitions and lotteries, charity events and discussions of the special-ists are arranged. Make a good present to your child!

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The 3rd City Holiday «The Batyar’s Day»Dates: 01 May 2010Location: Rynok (Market) SquareWeb: www.batyar.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 294 96 44

You’ll get a unique opportunity to dive into stylistics and atmosphere of the authentic Lviv phenomenon – the Batyars’ World. That is a world with its own street language and city folklore of the beginning of the XX cen-tury. Lviv Batyar is a freedom – loving, witty, gallant and romantic idler. Taking part in the Batyar’s Day programme visitors and citizens eas-ily catch special feeling of immortal Lviv spirit and the old city humour. Concerts of Batyars’ bands, different funny competitions, and quizzes for children, retro – movie festival, Batyars’ songs and dances master-classes for everybody, as well as tasty refreshments and drinks are everywhere to enjoy all the participants of the city holiday.Being Batyar is universal. It does not depend upon ethnic, religious or po-litical belongings. It is just a special kind of self-identification with the na-tive beloved city. Batyars of the whole world, unite! Join Lviv jolly crowd!

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«Flugery L’vova» («Weather-Vanes of Lviv») – the 8th International Jazz Festival

Dates: 01-04 May 2010Location: Rynok Square (City Hall Courtyard)Web: www.dzyga.com.uaTel.: +38 (032) 244 47 78

Ethno-Jazz Festival «Flugery L’vova» in the City Hall Courtyard becomes one of the top popular actions of Lviv City Day programme every year. For three days the Festival welcomes world-class musicians in Lviv, pre-senting international stars and fresh new talents from the Ukraine’s own burgeoning scene. Every year free event is enabling a huge number of people to enjoy the outstanding selection of jazz music and spend a good time in a good company.

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«Friends’ World» International Children’s Art FestivalDates: 06-10 May 2010Location: Youth Arts Centre «The Rainbow» (47, Antonovycha Street), Lviv Philharmonic Society Concert Hall (7, Tchaikovsky Street), Rynok (Market) Square, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora)Tel.: +38 (032) 237 24 22

Annual International Children’s Art Festival «Friends’ World» is a special point of the Mother’s Day programme. Folk music groups, Ukrainian tra-ditional musical instruments bandura and sopilka (pipe) players, dance and vocal ensembles are among the festival participants. The festival provides all children the opportunity to experience arts from around the globe and across the country, to share traditions and meet new friends. Enjoy the universal world of art and wonder the friendly spirit and imagi-nation of children!

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«Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts» Festival

Dates: 07-09 May, 21-24 August, 11-20 December 2010 Location: Rynok (Market) Square, Arsenalna Square, Pidvalna Street, «Mystets’ka (Artistic) Fosa»Web: www.idem.org.uaTel.: +38 (032) 295 69 68, 254 61 55

Lviv has always been famous for its craftsmen in Europe. Traditional festival of Lviv handicrafts is not only a fair but a presentation of the craft guilds, direct personal contacts with well-known artists, master classes and open-air exhibitions and entertainments everywhere in the city historical centre.Many prominent artists together with brewers, cheese makers, cookery experts, beekeepers, blacksmiths, potters, stonecutters, weavers, fur dressers, jewellers, stained-glass masters, gun smiths, ceramists and engravers are taking active part in «Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts» Festival. Absolutely fantastic decorative art goods such as batik, folk toys, embroidery, and leather goods have their special place attracting attention of all the guests.

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Lviv City Day, Parade-CarnivalDates: 08-10 May 2010Location: Central part of the cityWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

«Where else can you feel as fine as here?» Annually this question gets the same answer: «Only in Lviv», at the time of the City Day celebra-tions. That is a holiday of great entertainment traditions: impressive street theatre performances, concerts and festivals. Holiday events in-clude performances of jazz, world music, rock and pop, dance, comedy, film premières and award ceremonies to fit any taste.In 2010 the guests will have the opportunity to enjoy thousands of participants of the Great Street Parade-Carnival. Among them: children amateur groups, armoured knights, walking on stilts actors, carriages with angels, city sightseeing car-train called «A Miracle Train» bringing disable children to the holiday, members of youth and sport organiza-tions, folk dance ensembles, representatives of national minorities and public organizations... All the parade is singing, dancing and performing. This colourful festive action unites Lviv citizens and guests every year.

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The Mother’s Day Dates: 09 May 2010Location: Rynok (Market) Square, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life Web: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

The Mother’s Day in Ukrainian Galicia is being celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Children love to make presents to their mothers with their talents and handmade gifts that day. Lviv citizens and guests of the city have the opportunity to admire children and their mothers dancing, singing, exhibiting paintings and crafts, taking part in competitions and festive actions. All the theatres prepare special performances devoted to the Mother’s Day. Nice day to visit Lviv!

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Museums Night Dates: 15-16 May 2010Location: Museums of LvivWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Visit Lviv when all the museums are open from the early morning till the midnight and special exhibitions and actions are organized for the visitors. The guests are invited to listen to the jazz program observing paintings of the XXth. century beginning, listen to the poetry accompanied by lyrical music in the portrait halls, visit theatre performances and classical music concerts in the museums or watch movies about the museums on the outdoor screens… Unique collections of the eighteen Lviv museums are waiting to thrill you!

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«Field of Songs» FestivalDates: 16 May 2010Location: Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.skansen.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

Traditional Lviv Ukrainian Song Festival is an important event in Ukrainian culture and social life. About 5 000 best singers from Lviv and different re-gions of Ukraine altogether participate in the event. Although usually folk-songs and classical choir songs are sung, recently new modern songs have been incorporated into the repertoire. Basically the largest choir in Ukraine getting kitted out in national dress and singing their hearts out will impress everybody! Visit traditional Galician festival «Field of Songs»!

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The 29th International Musical Festival «Virtuosi» Dates: 16 May - 06 June 2010Location: Lviv Regional Philharmonic Society Concert Hall (7, Tchaikovsky Street)Web: www.philharmonia.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 272 10 42 (box office),272 67 25, 097 700 83 58 (marketing department)

The «Virtuosi» («Virtuosos») festival is a popular three-week summer season of daily classical music concerts. The event was founded in 1882, and now each season consists of over 30 concerts of the well known musicians and orchestras. That is a period when many musical stars, winners of the prestigious international contests, are gathering in Lviv to perform! The «Virtuosi» festival time in Lviv is a paradise for opera and classical music lovers!

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The 3rd «Wiz-Art» International festivalDates: 20-23 May 2010Location: Location: Lviv Palace of Arts (17, Copernicus Street)Web: www.wiz-art.com.uaTel.: (063) 62 86 773

That is a festival of short films produced during the last year: fiction films and animations, video art, experimental movies and video artists’ presentations.Festival program consists of the competition and out-of-competition blocks. The winners of the competition are determined by the jury in the following nominations: «Fiction Film», «Animation», and «Experi-mental Movie». After each film show the spectators vote for the film

- winner of the audience award.

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«Ancient Lviv» Medieval Culture FestivalDates: 22-23 May 2010 Location: Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora), City Hall CourtyardWeb: www.silverwolf.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 233 36 28

Imagine a totally electrifying, full day out in a medieval city. «Ancient Lviv» festival invites you to meet the old - time heroes, beautiful ladies and brave knights, court jesters and a city executioner directly in the me-dieval Lviv streets. Come and you’ll take the opportunity to try archery, buy old shape smith and pottery goods, listen to the medieval music… Go deep into the history of one of the oldest cities of Ukraine!The main event of the festival is the knights’ tournament – a colourful show which gained its second revival. Tournament participants are the representatives of numerous historical reconstruction clubs from the dif-ferent countries of the world.

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«Young Talents in Ward of King Danylo» Festival of young painters

Dates: 01 June – 01 September 2010Location: Lviv Palace of Arts (17, Copernicus Street), central part of the city, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.artclass.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 238 63 37, +38 (067) 843 97 67

On the 1st of June, on the occasion of the International Child Protection Day the festival «Young Talents in Ward of King Danylo» is held. Children are invited to take part in the open air painting session in Lviv. Next day «Golden Easel» international contest starts and lasts throughout the summer. The best works will be exhibited in the National Museum and Lviv City Hall. The year winner will be awarded with the prize - an easel made of real gold.

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«Fairy-Tale in the Groove» The 7th theatre festival for children

Dates: 05-06 June 2010Location: Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.skansen.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

In front of the old village cottages and on the picturesque lawns the he-roes of the fairy tales revive. Old Leo, Kind Fairy and Hayovyk (Kind Wood Goblin) invite little kids to participate in the show. The «Entertainment Glade» and «Tale-Narrators’ Glade» are offering children funny games and meetings with the famous fairy tale narrators and fabulists. Join the game and feel yourself a child while visiting the museum!

«Summer on the Rynok Square» Art FestivalDates: : 06 June - 29 August 2010Location: Rynok SquareWeb: www.litonarynku.lviv.ua, www.cultureandtourism.lviv.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Summer in Lviv Medieval Centre is full of life and music and entertain-ment during all three months. In the day time master classes of artists, blacksmiths, florists, and choreographers as well as sports presenta-tions are inviting all the guests to the Rynok Square. Numerous cosy cafes and refined restaurants are attracting by smells of delicious food and coffee. Live music is heard everywhere in the old city. In the evening amateur and professional street tango and salsa groups and theatres, ethnic and popular music orchestras, clowns and out door cinema are creating the atmosphere of the everyday holiday and entertainment. Summer is a fantastic time to visit Lviv!

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The 2nd Lviv Beer Festival Dates: 11-13 June 2010Location: Central part of the cityWeb: www.beerfest.lviv.ua, www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Experience the excitement of the Lviv Beer Festival that maintains tradi-tions of high beer culture. This Festival is an attempt to combine the old recipes and traditions with modern technologies. Lviv could be called the beer capital of Ukraine. The amber drink has been brewed here from 1715. No wonder that beer and ancient Lviv create the cheerful atmosphere of the holiday, performance and entertainment during the whole festival time. Joyful Batyar’s Lviv, Medieval Lviv, Lviv of Craftsmen will be treating guests with the beer. These actions will join the most interesting, important and the best especially for you.

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The 4th Organ Music Festival «Diapason»Dates: 27 June - 25 July 2010Location: Lviv Organ and Chamber Music Hall (8, St. Bandera Street)Web: www.organy.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 272 39 53

The «Diapason» festival reminds of Lviv as the organ music centre. Lviv has got the richest organ music tradition in Ukraine. In old times the city competed with such known capitals as Krakow, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, and Vilnius.At the beginning of the XX century there were almost 40 organs and 6 factories producing the instruments in Lviv. It is in Lviv where the revival of organ music in Ukraine started after the WW2. St. Mary Magdalene Church’s organ (Lviv Organ and Chamber Music Hall today) is considered to be one of the best in Europe.«Diapason» festival is an important step in the six hundred years history of the organ music development in Lviv. Famous organists and young performers from all over the world are coming to Lviv annually to fasci-nate audiences with their filigree technique and passionate emotions.

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«The Land of Dreams» International Ethnic festivalDates: 17 July 2010Location: Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.krayinamriy.lviv.ua

Life without dreams is like an ocean without water, says Oleh Skrypka, the initiator and organizer of the Ethno Festival Krayina Mriy and frontman of the Ukrainian rock-group Vopli Vodoplyasova. He wanted his dreams of a folk music festival to come true — and they did. The Festival «Krayina Mriy» (Land of Dreams) is an annual event, which brings together folk and ethno rock musicians, craftsmen and applied art artists. Cossack au-thentic songs and games, kobza and sopilka (national instruments) tender sounds, blues and ethno hard rock are fascinating numerous public at the several stages erected at the venue. The very special atmosphere of the festival is always enhanced by craftsmen, who show their skills and offer their wares to the eager and festively dressed mostly young crowds among whom there are many wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes.Come to Lviv and join us! Ukraine is one of the world leaders when it comes to celebrating.

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The 2nd «LvivKlezFest»Dates: 23-25 July 2010Location: Square behind the City Arsenal (Former Jewish Quarter), Staroyevreyska StreetWeb: www.hesed.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 238 98 61

Klezmer Feast in Lviv («LvivKlezFest») is an international festival of Jewish music, song and dance. It is an attempt to revive the lost musical culture of Jews living in Galicia. Klez Fest is music of the Jewish bands, where mu-sicians had no idea about music notation, but could incredibly precisely reflect beauties of Jewish soul. This genre of music originated in small vil-lages and towns.Within three days of the festival Lviv citizens and guests have the oppor-tunity to experience klezmer music, dances, singing and as well as consort with participants – famous groups, dance bands and family choirs from many cities and countries. Organizers of the Festival promise tons of unforgettable emotions and in-vite everyone to visit «LvivKlezFest».

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Cheese & Wine HolidayDates: 01 August 2010 Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.cheeseandwine.com.ua, www.cultureandtourism.lviv.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Why wine and cheese in Lviv? There exists a documental evidence of vine-growing in Lviv Region already in the 17th century AD. Lviv cli-mate was much warmer at that time so Southern hills of the High Castle, Lychakiv district, Keizerwald hills and Vynnyky suburbs have been covered with vineyards producing more than one hundred barrels of wine annu-ally. Monks and monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church have also had an important influence on the history of the regional wine. Living in a big trade centre, Lviv citizens very well knew and appreciated refined Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian wines as well.What’s the best to be served with good wine? Cheese, of course. Being real gourmands Lviv citizens borrowed traditions of cheese making from the neighbouring countries. So, the words «cheese» and «wine» started to be used together in Lviv in the Middle Ages!Cheese & Wine Holiday is a fantastic opportunity to learn Ukrainian tradi-tions, to taste good wines and cheese in the open air, to visit fairs and folklore concerts, to enjoy animations and different competitions. Lviv awaits real gourmands!

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Festyny Diany (Diana’s Feast)Dates: 07 August 2010 Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street) Web: www.festyndiany.org

The hunting goddess Diana, the patroness of wild animals and wood-lands invites all, who love nature, dogs and hunting to celebrate the International Hunters Day in Lviv.The participants will enjoy the presentation of hunting traditions, hunt-ing trophies and guns display, tasting favourite hunters’ dishes and drinks, and a rare demonstration of the most romantic kind of hunt-ing - falconry.Everyone can learn secrets of hunting at the master classes. Dogs – the faithful friends of the Goddess will compete for the «Diana’s Cup». The forge sound invites everybody to move in the open air!

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The 3rd International Folklore Festival «Etnovyr» («Ethnowhirl»)Dates: 20-24 August 2010 Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street), Rynok (Market) Square, square in front of the Opera HouseWeb: www.etnovyr.org.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

International Folklore festival «Etnovyr», initiated by UNESCO’s Interna-tional Council of Organizations for Folklore Festivals and Folk Art (CIOFF) gathers together groups from Slavonic countries such as Czech Republic, Poland as well as from Macedonia, France (Martinique), Israel (Palestine Autonomy), India, Mexico, Cyprus, etc. in Lviv. Their impressive dancing miniatures combine traditional folklore, old ritual and modern brisk danc-es. Musical traditions are also represented by the unique musical instru-ments. The number and variety of cultures and colours in Lviv streets is unforgettably impressive. Bright recollection about the colourful costumes and artistic performances won’t leave you till the next festival!

www.etnovyr.org.ua

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Independence DayDates: 21-24 August 2010 Location: Centre of the city, city squares, concert hallsWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Independence Day is a special event in Lviv. On the eve of the holiday the city’s pace changes. Everyone awaits the street performances, artis-tic events and the festive concert. Wearing embroidered national shirts on the Independence Day became a tradition among Lviv citizens. Already in the morning the city starts flourishing with the colours of national costumes. The celebrations last for several days during which you can visit Folklore Festival «Ethnow-hirl», International Independent Film Festival «LeoFilm», concerts and the Parade of Embroidery.

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The 5th International Independent Film Festival «KinoLev-2010» Dates: 21-24 August 2010 Location: 18, Valova Street, Bernanden Garden (Museum of Ideas’ yard), Les’ Kurbas theatre, Opera HouseWeb: www.idem.org.uaTel.: +38 (032) 295 69 68

The main criterion of the film selection for the festival is the young film makers’ independent view upon the world problems. Competi-tion programs, presentations and professional meetings, premiers and retrospective shows, exhibitions and cinema school «FilmKio» are in the «KinoLev - 2010» festival programme. Traditional festival themes are « Young Cinema», «World’s idea of Ukraine and Ukrainians», «The Festival of Festivals», «Silent Movie Classics», and «The Best Ukrainian Movie Translation».«LeoFilm – 2010» is dedicated to the 80th jubilee of Federiko Fellini. Fellini’s best films will be for the first time translated into Ukrainian especially for the «KinoLev - 2010» festival.

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Bread DayDates: 22 August 2010Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.dobryjhlib.com.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 245 84 06, 245 84 24

Lviv citizens and guests love to visit the Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life at the time of the Bread Day. The celebra-tion starts with blessings of round loaves of bread in the old church and festive walk around the museum park. The participants have the opportunity to taste and to buy bread baked according to old recipes, to learn old traditions of respect to bread or to join competitions and entertainments.Everybody is cordially invited to participate!

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The 3rd Week of Contemporary ArtDates: 22-29 August 2010 Location: ГArt Gallery «Dzyga», «The Jam Factory» (124, B.Khmelnytskyi Street), central part of the cityWeb: www.dzyga.com.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 244 47 78

«Week of Contemporary Art» lights up the problems of the modern art, demonstrating its ways of development and new artistic language of communication with the society. Different kinds of artistic performanc-es and installations, new media art and experimental electronic music, film shows and discussions, lectures and master classes are on the list of the rich program for specialists and art lovers.

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MediaDepoDates: 22-29 August 2010Location: Public Space of Lviv, Central and Eastern Europe City History Centre (6, Bohomoltsya Street) Web: www.mediadepo.org.ua, www.lvivcenter.orgTel.: +38 (067) 4161962, +38 (032) 275 17 34

MediaDepo is a project that covers contemporary art and digital tech-nologies. Every year it demonstrates the best works of international media festivals – video art and artistic animation, short movies, hybrid interactive media, and experimental electronic music.

www.mediadepo.org.ua

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Brass Band FestivalDates: 28-29 August 2010Location: Rynok (Market) Square, Museum Square (in front of Pototsky’s Palace)Web: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 247 14 70, 235 48 82

Everyone can enjoy listening to the brass music of different epochs and participate in the brass bands parade. Among the participants there are brass orchestras from Lviv and foreign countries. Final concert of the fes-tival annually finishes by the «The Anthem of the United Europe» and the traditional song «Only in Lviv» performed by the joint orchestra.

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The 17th Lviv International Book FairDates: 16-19 September 2010 Location: The Palace of Arts (17, Copernicus Street)Web: www.bookforum.com.uaTel.: +38 (032) 276 41 52

Lviv International Book Fair («Lviv Publisher’s Forum»), the biggest in Ukraine is included into the Frankfurt Calendar of the World Largest International Book Fairs. It is a meeting place for the industry’s experts, be they publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers or authors. Number of public visiting Forum usually strikes the prominent authors - guests of the event. The Publishes’ Forum programme includes: a book fair, the 5th International Literary Festival (15-19.09.2010) and the «Night of poetry and music non-stop» action; business forum, charity and artistic events, new books presentations and meetings with writers. Different art-video shows, artistic exhibitions and rock bands concerts will accompany forum. Forum promotes book and reading. It is the best opportunity for the publishers to present new books and develop their professionalism.

www.bookforum.com.ua

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The 4th City Holiday «Have a Cup of Coffee in Lviv»Dates: 25-26 September 2010Location: Rynok (Market) SquareWeb: www.coffeefest.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 294 96 44

Lviv has always been famous for its coffee. In 1683 Yuriy Kulchytskyi, Cossack from Lviv Region, founded the first coffee-house in Vienna «Hof zur Blauen Flasche», which was one of the few at that time in Europe. Who knows, maybe owing to Yuriy Kulchytskyi, Lviv became known as the coffee capital of Galicia.City Coffee Festival promotes Lviv coffee culture since 2007. Everyone can take a coffee tour of Lviv and taste «festival» coffee in the numer-ous houses that day. All cafes use their exclusive recipes and high qual-ity coffee to create a real holiday of delight for the customers. Fragrant coffee and meeting people are two indispensable elements of the Cof-fee Festival in Lviv. The top event of the festival is Coffee King’s and Queen’s tour round Lviv coffee-houses with the aim to choose a winner of the festival – the best Lviv café of the year. All the guests are invited to the coffee and cof-fee plate’s fair, historical presentations of the coffee drinking traditions, retro and jazz music concerts. Welcome to Lviv! We’ll find a special cof-fee and a cosy café to delight everyone!

www.coffeefest.lviv.ua

The 16th International Avant-Garde Music Festival «Contrasts»Dates: 25 September - 5 October 2010 Location: Lviv Philharmonic Society Building (7, Tchaikovsky Street)Web: www.philharmonia.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 272 10 42 (box office), 272 67 25, +38 (097) 700 83 58 (marketing department)

International Avant-Garde Music Festival «Contrasts» was founded in 1995. Every year the number of the well known participants grows, thus attract-ing more and more public and journalists’ attention.The idea of the festival is to represent the variety of musical forms, styles, genres and interpretations emphasizing special, often contrast character of a new music. 42

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«Vereteno» («Spindel») Authentic Art festivalDates: 26 September 2010Location: Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Web: www.skansen.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 243 78 23, 247 03 81

«Vereteno» festival is gathering authentic groups from all regions of the Western Ukraine. They represent traditional folk art: very old songs, folk trio musicians’ performances, ritual ceremonies which recall the ancestors’ lifestyle.Classes of weaving, stove decorating and reeled doll making are very popular among children. Everyone who loves dancing is invited to the ancient authentic dance lessons. Come to discover immortal authentic art and traditions!

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«Golden Lion» International Theatre FestivalDates: 01-10 October 2010Location: Lviv theatres, central part of the cityWeb: www.voskresinnia.eu, www.golden-lion.com.ua Tel.: +38 (032) 261 63 10, 297 53 96

«Golden Lion» Theatre Festival is very popular not only in Lviv, but in the whole Eastern Europe. Founded in 1992, it is not only a famous street theatres show and presentation of the European traditions, but the most prestigious theatre forum in Ukraine. Every year Lviv turns into a huge theatre stage for the popular performances, premiers and experimental works of the young directors. More than 25 thousand actors from all over the world had already taken part in the festival. All performances are presented in the original languages.Street parades of the moving on the stilts actors and impressive fire show traditionally open the festival.»Golden Lion» Theatre Festival is a member of such organizations as Informal European Theatre Meetings (IETM) and International Festivals and Event Association (IFEA).

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The 8th Festival of the Ancient MusicDates: 01-10 October 2010Location: Lviv Organ and Chamber Music Hall (8, S.Bandera Street), St. Lazarus Church – School of Singing «Dudaryk» (17, Copernicus Street), Italian Courtyard of the Kornyakt’s House (6, Rynok Square)Web: www.earlymusicfest.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 221 05 35

This festival is the only professional music event in Ukraine of its kind. It offers the audience vocal, instrumental, church, secular and op-era music of different European countries. Musicians from Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands. Chile, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine have been taking part in these festivals.This year the festival has been named «Lviv and Habsburg’s Musical Heritage». You will listen to the music of different countries and peo-ples which belonged to the Habsburg’s State since the Middle Ages up to the XXth. century.

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The 4th Blacksmith Art Festival «Zaliznyy Lev» («The Iron Lion»)Dates: 15-17 October 2010Location: Arsenalna SquareWeb: www.zaliznyjlev.org.uaTel.: +38 (067) 735 76 84

«Zaliznyy Lev» Blacksmith Art Festival gathers masters from the whole Ukraine in Lviv. Using forge, hammer and sledge hammer they demon-strate the basics of blacksmith’s work as it looked hundreds of years ago. Blacksmiths produce real masterpieces of the metal sculpture and deco-rations to the guests’ order. Fire, metal and ringing hammer knocks on the medieval place create a magic atmosphere of the past times.

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The 2nd Tourist Conference «Win with Lion!»Dates: 15-17 November 2010 Location: Pototski’s Palace, 15, Copernicus StreetWeb: www.congress.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 297 57 53

«Win with Lion» International Tourist conference will be held in Lviv for the second time. Ukrainian and foreign travel business experts from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Great Britain took part in the first con-ference. Among the participants of the event there were specialists of the travel, restaurant and hotel industries, educational institutions and museums. Potential tourist products have been being discussed at the presentations and round-table meetings. Lviv’s entry into European Cities Marketing Association was one of the main themes of the conference. Conferences of such level are very important for the development of co-operation in the tourist business. The second Lviv tourist conference is going to open Lviv to the new tourist markets and foreign partners.

www.congress.lviv.ua

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The 6th Festival «Drabyna» («The Ladder»)Dates: 25-28 November 2010Location: Lviv theatresWeb: www.drabyna.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 244 58 55, +38 (097) 90 53931

«Drabyna» is an International festival of the experimental, alternative, in-dependent European theatre. The main task of the festival is a discovery of new theatre forms. Contemporary drama is a special theme of discus-sion at the festival. That is why its programme includes: literary theatre readings «The Fire Ladder», drama works contest «Drama on the Lad-der», art projects «The Photo play» and «Video stage», master classes, as well as new plays readings and professional discussions. The motto of the festival is «New generation. Time. Space. Own vision».Experience the best in international contemporary drama!Intellectuals and modern theatre lovers are invited.

www.drabyna.lviv.ua

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The 10th International festival «Jazz Bez»Dates: 03-12 December 2010 Location: Lviv clubs and concert hallsWeb: www.dzyga.com.uaTel.: +38 (032) 244 47 78, +38 (095) 260 03 27

Lviv «Jazz Bez» Festival is among the biggest in Europe. The festival opens new horizons and unites music lovers of many countries every year. The program of the festival combines both big stage performances and club concerts. Organizers’ vision encompasses a wide spectrum of jazz, blues, world, creative, and improvised music, including evolving forms of jazz and the technologies and media that influence jazz as an art form. Festival’s mission is to not only increase the appreciation of the music, but to strengthen the arts community by developing special projects, artistic exchanges, partnerships, educational initiatives, com-munity programs, and collaborations that further the art.The10th Jubilee «Jazz Bez» is expected to be really amazing. It will pro-vide the opportunity for the Ukrainian ‘home-grown’ artists to collabo-rate with the best in the world.Come and enjoy the fantastic festival that transforms Lviv into a centre for the creation and exchange of sounds and ideas between the local, national and international music community every year!

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St. Nicolas’s Day Dates: 19 December 2010 Location: Square in front of the Opera House, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora), Lviv theatres and clubsWeb: www.cultureandtourism.lviv.uaTel.: +38 (032) 235 48 82

Traditional St. Nicolas’s Day is one of the most popular holidays in Lviv. It is a beginning of the New Year and Christmas Eve celebrations that start with the ceremony of placement a New Year tree in front of the Opera House and switching on street Christmas lights. That is a favourite holiday of the little children who believe in miraculous power of St. Nicolas and wait for presents that day. Various performances, Christmas fairs, charity actions and concerts are held both for children and adults.St. Nicolas the Miracle-Worker is waiting for you to bless, to amuse, to make presents and to amaze with miracles in the ancient Ukrainian city of Lviv.

To Patrons and SponsorsAfter a week of hard and routine job everyone dreams about the days off. You can’t conquer a desire to catch at least a minute of joy and entertain-ment, songs and dances, and unforgettable impressions… Lviv City Coun-cil supports traditional festivals and initiates new ones by all means. Lviv Calendar of Events places 50 different festivals to fit any taste.Numerous Ukrainian and European performers are invited to par-ticipate in the festive dances, noisy actions, entertainments, concerts, competitions, and fire shows presented by the theatre groups.Strong information support will accompany all the preparation process as well as the festivals. Local mass media will announce the honorary list of sponsors who help to create a special festive atmosphere in Lviv. We remember all those who supported Lviv’s transformation into the «capital of festivals», who helped the city to join the European culture traditions of celebration and to become attractive both for Ukrainian and foreign tourists.The patronage has always been highly valued in Galicia. So, Lviv City Council appeals to everybody who could help in organization of the fes-tivals, thus helping to preserve old and develop new traditions. Contrib-uting financially, you have the opportunity to become a proud founder of one or more actions.

If you have any offer of cooperation, please contact the Office for Culture and Tourism of the Lviv City Council.1 Rynok Square (office 322) Tel.: +38 (032) 2354882, 2546079 culture.tourism@city-adm.lviv.uaWelcome to Lviv!

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