Currently celebrating its 750th anniversary, Lviv was founded in 1256 by the prince Danylo Halyts’kyi and named after his son Lev (Lion). The city quickly took advantage of its location at the crossroads of trade routes to and from the Black and Baltic Sea ports, and from Kyiv to Central and Western Europe, and grew apace. So rich was the city that it was often fought over: it has been the property of five countries in the past 200 years, even enjoing a brief period as the capital of the independent Western Ukrainian Republic in 1918.

A real but rough and unexplored pearl of Eastern Europe, Lviv resembles an open-air museum with its 2000 historical, architectural and cultural monuments. Much of the city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Lviv is a city where the past meet the future.

A new generation of enterpreneurs has met the recent influx of tourists with new restaurants, pubs and bars with a high level of service, and surprisingly wide range of styles. A cup of coffee in Lviv is said to be the best cup of coffee you can get in the Ukraine.