Lviv Favorite Tips by om_212 Top 5 Page for this destination

Good downloadable Lviv pocket map

Favorite thing: a good bilingual
pocket map (A4) of the Lviv historical center and major sight-seeing places.

Lviv Web Resources in English

Favorite thing: The 2012 Football Championship has stimulated creation of two very good websites on Lviv – Lviv. Travel and Visit.Lviv that besides good graphics and useful information in Ukrainian have comprehensive and adequate English translations. Besides things to do, the places to stay (including hostels), places to eat, it has the list of upcoming events, which I find particularly useful.

Lviv travel guide in 5 languages

Favorite thing: Touring Lviv (Publisher: Baltia) - a detailed 224-page guidebook on the sight-seeing places, with maps. Includes a lot of useful information, including Lviv restaurants, coffee shops, place to go out and accommodation tips. it also has a section on trips outside of Lviv (Zhovkva-Krekhiv, Olesko-Pidhitsi-Zolochiv, etc.) Besides Ukrainian and Russian, it’s available in English, German and Polish. it's available in all book stores on Rynok Sq. and around. the price varies from 55-65 Hr ($11-13). there are also plentry of smaller brochures and leaflets on the single places like the Latin Cathedral, the Golden Horse-Shoe trip, etc.

you might also consider stocking travel guides to other Ukrainian cities including Kyiv (English, German, Italian Spanish, Polish, Russian); Crimea (English, German, Russian); Transcarpatia (English, Russian); Odesa (English, Russian)