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Country | Ukraine |
Region | Lviv region |
Surface | 7.6 km² |
Population | 13 500 |
Area code | 380-3252 |
Postal Code | 80304 |
Zhovkva - city na Ukraine, in Lviv region, the seat of the Żółkiew region.
Characteristic
Drive
By plane
The closest airport is Lviv Airport.
By rail
There is a train station with direct connections from Lviv.
By car
Żółkiew is located on the international E372 route from Warsaw to Lviv.
By bus
Communication
Worth seeing
- St. Lawrence in Żółkiew - among the monuments, the parish church built in the years 1606-1618 from the foundation of Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, dedicated to St. Lawrence with the tombs of Jakub and Konstanty Sobieski.
- castle in Zhovkva from the beginning of the 17th century
- neo-baroque town hall from 1932, designed by Bronisław Wiktor
- synagogue
- team o. Dominicans:
- monastery - called the royal monastery (Conventus Regalis) due to the caretakers, baroque
- church of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1655, now a Greek Catholic church. Inside the temple, there are late-baroque tombstones (badly damaged after the war) of the founder Teofila Sobieska and her son Marek, brother of King Jan III, beheaded by the Cossacks after the Battle of Batoh. The painting of the Mother of God, which came from here, was placed after 1945 in the church at ul. Dominikańska in Warsaw
- church of st. Łazarza and the Felician Convent from 1627, founded by Zofia Daniłowiczowa
- church of st. Andrew and the Dominican Monastery, rebuilt into a hospital and barracks, founded by King Jan III
- Orthodox church Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mother of God), wooden from 1705.
- church and monastery oo. Basilians of St. st. Trinity, formerly Of the Heart of Jesus, baroque, founded in 1612 by Stanisław Żółkiewski. Rebuilt in the Byzantine-Russian style in 1906.
- houses with arcades from the 17th century at the market square from the side of the collegiate church
- Gates:
- Zwierzyniecka (reconstruction)
- Krakowska (Glińska) from the 17th century, reconstructed in the 1990s, the original was dismantled 30 years earlier
Nearest neighborhood
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Gastronomy
Festivals, parties
Accommodation
- Hotel Styl
- Akvarel
contact
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