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The monastery occupies a triangular plot, which was the basis for the shaft between the Galician city gates and Royal bastion, and the top—a strong bastion of what was called Bernardine. It was surrounded by strong stone walls with battlements and a tower with Hlynyanskymy gate. There were adjacent farm buildings—smithy, stable, and others. The monastery main part is the Bernardyns'kyi Roman-Catholic Church (Бернардинський костьол). First built in wood, in 1600, finishing work continued into 1630. In 1738–1740 rebuilt in hewn stone.
The Bernardine church and monastery in Lviv, Ukraine, is located in the city's Old Town, south of the market square. It was designed by Paolo Dominici. The monastery along with the church of St. Andrew now belong to the Order of St. Basil the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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Руїни синагоги Золота Роза
This was the oldest synagogue in Ukraine. In 1941 the Nazi invaders destroyed this building together with other synagogues. Today you can visit the foundations and one remaining wall; also, there is a commemorative plaque.
Державний історичний музей старовинної зброї Арсенал
It was a city fortification, built in 1554—1556, in Renaissance military architecture style. Weapons and armour from medieval times to the beginning of 20th century, from over 30 countries. The museum is located in the oldest (16th century) of three historic arsenal buildings in Lviv. Temporarily closed as of July 2022.
Галерея Гердан
Exhibition and sale of contemporary art: painting, graphics, ceramics.
Центр міської історії Центрально-східної Європи
The center produces various exhibitions, seminars and conferences. There are films, sound recordings from private collections and official collections which represent life of large and small towns of Central and Eastern Europe.
Музей меблів та порцеляни
There a remarkable collection of almost 700 examples of Ukrainian and European furniture, and textiles as well as 17th– to 19th-century metalwork. The museum also owns a collection of porcelain, art glass and pottery from the 16th to 20th centuries that includes over 11,000 artifacts.
Успенскої церкви, or Dormition Church
In the 1550s the Dormition brotherhood emerged in which the school operated and printing. The 65-m-high church has a two-headed Russian eagle image as the memory of the significant donation of funds to build a church, made by Tsar Feodor I of Russia in 1592. Here is also Chapel of the Three Holy Bishops (Каплиця Трьох святителів) a Renaissance architecture, built by architect Peter Krasovsky in 1578–1591, it is adjacent to one side of the northern wall of the Assumption Church. Also here is the Tower of Korniakt (Вежа Корнякта), built as the belfry of the Assumption Church, served as defence towers in the siege and fire guards patrol the item, built in 1572–1578.