Lviv region is an amazing treasury of natural and architectural treasures. Here you can see rapid waterfalls and fast rivers, unique reserves and picturesque parks, wonderful religious buildings, palaces and medieval castles. Surprisingly, the historical part of Lviv is included in the UNESCO list, because ancient buildings have been preserved here in excellent condition, most of which are residential buildings.
The largest region (21.8 thousand km2, 3.6% of the country's territory) of Western Ukraine, formed in 1939 after the accession of these lands to the Ukrainian SSR. The region has 20 districts, 44 cities, 34 settlements and 1,850 villages. The population of the region is 2568.4 thousand people. (5.5% of the country's population), of which 1,548,800 are urban. (60.1% of the population of the region). The climate is moderately continental, with mild (with frequent thaws) winter and mild (often wet) summer. The temperature regime is strongly differentiated depending on the height above sea level: the average temperature in January is -4 ° C (Male Polissia), -5 ° C (Podilskyi Highlands and Precarpathia) and up to -7 ° C (Carpathians); the average temperature in July is, respectively, + 19 ° C, + 18 ° C and + 15 ° C. The amount of precipitation, 60% of which falls in May-September, is: 640-740 mm (Male Polissia), 680-770 mm (Peredkarpattia ) and up to 1000 mm (in the Carpathians) per year. Lviv region is characterized by a variety of natural conditions.
The Lviv region has significant resort, health, sports and excursion-tourist recreational resources (natural conditions, historical, architectural, ethnographic monuments). According to residents of other regions of Ukraine and foreign tourists, the most interesting city, first of all, is Lviv. But Lviv region is also a vacation in the Carpathians, foothills, medieval castles, fortresses, palaces, wooden churches and other monuments and interesting places. For the most part, elements, structures or ensembles of all important European architectural and town-planning trends have been preserved here: Old Russian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, classical, empire, modern, etc.
