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Lviv’s First Centralized Fire Station

Areta — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:27:29 +0000

The fire service of the city of Lviv was organized on January 4, 1849, on the initiative of Mayor Karl Göpflingen-Bergendorf, and is one of the oldest organized fire brigade structures on the territory of present-day Ukraine. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, to further improve the city’s […]

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‘Ghost Statues’: Lviv’s Empty Niches

Areta — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:44:20 +0000

An interesting phenomenon in Lviv is its many “ghost statues.” This is what I call the empty niches found on the facades of buildings where once stood statues, especially of religious figures such as the Virgin Mary or saints. Under the Soviet Union, traces of religion were removed from the […]

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