The 1st football match in UkraineIn 1894, a British-style stadium composed of a football field and 7,000 seats was completed on the territory of present-day Stryisky Park. On July 14th, 1894, an important event in the history of Ukrainian football occurred in the same stadium – the first football game was played between the Lviv and Krakow municipal teams of Sokil association. The newspaper, “Gazeta Lwowska” reported that the Lviv players wore grey gym shorts and white sport shirts, whereas the footballers from Krakow played in blue shorts and white sport shirts. Volodymyr Khomytsky, a student at the Lviv Pedagogical University, scored a goal in the sixth minute of the game.
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Event Calendar
January 2012
June 2012
Alfa Jazz Fest 2012
“Fairy-Tale in the Grove” - The 8th theater festival for children
July 2012
The 5th “Wiz-Art” International festival
September 2012
October 2012
December 2012
Lviv Christmas Fair
February 2013
March 2013
Lviv Fashion Week
April 2013
II Gastronomic Festival “Lviv on the Plate”
The III Festival of Pysanka (Easter eggs) in Lviv
“Flugery L’vova” (“Weather-Vanes of Lviv”) – the 11th International Jazz Festival
“Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts” Festival
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1842
city theater founded by Stanislaw Skarbek was built (today it is Maria Zankovetska Theater)
1894
General National Exhibition took place on the territory of Stryiskyy Park
1981
in former City Armory (Arsenal) the only in Ukraine Museum of Weapons started to function
1260
the oldest exhisting Lviv church was erected - John the Baptist Church
1590
Renaissance style Chapel of Three Prelates was erected by Paolo Dominici Romanus and Andriy Pidlisnyy
1895
Church of Barefoot Carmelites was built according to the project of Franz Schtatz Jr. from Koln
