Lviv in Streets and Churches

Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, just shy of the Polish border, is one of the few lucky cities in the region to have survived both WWII and subsequent Soviet occupation with its historic city center intact (unlike, say, Warsaw, which was reduced to a pile of rubble and had to be completely rebuilt).

In completely unrelated news, my sister Sylviane and I spent the day roaming the streets like the mad photographers that we are, hehe. Here is the first installment:

Comments (5)

SylvianeJuly 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am

I love the chess one!

And that was “death glare day” for me. Hehe. It was a fun day! :)

YM TingJuly 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am

Thank you for showing us Lviv. How do you pronounce Lviv?

Gabriel OpenshawJuly 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am

Easy. It’s pronounced L^#&%.

RonJuly 26th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

I like the photos of the boy obviously not at all impressed with his visit to the church….

YM TingJuly 26th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

~~ rolling my eyes ~~

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