Despite the seemingly Islamic architecture, this is actually the Jewish hospital in Lviv. I just walked by, so I can't report on just how Jewish or medical it in fact is.
We didn't go inside because we had a more important destination--a German-style beer hall, Robert Doms Beer House. Liter mugs of Lvivske Pivo (compare the glasses to Anand's head).
Lvivske brewery.
Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's national poet and the man largely responsible for the modern Ukrainian language today. Kinda like Shakespeare, but if English only had Shakespeare and about 10 other major writers.
Not sure what this was.
Opera House. Some Ukrainian told me "Lviv has number seven opera in Europe." Not so sure what made this opera so good (or what made six other operas better than Lviv's), but it certainly looks pretty. It's also much more attractive than the operas I've seen in Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk.
...which is probably due to the fact that this opera was built by the Austrian Habsburgs, and the other Ukrainian operas had the misfortune of being built by the Russian tsars or, worse, the Soviets.
Church of St. John the Baptist, the oldest church in Lviv. Currently a tiny, tiny museum that costs 25 cents American to enter.
on the way up to Castle Hill, the highest point in Lviv
Receiving messages from Lucifer?
At Castle Hill
Castle Hill in profile
Ukraine deer! Get it!?
Armenian Cathedral
front left corner of the Armenian cathedral
in the Lvivske Pivo museum...
candid photo of Chelsea...
...who apparently can't take a photo herself. Or my camera sucks. She claims a combination of the 2 factors.
Anand and I at the museum
A monument to the Cossacks. Ukrainians sure love their Cossacks.
Lviv looks awesome... I wish I could have made it out there for spring break to join you guys!
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