The city was founded by the Orthodox, Rusyn prince Danila Galitsky as a powerful defensive fortress on the borders of the Galicia-Volyn principality, to fight the Mongol-Tatars, and named after his son, Leo. The first written mention of the city is found in the Galicia-Volyn Chronicle under 1256. From that moment on, the city of Lviv has been running its chronology - our city is already more than 750 years old. In 1272, Prince Leo transferred the capital of the Rusyn kingdom to Lviv (as the Galicia-Volyn state was called at that time).At the end of the XIV Art. Galicia-Volyn principality is declining. The dynasty of Galician princes ends. Taking advantage of the situation, Lviv is captured by the Polish king Casimir III the Great. From that moment Lviv became a part of the Polish state and became a Polish city for many centuries. Leopolis - this is how the city began to be called in the Latin manner. Medieval Lviv, built according to the Western European principle of urban planning with a powerful fortification system, and living according to the Magdeburg Law, is becoming the largest and richest economic and commercial center in Europe.At the end of the XVIII century. as a result of the 3 divisions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between Austria, Russia and Prussia, Poland as a state ceased to exist. Lviv, with a significant part of the modern territory of Western Ukraine, goes to Austria. Over time, this territory gained autonomy and became part of the Austro-Hungarian state under the beautiful name Kingdom of Galicia and Vladimir. Lviv, named Lemberg, became the capital of this Kingdom. It was the Austrians who turned gloomy, run-down, medieval Lviv into a bright, modern, slightly pathetic European capital.The ancient center of the city and its soul is the Market Square and the Town Hall, on the side, framed by the chapels of the Campians and Boims, rises the central Catholic church - the Latin Cathedral. In the Armenian quarter - a cozy Armenian Church, near - the Greek Catholic Church of the Assumption and the souvenir market Vernissage. On Svobody Avenue we will admire the monument to Shevchenko and the majestic opera and ballet theater named after Solomiya Krushelnitskaya. From the side of the Jewish quarter, it is worth visiting the Arsenal, the Lviv Chocolate Workshop. Do not miss the Bernardine and Dominican cathedrals.