Latin cathedral

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Latin Cathedral - the main Catholic church of Lviv - is located on the Cathedral Square in the historical center of Lviv near the Market Square. This majestic building is the only surviving architectural Gothic monument in the city.

The cathedral was built for one hundred and thirty-three years - from 1360 to 1493. But even after the completion of construction, the church was constantly completed and supplemented, acquiring, in addition to Gothic, features of Renaissance and Baroque styles. One of the main dominants of the historical center of Lviv is a five-tiered seventy-meter bell tower of the temple.

In the sixteenth century, many chapels were built around the cathedral, serving as tombs for the Lviv nobility. To this day, only the chapels of Boimov and Campians have survived, which have become a single whole with the architectural ensemble of the Latin Cathedral.

The interior of the cathedral is richly decorated with sculpture and frescoes. Particular attention is attracted by remarkable stained glass windows made at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries.