Europe without a passport? Simply and easily. Even easier than it seems.
Meet Lviv, Ukraine.
Inhabitants of other cities of Ukraine walk around the city on a par with foreign tourists, navigate the map, view the old architecture and take pictures against the backdrop of Lviv's sights, because Lviv does not look like other Ukrainian cities.
Under the black eagle
Such a romantic name is the Pharmacy Museum in Lviv. It is noteworthy that the facade of the pharmacy and the patio, which can also be visited, fully correspond to the style and architecture of the quarter of wealthy philistines of the XIX century. The interior decoration of the Pharmacy rooms also preserved an especial style: stone white walls, wooden cabinets and stairs, jars of glass bottles behind glass doors ...
The most interesting exhibit, according to visitors' reviews, is a pharmaceutical scales attached to bronze figures of the ancient symbols of medicine - Asklepia and Hygiene. Also in the exhibits of the museum there is an old prescription book of Lviv pharmacists and a herbarium with the rarest medicinal plants of the world. Visitors are invited to visit the Pharmacy laboratory, where there are drying cabinets, grass cutters and other mechanisms for making medicines. In large wooden barrels near the walls of the Pharmacy is the famous "iron wine", which increases the level of iron in the blood. You can buy it, but you will not be able to drink it from a glass - your teeth will spoil. For the tasting of this wine must necessarily use straw straws.
Chic of the French court. Lviv's Versailles
The Potocki Palace in Lviv is a building, with its interiors meeting the French fashion. Marble, canvases, mirrors, stucco, silk on the walls and gilding on the ceilings. The refinement and charm of the French court literally hovers in the air. Outwardly, the Palace also fully corresponds to the French architecture of the times of King Louis XVI.
Luxurious decoration of the Palace today is reconstructed and is in excellent condition. In the building there is an exhibition of the art gallery, exhibits are located on the second floor.
Salo: "Scho not z'im, then ponadkushuyu"
What Ukrainian (and Russian too) does not like bacon? To this product of national cuisine in Ukraine are treated with respect, and exhibit pictorial and sculptural images of a favorite product in the Museum of Fat in Lviv. Some museum values, for example, "lips of Merlin Monroe" from fat, can be tasted.
To taste the exhibits is offered in a restaurant that is also part of the museum and is decorated with other, not edible exhibits. For example, posters glamorous diva with slices of fat on his chest or images of a piece of fat with the inscription "Malevich's fat". Here is a European-Ukrainian Lviv mix.
Winter fairy tale
Rich in the sights of the city of Lviv. But both the Pharmacy Museum and the Potocki Palace go into the background when the city comes to town
The winter spirit in Lviv is the spirit of an animated fairy tale roaming the stone pavement among the ancient buildings.