Every visitor has a personal reason for coming to Lviv. Some want to discover the city for the first time; others are looking for family addresses or have a passion for architecture or history. Some have already seen the main sights and are keen to explore other neighbourhoods…
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Join me for a walk through Lviv's historic centre — a city of merchants and craftspeople, printers and artists, entrepreneurs and people whose everyday lives shaped the city. I will show you Rynok Square, the Armenian and Jewish quarters, Ruska Street, the remains of the city…
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Join me in discovering Jewish Lviv — a city of family stories, religious study, trade, literature, philanthropy and intellectual exploration. We will walk through the streets of the old Jewish Quarter within the city walls. We will see the remains of the Golden Rose Synagogue…
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On this walk through Lychakiv Cemetery, I will show you the graves of victims of notorious murders and tell the stories behind the cases that shocked Lviv.
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I will take you to the scenes of some of Lviv’s most notorious crimes, from the sixteenth century to the Soviet era. We will explore political assassinations, personal tragedies and criminal intrigue. We begin at the Lviv Regional Council building, then walk through Rynok…
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Each of the ten houses on the eastern side of Rynok Square has remarkable stories to tell. Through them, we will discover a Lviv that feels alive, unpredictable and very different from the city of school textbooks. We will stop at each building, including the Bandinelli Palace…
Read more →Lviv is best understood through the people who lived here rather than through a checklist of landmarks. On my walking tours, we read the city like a document: we examine buildings, squares, inscriptions and small details, compare them with archival evidence, and bring human voices back into the story of the past.
My walks explore the history of Lviv and Galicia, with people at the centre of every story. I discuss well-known and overlooked events, historical criminal cases, family conflicts, city scandals and everyday life in different periods. History then becomes more than a sequence of dates. It becomes a conversation about choices, responsibility and the conditions in which people lived.
The stories are based on archival documents, court records, historical newspapers and other verifiable sources. I do not repeat an urban legend simply because it is popular. When the evidence is incomplete or contradictory, I say so and explain what can and cannot be established.
For a first introduction to the city, choose a walk through the historic centre. We explore Rynok Square and the surrounding streets through the lives of the people who occupied their houses, rather than treating the architecture as a collection of façades. The route shows how commerce, private life, municipal rules and ideas of justice changed over time.
The Lychakiv Cemetery tour focuses on the people behind familiar names and silent monuments. Other walks examine major crimes and investigations from Lviv’s past — cases in which the surviving documents are often more surprising than the legends.
The tour catalogue gives the description, duration, price and next available date for each route. If no date is currently scheduled, leave your contact details and I will let you know when a new date is announced.
The tours take place on foot. We stop where the city itself helps explain the story, with enough time to notice details, ask questions and discuss the evidence. The duration and meeting point vary by route and are always shown on the individual tour page.
Tours are available in English, Ukrainian and Polish. You can join a scheduled event or request a private tour. For a private booking, we agree on the date, starting time and pace in advance.
The walks are suitable for first-time visitors who want a clear introduction to Lviv, as well as residents and returning travellers who already know the central streets but want to discover new stories behind familiar façades. Each route provides enough background to follow the subject while also introducing less obvious events and sources.
No specialist knowledge is required. I explain the necessary context as the story develops and avoid overwhelming the group with names or dates that do not help us understand the case. Visitors with a deeper interest in history will still find references to evidence, competing interpretations and details worth exploring further.
My aim is not only to guide you along a route but to offer a way of reading the city independently. After the tour, it becomes easier to notice the design of a square, inscriptions, courtyards, memorial plaques and the changing uses of the same building.
Individual tour pages include related podcast episodes and videos where relevant. You can return to them after the walk to explore a particular case or historical context in greater depth. The tour can therefore become the beginning of a longer engagement with Lviv.
Lviv’s past was shaped by different communities, languages and political systems. I retain historical names when they help explain a source and clarify why the same person or street may appear under different spellings in surviving records.
The English, Ukrainian and Polish versions of a tour use the same factual foundation, but they are not mechanical translations. I adjust the explanations to the background that is likely to be familiar to each audience.
The route treats the city itself as part of the evidence. We look at a building or square not only as an attractive object but as the setting for particular decisions and conflicts. An architectural detail matters when it helps explain the people, institutions and rules of a period.
For this reason, each tour has a clear subject and does not attempt to cover every landmark in a single walk. Instead of dozens of brief stops, we examine a smaller number of connected stories in greater depth. This leaves more time for questions and makes it easier to remember the people and events behind a building’s name.
My name is Danylo Pohrebniak. I trained as a lawyer, which taught me to read documents closely, compare testimony and distinguish established facts from assumptions. I research the history of Lviv and Galicia and host the podcast Stories Under the Microscope, where I examine archival cases, historical newspapers and little-known individual lives.
For me, a tour is a continuation of that research on the streets of the city. My aim is that, by the end of the walk, Lviv feels more understandable and its familiar buildings no longer seem like silent scenery.
Choose a route from the list, check the next date and use the booking options on the page. You can contact me by phone, Viber or WhatsApp. New dates are also announced in the Telegram group.
For a private tour, send your preferred date, language and number of participants. I will confirm availability and suggest a suitable route.
Tours are available in English, Ukrainian and Polish. The language of a scheduled event is stated in its description. For private bookings, we agree on the language in advance.
Yes. The date, time, route and price of a private walk are agreed individually.
The price, duration, meeting point and next date appear on each individual tour page.
Leave your contact details or join the Telegram group. I will let you know when a new date becomes available.
No. Each story is explained clearly and does not require specialist knowledge.
