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Lviv (Lvov) has good connections to many countries thanks to the flights of such airlines as: Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, LOT, Wizzair, Turkish airlines, UTair, LOT, Aerosvit, Lviv Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines.
International destinations served by scheduled services include: Warsaw, Vienna, Rome, Naples, Moscow, Munich, Dortmund, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, while charter flights fly seasonally from the likes of Antalya, Split, Naples, Bologna, and Dalaman.
The airport is in the city area, around an hour's walk from the city centre. There's a direct trolleybus from the airport to the city centre, and city bus ("marshrutka") No.95 which runs across main streets of the city including the centre. There are also taxis ready to pick up you and take you anywhere you want. But if you use them – be aware of being overcharged. The price of a journey to the city centre should be around 35-45 UAH, The price to the farthest point of the city should not be more than 80 UAH.
From 12 December 2010 to December 12, 2011 Lviv will have international connections with:
Berlin, Wroclaw, Krakow, Przemysl, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Sofia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Minsk.
Domestic transfers will be available to/from Odessa, Kyiv, Mariupol, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zhitomir, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chop, Uzhgorod, and Kherson.
International train connections are typically more expensive than low-cost flights. So we recommend using trains only for moving across Ukraine.
Lviv has international bus connections with Poland, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, Moldova, Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium.
Buses run to following directions (on the respective days of the week):
Lisboa (2), Madrid via Barcelona (1,3), Malaga via Murcia (3), Sevilla (6), Murcia (2,5), Amsterdam/Breda (3), London/Manchestar (1), Bruxells/Liege, Paris (6), Vien (6), Milan (3), Naples (4,6), Turin (1), Salerno (4), Foggia (2), Genoa (1), Rome (3), Aschafenburg (1,3,7), Koblenz (1), Konstanz (2,6), Pfoorzheim (3), Munster (2, 6), Munchen (4, 6), Rostok (5), Warsaw (daily), Wroclaw (daily except 5), Wroclaw (2, 6), Krakow (daily), Rzeszow (2, 3, 5, 6), Lublin (daily), Przemysl (daily).
If you travel to Lviv by your own car, it will be best for you to follow E40 International Highway (from the western border to Lviv it is M11 Ukrainian Highway, and from Kyiv it is M06).
In all other areas it is usually set to 90 km/h, but we still recommend following the road signs carefully.
International automobile routes run from Lviv to Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Belarus, and other countries. There are 8 border crossing points between Ukraine and the European Union.
In Lviv, there are a large number of companies involved in renting cars of any class, any configuration and price range for every taste and budget. You can rent a car in Lviv, and give it back to an office on the other side of Ukraine, which makes car hire a useful method of crossing the country. Sixt, Avis and Budget all have car hire offices in Lviv.
Parking in central zone costs 3 UAH per hour. Parking machines do not work despite being installed, but parking operators are on almost every street.
Mileage to other venues
• Warsaw – 385 km / 240 miles
• Wroclaw – 620 km / 385 miles
• Poznan – 700 km / 435 miles
• Gdansk – 725 km / 450 miles
• Kharkiv – 1,015 km / 630 miles
• Donetsk – 1,175 km / 730 miles
The Arena Lviv has a capacity of 33,787 seats, and is located around 10km to the south of the city. It will host three group stage matches in Euro 2012. The stadium construction began in November 2008. The Arena Lviv was officially inaugurated with a bombastic show on 29 October 2011. The first ever football game in the new stadium was played between the national teams of Ukraine and Austria on 15 November 2011. The total site area is twenty four hectares, five of which are directly set for the building of the stadium. The stadium fulfills all UEFA requirements, to ensure most a high level of fan's comfort and security.
There are no restricted views, and all seats are covered.
19 kiosks, which are located at the promenade, and seven kiosks at the external perimeter of the stadium, will serve visitors during football matches and other events. There is also a restaurant for 408 guests with a separate entrance to stands. Twenty six sanitary units are placed on the promenade.
Each host city will have a permanent, stationary Fans' Embassy throughout the tournament, as well as mobile Fans' Embassy teams operating in the days around matches played in that city. The mobile teams will be based at strategic points throughout the city (transport hubs, near the fanparks and stadiums, etc) and all Fans' Embassy staff will be on hand to offer advice and assistance to all supporters, either in person or by phone/email.
In each host city the Fans' Embassy will serve as a crucial source of information as well as a meeting point for all visiting supporters. The essence of a Fans' Embassy is to provide fan-specific services - such as ticket availability, public viewing facilities, locally applicable legislation, stadium regulations, match-day arrangements, etc.
However, you will also be able to obtain more general information you would normally find at a tourist office: accommodation, details of local transport timetables and routes, sightseeing opportunities, money exchange, etc.
The staff of the Fan Embassy will generally be drawn out of the local fan scene and will offer visiting supporters detailed and relevant information in their own language, as well as provide swift and simple solutions to any problems that may arise.
Fans' Embassies will be located in easy to reach central areas and will be open daily throughout the tournament. Find out where they are by visiting their dedicated section of the web page and drop by once you arrive in town!
Once the preparations and arrangements from the host cities are finalised we will put all information on public viewing here.
The most comfortable Lviv hotels are located in the city centre. Though, as a cheaper alternative you can try to rent an apartment, which has got most of the usual hotel facilities (only excluding breakfast) but at a lower price.
There are a number of 3, 4 & 5 star hotels:
16, Teatral'na Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 295-95-06, 295-95-00
e-mail: hotel@leopolishotel.com
13, Svobody Ave, Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 272-40-42,272-76-65; fax: +38 (032) 276-90-60
e-mail: grand@ghgroup.com.ua
7th km of Lviv-Kiev Highway,Pustomyty District, Lviv Region,
phone: +38 (032) 235-10-10, +38 (032) 235-10-02
e-mail: info@drevnygrad.com.ua
45, Svobody Ave,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 225-90-00
e-mail: reception@hotel-opera.lviv.ua
1, Mitskevych Sq., Lviv
tel.: +38 (032) 272-59-52
27, Staroevreyska Str.,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 274-68-34, +38 (032) 272-20-24
e-mail: info@vintagehotel.com.ua
6, Mateika Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 297-43-17, 297-43-05
e-mail: reservation@dnister.lviv.ua
Eurohotel
6a, Tershakovtsiv Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 242-40-02
60, Lypynskoho Str.,Lviv
phone/fax: +38 (032) 294-88-88
e-mail: hotelvolter@ukr.net
Hetman
50, VolodymyraVelykoho Str.,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 264-99-81, 230-13-91; fax: +38 (032) 264-84-72
e-mail: hetman@mail.lviv.ua
Lviv
7, Chornovola Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 242-32-70
e-mail: hotel_lviv@svitonline.com
3 Beryndy Str.
phone: (032) 294-96-44
e-mail: booking@oldcityhostel.lviv.ua
3/5 Rus'ka Str.,
phone: (032) 225-75-41
e-mail: hostelinlviv@gmail.com
5 Rynok Sq.
phone: (032) 254-61-69
e-mail: cshostel@gmail.com
LeoCity Hostel
15, Konopnyts'koi Str.
phone: (032) 276-07-13
e-mail: hostel.leocity@gmail.com
Torist Information Center Lviv website.
More information to be found on the Euro 2012 Lviv website.
Today Lviv has hundreds of restaurants, bars, night clubs, and hotels serving various cuisines and offering outstanding comfort and style. Whether you are looking for traditional Ukrainian restaurants or restaurants serving French or Italian dishes, Lviv has to offer everything that your body and soul desire.
The restaurants of Lviv are mostly cosy, old-fashioned, traditional Ukrainian places serving delicious belly-filling food. Hearty soups and rich, heavy dishes are their specialties. These restaurants are usually not "gourmet", but they have a comforting and cared-for atmosphere that makes you feel at home. You don't need a lot of money to eat in Lviv; most dishes are under €3.
Soups and Breads
"Borshch" is a typical Ukrainian soup made from beets. "Kapusniak" is a distinctive sourkraut soup. While the local thick, creamy mushroom soup is called "Hrybivka". All of these soups use traditional Ukrainian ingredients that are also used in a variety of other dishes. In Lviv braided breads are popular. Sometimes they are made with sweetened dough, and sometimes they have a mix of dried fruits in them. Usually these breads have some sort of symbolism in their design or shape and they are generally made during certain holidays or special events or ceremonies.
Main Dishes
"Varenyky" is a doughy pastry, which is typically filled with either potato or sauerkraut or cottage cheese, but the choice of fillings is theoretically endless! Deruny is a meal of potato pancakes smothered in sour cream. Don't forget to try the famous cabbage rolls filled with hamburger meat and rice called "Holubtsi".
Drinks
As in most countries, wine and beer are very popular. The main beer company in Lviv is Lvivske. Vodka, called "Horilka" here, is very common as well. Another drink, "meadivka", made from honey, water, and yeast was important historically in Ukraine and is now regaining its former popularity.
Beer
"Those who drink Lviv beer will live a hundred years" citizens of Lviv say about their favorite beverage. Lots of legends and fables are composed about beer in Lviv. Even an annual festival is dedicated to beer. Here folk, rock and pop music, games and dances are combined with tasting of different sorts of beer.
The first and the only beer museum was established in Lviv. Here you can find exhibitions of old beer bottles and mugs from different European countries, special beer barrels, books with old recipes.
Robert Dom's Beer House is a rather new Lviv tavern on former Klepariv area. Here you can also enjoy the old-time atmosphere of Lviv breweries, fresh Lvivske beer, straight from the brewery taps, and original and tasty home-made meals. Somewhere in the subterranean vaults of the Ploshcha Rynok (Market Square), you can come upon a basement tavern, designed to look like a kryyivka (underground bunker). Kryyivkas were used by partisan soldiers enlisted in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. But, you need to pronounce the password if you want to get in. Military accoutrements and portraits of soldiers decorate the walls, food is served in original tin army pans – an atmosphere that will plunge you into those days when Ukrainian insurgents lived underground and fought against the invaders of their country.
Different sorts of beer are brewed in Kumpel restaurant. Moreover, the beer is not filtered so that you can enjoy the tasty flavour of a real drink.
Galician Jewish Restaurant-Tavern Pid Zolotoyu Rozoyu (Beneath the Golden Rose) is perhaps the only tavern in Ukraine where there are no listed prices. Here, you can actually haggle over your final bill.
Lviv and coffee are two notions that have become one. It's now almost impossible to imagine the city's old narrow streets without the seductive tart aroma that flies out of small windows of cozy cafés. In the summer Lviv citizens savor coffee sitting outside, in winter in cozy warm cafés, sluggishly talking about latest news of the city. Every year Lviv entertains all coffee lovers with "Have a Cup of Coffee in Lviv" festival, where everyone can taste all types of the beverage, brewed in a special Lviv way, according to traditional recipes.
Our local researchers have recommended the following nightlife and entertainment options in and around Lviv:
"Millenium" (Chornovola avenue, 2) – disco, pool.
"Zanzibar" (Lypynskoho street, 36) – disco, pool
"Mi100" (Naukova street, 7) – pub, striptease, bowling.
"Laim"(Pasichna street, 22) – disco
"Fenomen" (Zelena street, 186) – disco
"Metro"(Petrushevycha square, 3) – disco
"Rafinad People" (Rudanskoho street, 1) – disco
"Shokolad"(Petrushevycha square, 2) – disco
"Picasso" (Zelena street, 88) – disco
"Le Roy" (Heroyiv UPA str., 80) – disco, pool
"Pliazh" – aquapark
"King Cross Leopolis" – skates, cinema, bowling. Outside city – nearby stadium.
Korzo Pub (Brativ rohatyntsiv, 10)
Irish pub Dublin (Kryva lypa square)
Pub-restaurant (Hvadriyska street, 4)
Pub-retaurant Mons-Pius (Lesi Ukrayinky street, 14)
4 friends Whiskey-Pub (Dudayeva street, 2)
Robert Doms' Pub (Kleparivska street, 18).
A list of good cafes to grab a nice coffee can be found here.
Tipping
The culture of tipping is developing slowly and there are no general rules. Usually it is 10% from your bill. If you are a foreigner, you might be expected to leave more. Sometimes 5% - 10% tips for a service charge are already included into your bill, which is mentioned in the menu list.
Every corner of global cuisine is represented (French, Greek, Italian, Viennese, Jewish, Asian, American, Latin, etc.), and local Ukrainian and Halytska (Galician) restaurants are among the finest in Ukraine. In the historic centre, you're never more than a couple steps away from your next dining experience, and the standard of service is excellent.
More detail can be found at LvivTravel.
Fast food options:
"Puzata khata" (Sichovykh striltsiv str., 12),
"Garbuz" (I.Franka str., 15),
McDonalds (Svobody avenue, 35, T.Shevchenko avenue, 7, V.Velykoho str, 24, Chornovola avenue, 12),
"Tarko" (Shpytalna str., 1, 5-th floor of MAGNUS trade centre),
"Cheburechna khata" (S. Bandery str., 45),
Hit-Café (Kryva Lypa square, Kyivska str., 7, Dudayeva str., 7).
Local kepab-houses can be found throughout the city centre.
The main club of the city is FC Karpaty Lviv (founded in 1963). The high lights in their history include being the USSR Cup Winner in 1969, and their highest league position was a 3rd place in the Ukrainian league in 1998. In 2010 and 2011 the team finished the season on 5th place, and participated in the Europa League. In 2010 FC Karpaty reached the group stages beating Galatasaray in qualification on away goals.
Some of following footballers played in Karpaty:
Oleh Luzhnyy (former defender of Dynamo Kyiv, Arsenal London),
Andriy Husin (former midfielder of Dynamo Kyiv),
Stepan Yurchyshyn (former USSR national team),
Oleksandr Yevtushok (former defender of Coventry),
Andriy Polunin (former midfielder of 1. FC Nürnberg).
During the late 90s the duo of forwards Palianytsia and Hetsko scored more goals than the leading tandem of Dynamo Kyiv, Shevchenko and Rebrov.
The average attendance of matches is between 7,000 and 10,000 people, while the following at away games is usually below 100 people because of the distances involved. Only away matches in Kyiv and Lutsk (the closest cities, respectively 550 km and 150 km away) are visited by 500-1000 supporters.
The entire atmosphere is born under the stadium screen, in sections 15-16 by over 2500 people. The support is colourful, with lots of flags and banners. The anthem of the club is the song "When the saints go marching in", and translation reads "Here we go, and we lead our FC with us right to the victory. We know the time will come, when we will win gold and the cup will be in Lviv again. Let's take the green and white flag up, the scarfs are rolling everywhere, because "Karpaty" have won."
The most popular song nowadays is "Go ahead Karpaty, go ahead in battle, your fans are with you forever! And your colours, green and white, forever in our heart!". Lviv fans use pyrotechnics very often, even though it is officially forbidden.
Lviv was recognised as the Cultural Capital Of Ukraine 2009. The city produces the majority of new art and modern culture trends in the country, as well as the ideas of various interesting entertainment. It's no wonder that 50 different festivals are listed on the Lviv Calendar of Events. Whether you visit Lviv in the spring, summer, autumn or winter you will feel the atmosphere of a holiday!
If anywhere sums up Lviv it is the beautiful Rynok Square (Market Square), which has been the centre of political, public, cultural, and commercial life of the city for 500 years. It is surrounded by fifty unique architectural monuments dating back to the 16-20th centuries.
There are ten churches within a 200m radius of Rynok Square (and over 80 in the city as a whole). All of them are reflecting the multicultural and multinational nature of Lviv, which has always served as a bridge between Ukraine and Europe.
The City Hall. The current building of the Lviv City Hall was constructed in the Viennese Classicism style in the middle of the 19th century. You can climb 350 wooden stairs and have the pleasure of viewing all the beauty that the city affords from the gallery of the City Hall tower. The City Council of Lviv resides in the building; this, however, does not prevent tourists from walking along its corridors and climbing to its highest point of 65 metres.
The Lviv Opera House, situated on the main city avenue, is an architectural gem of Lviv, built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1901, and is one of the most beautiful theatres in Europe. Designed by architect Zygmunt Gorgolewski, the Grand Theatre in Lviv has been compared to the Paris and Vienna opera houses.
Potocki Palace is a majestic edifice in French Neorenaissance style of late 19th century. Behind the fence with ornamental metal gate you'll see a majestic yet refined structure. The imposing palace is decorated with reliefs, mouldings, murals and stained-glass windows. The Palace of Potockis is a bright example of mature historicism architecture and one of the most interesting architectural landmarks of Lviv.
The Dominican Church in Lviv is located in the city's Old Town, East of the Rynok Square. It was originally built as the Roman Catholic church of Corpus Christi, and today serves as the Greek Catholic church of the Holy Eucharist. The church resembles the church of St. Charles Borromeus in Vienna. It's built on the plan of the Greek Cross inscribed in an ellipsoid and topped with a monumental dome.
Shevchenko avenue is one of the most beautiful central streets; it almost fully preserves the European architectural spirit of the beginning of the 20th century.
The Armenian community, one of the oldest in Lviv, has formed over a period of many years a centre for its national life in Lviv. Its unique architecture portrays the original spirit of this Eastern Christian culture. The Armenian Cathedral (14th-15th centuries) is a unique monument of Eastern culture in Europe. It is a successful architectural combination of various styles: the typical Armenian sanctuary, the Romanesque-Gothic style of Western Europe, and the traditional Ukrainian Halychyna type. Here the remains of an ancient Armenian cemetery have been preserved: gravestones, the oldest one being 600 years old, have been transferred from cemeteries of other Armenian churches and monasteries to Lviv. Pope John Paul II prayed in the Lviv Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the 25th of June 2001.
The Kornyakt Palace (6 Rynok Square) represents an extremely valuable Renaissance monument dating to 1580; it was the palace of the wealthiest citizen in the whole history of Lviv - the merchant Constantine Kornyakt. Later, it was a Royal Mansion: the property and residence of Polish King Jan Sobieski.
High Castle Park – an old shady park on the hill (413 m) overlooking the city, displays the ruins of an ancient castle, an observation deck and offers breathtaking views.
Lviv Arsenal is the oldest arsenal building in Ukraine. It was constructed close to the high wall of the city fortifications in 1555 with large stone blocks. Here the cannons were casted. The city executioner was living in the tower joined to the arsenal, interrogations and tortures took place here too. Since 1981 there is Museum of Weapons in the Arsenal Building – the only museum like this in Ukraine.
There is also a unique museum complex in Lviv. It is the Pharmacy Museum that was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square. The drugstore was established in 1735 by Wilhelm Natorp, a military pharmacist. It was called "Under the Black Eagle". The museum consists of 16 rooms which exhibit antique pharmaceutical appliances, prescriptions, medicines, dishes, a library of pharmacy-related books, and even a reconstructed alchemy workshop.
The Museum of folk architecture and life "Shevchenkivskyy grove" is an open-air museum. You can see the western Ukrainians' life of the 18th and 19th centuries in this ethno-park. The exposition consists of 124 architectural monuments which form 54 homesteads in the territory of 60 hectares. The oldest exhibit is a peasant house of 1749. You can see also smithy, school, sawmill, cloth factory, water- and windmills. Every year there are several ethno-festival held here.
The city logo is the image of five coloruful towers: Armenian cathedral Bell, tower of Kornyakta, theTown Hall, the Latin cathedral Tower, and the Bernardino monastery Bell, with the slogan "Lviv open to the world" underneath.
Saturday 9 June 2012, 20.45CET
#4: Germany vs Portugal
Wednesday 13 June 2012, 18.00CET
#11: Denmark vs Portugal
Sunday 17 June 2012, 20.45CET
#20: Denmark vs Germany
Once the arrangements from UEFA are finalised, we will put all specific matchday information here, including:
UEFA ticketing points
Match day transport (park and ride, etc)
EURO street signage
Cordons/checks, etc
To leave a social legacy in Poland and Ukraine UEFA supports, besides RESPECT Fan Culture – Fans' Embassies, three further programmes that aim on social change.
50% of all European disabled people have never participated in leisure or sport activities. EURO 2012 provides an opportunity to improve access to football and for the removal of physical, sensory and intellectual barriers in public places in the region. It is recognised that supporting and playing football is an integral and vital part of European culture and tradition. Football is increasingly diverse; this naturally includes many more disabled people. The Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE) has formed a disability alliance in the region to help to deliver the awareness project, Respect Inclusion – Football with No Limits.
EURO 2012 offers a unique chance to promote a positive message of diversity and inclusion. The programme will be delivered on behalf of FARE by the long established regional partner, the 'Never Again' Association. Civil society organisations, and ethnic minorities in particular, have been motivated to engage with the preparations. Important stakeholders have signed up to the anti-discrimination agenda. The FARE activities concentrate on minimizing the risk of racist incidents during the tournament as well as promotion of anti-discrimination measures.
RESPECT your Health - Euroschools 2012 is the official community health education programme of the UEFA EURO 2012. This one-year project aims to promote a healthy lifestyle, with a focus on smoking prevention, responsible alcohol consumption, healthy diet and physical activity among young people and their families in Poland and Ukraine. Through a train the trainers approach, local institutions and NGOs in the eight UEFA EURO 2012 host cities will be empowered to activate their communities and promote good health. A guide will help coaches, teachers, social workers and Orlik animators use the power of football and sport to engage communities, increase health literacy levels, and establish a common feeling of ownership for public (sport) grounds.
UEFA EURO 2012 will be tobacco-free. A complete ban on the use, sale or promotion of tobacco will be in force in both indoor and outdoor areas of all match venues. Put into place to protect the health, safety and comfort of all fans and other tournament participants, the tobacco ban complements other activities such as Respect your Health that use the force of football to promote social issues.
EURO tournaments bring people together on and off the pitch. All sorts of encounters are made, some closer than others. The fun may know no bounds, but there are of course rules. Encounters between people from all over Europe can be unforgettable, as long as they are respectful, good humoured and a danger to no one. Show HIV and AIDS the red card. The HIV virus doesn't play fair, so you have to. Unforgettable encounters should leave no lasting damage. When you think fun and passion, think health too: condoms protect!
Lviv (Lvov) has good connections to many countries thanks to the flights of such airlines as: Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, LOT, Wizzair, Turkish airlines, UTair, LOT, Aerosvit, Lviv Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines.
International destinations served by scheduled services include: Warsaw, Vienna, Rome, Naples, Moscow, Munich, Dortmund, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, while charter flights fly seasonally from the likes of Antalya, Split, Naples, Bologna, and Dalaman.
The airport is in the city area, around an hour's walk from the city centre. There's a direct trolleybus from the airport to the city centre, and city bus ("marshrutka") No.95 which runs across main streets of the city including the centre. There are also taxis ready to pick up you and take you anywhere you want. But if you use them – be aware of being overcharged. The price of a journey to the city centre should be around 35-45 UAH, The price to the farthest point of the city should not be more than 80 UAH.
From 12 December 2010 to December 12, 2011 Lviv will have international connections with:
Berlin, Wroclaw, Krakow, Przemysl, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Sofia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Minsk.
Domestic transfers will be available to/from Odessa, Kyiv, Mariupol, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zhitomir, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chop, Uzhgorod, and Kherson.
International train connections are typically more expensive than low-cost flights. So we recommend using trains only for moving across Ukraine.
Lviv has international bus connections with Poland, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, Moldova, Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium.
Buses run to following directions (on the respective days of the week):
Lisboa (2), Madrid via Barcelona (1,3), Malaga via Murcia (3), Sevilla (6), Murcia (2,5), Amsterdam/Breda (3), London/Manchestar (1), Bruxells/Liege, Paris (6), Vien (6), Milan (3), Naples (4,6), Turin (1), Salerno (4), Foggia (2), Genoa (1), Rome (3), Aschafenburg (1,3,7), Koblenz (1), Konstanz (2,6), Pfoorzheim (3), Munster (2, 6), Munchen (4, 6), Rostok (5), Warsaw (daily), Wroclaw (daily except 5), Wroclaw (2, 6), Krakow (daily), Rzeszow (2, 3, 5, 6), Lublin (daily), Przemysl (daily).
If you travel to Lviv by your own car, it will be best for you to follow E40 International Highway (from the western border to Lviv it is M11 Ukrainian Highway, and from Kyiv it is M06).
In all other areas it is usually set to 90 km/h, but we still recommend following the road signs carefully.
International automobile routes run from Lviv to Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Belarus, and other countries. There are 8 border crossing points between Ukraine and the European Union.
In Lviv, there are a large number of companies involved in renting cars of any class, any configuration and price range for every taste and budget. You can rent a car in Lviv, and give it back to an office on the other side of Ukraine, which makes car hire a useful method of crossing the country. Sixt, Avis and Budget all have car hire offices in Lviv.
Parking in central zone costs 3 UAH per hour. Parking machines do not work despite being installed, but parking operators are on almost every street.
Mileage to other venues
• Warsaw – 385 km / 240 miles
• Wroclaw – 620 km / 385 miles
• Poznan – 700 km / 435 miles
• Gdansk – 725 km / 450 miles
• Kharkiv – 1,015 km / 630 miles
• Donetsk – 1,175 km / 730 miles
The Arena Lviv has a capacity of 33,787 seats, and is located around 10km to the south of the city. It will host three group stage matches in Euro 2012. The stadium construction began in November 2008. The Arena Lviv was officially inaugurated with a bombastic show on 29 October 2011. The first ever football game in the new stadium was played between the national teams of Ukraine and Austria on 15 November 2011. The total site area is twenty four hectares, five of which are directly set for the building of the stadium. The stadium fulfills all UEFA requirements, to ensure most a high level of fan's comfort and security.
There are no restricted views, and all seats are covered.
19 kiosks, which are located at the promenade, and seven kiosks at the external perimeter of the stadium, will serve visitors during football matches and other events. There is also a restaurant for 408 guests with a separate entrance to stands. Twenty six sanitary units are placed on the promenade.
Each host city will have a permanent, stationary Fans' Embassy throughout the tournament, as well as mobile Fans' Embassy teams operating in the days around matches played in that city. The mobile teams will be based at strategic points throughout the city (transport hubs, near the fanparks and stadiums, etc) and all Fans' Embassy staff will be on hand to offer advice and assistance to all supporters, either in person or by phone/email.
In each host city the Fans' Embassy will serve as a crucial source of information as well as a meeting point for all visiting supporters. The essence of a Fans' Embassy is to provide fan-specific services - such as ticket availability, public viewing facilities, locally applicable legislation, stadium regulations, match-day arrangements, etc.
However, you will also be able to obtain more general information you would normally find at a tourist office: accommodation, details of local transport timetables and routes, sightseeing opportunities, money exchange, etc.
The staff of the Fan Embassy will generally be drawn out of the local fan scene and will offer visiting supporters detailed and relevant information in their own language, as well as provide swift and simple solutions to any problems that may arise.
Fans' Embassies will be located in easy to reach central areas and will be open daily throughout the tournament. Find out where they are by visiting their dedicated section of the web page and drop by once you arrive in town!
Once the preparations and arrangements from the host cities are finalised we will put all information on public viewing here.
The most comfortable Lviv hotels are located in the city centre. Though, as a cheaper alternative you can try to rent an apartment, which has got most of the usual hotel facilities (only excluding breakfast) but at a lower price.
There are a number of 3, 4 & 5 star hotels:
16, Teatral'na Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 295-95-06, 295-95-00
e-mail: hotel@leopolishotel.com
13, Svobody Ave, Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 272-40-42,272-76-65; fax: +38 (032) 276-90-60
e-mail: grand@ghgroup.com.ua
7th km of Lviv-Kiev Highway,Pustomyty District, Lviv Region,
phone: +38 (032) 235-10-10, +38 (032) 235-10-02
e-mail: info@drevnygrad.com.ua
45, Svobody Ave,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 225-90-00
e-mail: reception@hotel-opera.lviv.ua
1, Mitskevych Sq., Lviv
tel.: +38 (032) 272-59-52
27, Staroevreyska Str.,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 274-68-34, +38 (032) 272-20-24
e-mail: info@vintagehotel.com.ua
6, Mateika Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 297-43-17, 297-43-05
e-mail: reservation@dnister.lviv.ua
Eurohotel
6a, Tershakovtsiv Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 242-40-02
60, Lypynskoho Str.,Lviv
phone/fax: +38 (032) 294-88-88
e-mail: hotelvolter@ukr.net
Hetman
50, VolodymyraVelykoho Str.,Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 264-99-81, 230-13-91; fax: +38 (032) 264-84-72
e-mail: hetman@mail.lviv.ua
Lviv
7, Chornovola Str., Lviv
phone: +38 (032) 242-32-70
e-mail: hotel_lviv@svitonline.com
3 Beryndy Str.
phone: (032) 294-96-44
e-mail: booking@oldcityhostel.lviv.ua
3/5 Rus'ka Str.,
phone: (032) 225-75-41
e-mail: hostelinlviv@gmail.com
5 Rynok Sq.
phone: (032) 254-61-69
e-mail: cshostel@gmail.com
LeoCity Hostel
15, Konopnyts'koi Str.
phone: (032) 276-07-13
e-mail: hostel.leocity@gmail.com
Torist Information Center Lviv website.
More information to be found on the Euro 2012 Lviv website.
Today Lviv has hundreds of restaurants, bars, night clubs, and hotels serving various cuisines and offering outstanding comfort and style. Whether you are looking for traditional Ukrainian restaurants or restaurants serving French or Italian dishes, Lviv has to offer everything that your body and soul desire.
The restaurants of Lviv are mostly cosy, old-fashioned, traditional Ukrainian places serving delicious belly-filling food. Hearty soups and rich, heavy dishes are their specialties. These restaurants are usually not "gourmet", but they have a comforting and cared-for atmosphere that makes you feel at home. You don't need a lot of money to eat in Lviv; most dishes are under €3.
Soups and Breads
"Borshch" is a typical Ukrainian soup made from beets. "Kapusniak" is a distinctive sourkraut soup. While the local thick, creamy mushroom soup is called "Hrybivka". All of these soups use traditional Ukrainian ingredients that are also used in a variety of other dishes. In Lviv braided breads are popular. Sometimes they are made with sweetened dough, and sometimes they have a mix of dried fruits in them. Usually these breads have some sort of symbolism in their design or shape and they are generally made during certain holidays or special events or ceremonies.
Main Dishes
"Varenyky" is a doughy pastry, which is typically filled with either potato or sauerkraut or cottage cheese, but the choice of fillings is theoretically endless! Deruny is a meal of potato pancakes smothered in sour cream. Don't forget to try the famous cabbage rolls filled with hamburger meat and rice called "Holubtsi".
Drinks
As in most countries, wine and beer are very popular. The main beer company in Lviv is Lvivske. Vodka, called "Horilka" here, is very common as well. Another drink, "meadivka", made from honey, water, and yeast was important historically in Ukraine and is now regaining its former popularity.
Beer
"Those who drink Lviv beer will live a hundred years" citizens of Lviv say about their favorite beverage. Lots of legends and fables are composed about beer in Lviv. Even an annual festival is dedicated to beer. Here folk, rock and pop music, games and dances are combined with tasting of different sorts of beer.
The first and the only beer museum was established in Lviv. Here you can find exhibitions of old beer bottles and mugs from different European countries, special beer barrels, books with old recipes.
Robert Dom's Beer House is a rather new Lviv tavern on former Klepariv area. Here you can also enjoy the old-time atmosphere of Lviv breweries, fresh Lvivske beer, straight from the brewery taps, and original and tasty home-made meals. Somewhere in the subterranean vaults of the Ploshcha Rynok (Market Square), you can come upon a basement tavern, designed to look like a kryyivka (underground bunker). Kryyivkas were used by partisan soldiers enlisted in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. But, you need to pronounce the password if you want to get in. Military accoutrements and portraits of soldiers decorate the walls, food is served in original tin army pans – an atmosphere that will plunge you into those days when Ukrainian insurgents lived underground and fought against the invaders of their country.
Different sorts of beer are brewed in Kumpel restaurant. Moreover, the beer is not filtered so that you can enjoy the tasty flavour of a real drink.
Galician Jewish Restaurant-Tavern Pid Zolotoyu Rozoyu (Beneath the Golden Rose) is perhaps the only tavern in Ukraine where there are no listed prices. Here, you can actually haggle over your final bill.
Lviv and coffee are two notions that have become one. It's now almost impossible to imagine the city's old narrow streets without the seductive tart aroma that flies out of small windows of cozy cafés. In the summer Lviv citizens savor coffee sitting outside, in winter in cozy warm cafés, sluggishly talking about latest news of the city. Every year Lviv entertains all coffee lovers with "Have a Cup of Coffee in Lviv" festival, where everyone can taste all types of the beverage, brewed in a special Lviv way, according to traditional recipes.
Our local researchers have recommended the following nightlife and entertainment options in and around Lviv:
"Millenium" (Chornovola avenue, 2) – disco, pool.
"Zanzibar" (Lypynskoho street, 36) – disco, pool
"Mi100" (Naukova street, 7) – pub, striptease, bowling.
"Laim"(Pasichna street, 22) – disco
"Fenomen" (Zelena street, 186) – disco
"Metro"(Petrushevycha square, 3) – disco
"Rafinad People" (Rudanskoho street, 1) – disco
"Shokolad"(Petrushevycha square, 2) – disco
"Picasso" (Zelena street, 88) – disco
"Le Roy" (Heroyiv UPA str., 80) – disco, pool
"Pliazh" – aquapark
"King Cross Leopolis" – skates, cinema, bowling. Outside city – nearby stadium.
Korzo Pub (Brativ rohatyntsiv, 10)
Irish pub Dublin (Kryva lypa square)
Pub-restaurant (Hvadriyska street, 4)
Pub-retaurant Mons-Pius (Lesi Ukrayinky street, 14)
4 friends Whiskey-Pub (Dudayeva street, 2)
Robert Doms' Pub (Kleparivska street, 18).
A list of good cafes to grab a nice coffee can be found here.
Tipping
The culture of tipping is developing slowly and there are no general rules. Usually it is 10% from your bill. If you are a foreigner, you might be expected to leave more. Sometimes 5% - 10% tips for a service charge are already included into your bill, which is mentioned in the menu list.
Every corner of global cuisine is represented (French, Greek, Italian, Viennese, Jewish, Asian, American, Latin, etc.), and local Ukrainian and Halytska (Galician) restaurants are among the finest in Ukraine. In the historic centre, you're never more than a couple steps away from your next dining experience, and the standard of service is excellent.
More detail can be found at LvivTravel.
Fast food options:
"Puzata khata" (Sichovykh striltsiv str., 12),
"Garbuz" (I.Franka str., 15),
McDonalds (Svobody avenue, 35, T.Shevchenko avenue, 7, V.Velykoho str, 24, Chornovola avenue, 12),
"Tarko" (Shpytalna str., 1, 5-th floor of MAGNUS trade centre),
"Cheburechna khata" (S. Bandery str., 45),
Hit-Café (Kryva Lypa square, Kyivska str., 7, Dudayeva str., 7).
Local kepab-houses can be found throughout the city centre.
The main club of the city is FC Karpaty Lviv (founded in 1963). The high lights in their history include being the USSR Cup Winner in 1969, and their highest league position was a 3rd place in the Ukrainian league in 1998. In 2010 and 2011 the team finished the season on 5th place, and participated in the Europa League. In 2010 FC Karpaty reached the group stages beating Galatasaray in qualification on away goals.
Some of following footballers played in Karpaty:
Oleh Luzhnyy (former defender of Dynamo Kyiv, Arsenal London),
Andriy Husin (former midfielder of Dynamo Kyiv),
Stepan Yurchyshyn (former USSR national team),
Oleksandr Yevtushok (former defender of Coventry),
Andriy Polunin (former midfielder of 1. FC Nürnberg).
During the late 90s the duo of forwards Palianytsia and Hetsko scored more goals than the leading tandem of Dynamo Kyiv, Shevchenko and Rebrov.
The average attendance of matches is between 7,000 and 10,000 people, while the following at away games is usually below 100 people because of the distances involved. Only away matches in Kyiv and Lutsk (the closest cities, respectively 550 km and 150 km away) are visited by 500-1000 supporters.
The entire atmosphere is born under the stadium screen, in sections 15-16 by over 2500 people. The support is colourful, with lots of flags and banners. The anthem of the club is the song "When the saints go marching in", and translation reads "Here we go, and we lead our FC with us right to the victory. We know the time will come, when we will win gold and the cup will be in Lviv again. Let's take the green and white flag up, the scarfs are rolling everywhere, because "Karpaty" have won."
The most popular song nowadays is "Go ahead Karpaty, go ahead in battle, your fans are with you forever! And your colours, green and white, forever in our heart!". Lviv fans use pyrotechnics very often, even though it is officially forbidden.
Lviv was recognised as the Cultural Capital Of Ukraine 2009. The city produces the majority of new art and modern culture trends in the country, as well as the ideas of various interesting entertainment. It's no wonder that 50 different festivals are listed on the Lviv Calendar of Events. Whether you visit Lviv in the spring, summer, autumn or winter you will feel the atmosphere of a holiday!
If anywhere sums up Lviv it is the beautiful Rynok Square (Market Square), which has been the centre of political, public, cultural, and commercial life of the city for 500 years. It is surrounded by fifty unique architectural monuments dating back to the 16-20th centuries.
There are ten churches within a 200m radius of Rynok Square (and over 80 in the city as a whole). All of them are reflecting the multicultural and multinational nature of Lviv, which has always served as a bridge between Ukraine and Europe.
The City Hall. The current building of the Lviv City Hall was constructed in the Viennese Classicism style in the middle of the 19th century. You can climb 350 wooden stairs and have the pleasure of viewing all the beauty that the city affords from the gallery of the City Hall tower. The City Council of Lviv resides in the building; this, however, does not prevent tourists from walking along its corridors and climbing to its highest point of 65 metres.
The Lviv Opera House, situated on the main city avenue, is an architectural gem of Lviv, built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1901, and is one of the most beautiful theatres in Europe. Designed by architect Zygmunt Gorgolewski, the Grand Theatre in Lviv has been compared to the Paris and Vienna opera houses.
Potocki Palace is a majestic edifice in French Neorenaissance style of late 19th century. Behind the fence with ornamental metal gate you'll see a majestic yet refined structure. The imposing palace is decorated with reliefs, mouldings, murals and stained-glass windows. The Palace of Potockis is a bright example of mature historicism architecture and one of the most interesting architectural landmarks of Lviv.
The Dominican Church in Lviv is located in the city's Old Town, East of the Rynok Square. It was originally built as the Roman Catholic church of Corpus Christi, and today serves as the Greek Catholic church of the Holy Eucharist. The church resembles the church of St. Charles Borromeus in Vienna. It's built on the plan of the Greek Cross inscribed in an ellipsoid and topped with a monumental dome.
Shevchenko avenue is one of the most beautiful central streets; it almost fully preserves the European architectural spirit of the beginning of the 20th century.
The Armenian community, one of the oldest in Lviv, has formed over a period of many years a centre for its national life in Lviv. Its unique architecture portrays the original spirit of this Eastern Christian culture. The Armenian Cathedral (14th-15th centuries) is a unique monument of Eastern culture in Europe. It is a successful architectural combination of various styles: the typical Armenian sanctuary, the Romanesque-Gothic style of Western Europe, and the traditional Ukrainian Halychyna type. Here the remains of an ancient Armenian cemetery have been preserved: gravestones, the oldest one being 600 years old, have been transferred from cemeteries of other Armenian churches and monasteries to Lviv. Pope John Paul II prayed in the Lviv Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the 25th of June 2001.
The Kornyakt Palace (6 Rynok Square) represents an extremely valuable Renaissance monument dating to 1580; it was the palace of the wealthiest citizen in the whole history of Lviv - the merchant Constantine Kornyakt. Later, it was a Royal Mansion: the property and residence of Polish King Jan Sobieski.
High Castle Park – an old shady park on the hill (413 m) overlooking the city, displays the ruins of an ancient castle, an observation deck and offers breathtaking views.
Lviv Arsenal is the oldest arsenal building in Ukraine. It was constructed close to the high wall of the city fortifications in 1555 with large stone blocks. Here the cannons were casted. The city executioner was living in the tower joined to the arsenal, interrogations and tortures took place here too. Since 1981 there is Museum of Weapons in the Arsenal Building – the only museum like this in Ukraine.
There is also a unique museum complex in Lviv. It is the Pharmacy Museum that was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square. The drugstore was established in 1735 by Wilhelm Natorp, a military pharmacist. It was called "Under the Black Eagle". The museum consists of 16 rooms which exhibit antique pharmaceutical appliances, prescriptions, medicines, dishes, a library of pharmacy-related books, and even a reconstructed alchemy workshop.
The Museum of folk architecture and life "Shevchenkivskyy grove" is an open-air museum. You can see the western Ukrainians' life of the 18th and 19th centuries in this ethno-park. The exposition consists of 124 architectural monuments which form 54 homesteads in the territory of 60 hectares. The oldest exhibit is a peasant house of 1749. You can see also smithy, school, sawmill, cloth factory, water- and windmills. Every year there are several ethno-festival held here.
The city logo is the image of five coloruful towers: Armenian cathedral Bell, tower of Kornyakta, theTown Hall, the Latin cathedral Tower, and the Bernardino monastery Bell, with the slogan "Lviv open to the world" underneath.
Saturday 9 June 2012, 20.45CET
#4: Germany vs Portugal
Wednesday 13 June 2012, 18.00CET
#11: Denmark vs Portugal
Sunday 17 June 2012, 20.45CET
#20: Denmark vs Germany
Once the arrangements from UEFA are finalised, we will put all specific matchday information here, including:
UEFA ticketing points
Match day transport (park and ride, etc)
EURO street signage
Cordons/checks, etc
To leave a social legacy in Poland and Ukraine UEFA supports, besides RESPECT Fan Culture – Fans' Embassies, three further programmes that aim on social change.
50% of all European disabled people have never participated in leisure or sport activities. EURO 2012 provides an opportunity to improve access to football and for the removal of physical, sensory and intellectual barriers in public places in the region. It is recognised that supporting and playing football is an integral and vital part of European culture and tradition. Football is increasingly diverse; this naturally includes many more disabled people. The Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE) has formed a disability alliance in the region to help to deliver the awareness project, Respect Inclusion – Football with No Limits.
EURO 2012 offers a unique chance to promote a positive message of diversity and inclusion. The programme will be delivered on behalf of FARE by the long established regional partner, the 'Never Again' Association. Civil society organisations, and ethnic minorities in particular, have been motivated to engage with the preparations. Important stakeholders have signed up to the anti-discrimination agenda. The FARE activities concentrate on minimizing the risk of racist incidents during the tournament as well as promotion of anti-discrimination measures.
RESPECT your Health - Euroschools 2012 is the official community health education programme of the UEFA EURO 2012. This one-year project aims to promote a healthy lifestyle, with a focus on smoking prevention, responsible alcohol consumption, healthy diet and physical activity among young people and their families in Poland and Ukraine. Through a train the trainers approach, local institutions and NGOs in the eight UEFA EURO 2012 host cities will be empowered to activate their communities and promote good health. A guide will help coaches, teachers, social workers and Orlik animators use the power of football and sport to engage communities, increase health literacy levels, and establish a common feeling of ownership for public (sport) grounds.
UEFA EURO 2012 will be tobacco-free. A complete ban on the use, sale or promotion of tobacco will be in force in both indoor and outdoor areas of all match venues. Put into place to protect the health, safety and comfort of all fans and other tournament participants, the tobacco ban complements other activities such as Respect your Health that use the force of football to promote social issues.
EURO tournaments bring people together on and off the pitch. All sorts of encounters are made, some closer than others. The fun may know no bounds, but there are of course rules. Encounters between people from all over Europe can be unforgettable, as long as they are respectful, good humoured and a danger to no one. Show HIV and AIDS the red card. The HIV virus doesn't play fair, so you have to. Unforgettable encounters should leave no lasting damage. When you think fun and passion, think health too: condoms protect!
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