Lviv. Last Sunday I was at Lviv - the city that situated two hundred kilometres to the South from the city I am living. By the way I am living in Rinve. There is nothing special about my city, so if you decided to travel to Ukraine, exclude Rivne from your plan right away. There is nothing to do here, no ancient streets, no castles, no peculiar touristic traps. Rivne's citizen are going to kill me. But anyway one day I'll write something enthusiastic about my city, but today I've installed behind the computer screen to write something about Lviv. Lviv was founded by king Danylo Galytski and was a gift to his son Lev. That name in Ukrainian language means Lion, so Lev - Lviv has a common root, and that's why Lviv sometimes named as City of Lion. And to prove this you can find plenty of lions on the city centre, big and small, old and just made. There one more connection between Lviv and Rivne. Allegedly Rivne was founded as well by king Danylo. In 1283 historics found first writing mention about Rivne. In Polish chronicles was recorded that Rivne was one of the settlement of Danylo's kingdom. Probably there was a settlement on the place where Lviv was grounded, but it said that city was build from zero. City centre is most famous place in Lviv. It had included in the list of UNESCO world heritage and attracted by tourists from Ukraine and abroad. Most of the historic monuments of Ukraine you can found in Lviv. That's why centre was occupied by tourists and touristic traps. Plethora of cafes, restaurants, counters and stalls squeezed into the narrow street of the city centre. If you want to lost yourself in the crowd or to be at yourself and be in touch with modern civilisation come to Lviv. Lviv's city centre have some resemblance with modern Europe capitals like Vienna, Prague or Budapest, not so pompous and grand, and in comparison to these big cities, to my mind, has even some provincial traits. Nothing strange in this, Lviv was the city on the border of the Austria-Hungary empire and local oligarchs with less budget tried to copy life of theirs more rich colleges. Lviv has only one hill that called High Castle, you don't find any castle on the top, but you will see the city from the top. It's a second place you should visit after city centre. You don't find river in Lviv. That's odd, you said. The river exists, but local government once decided to hide river under the city and include it to the local sewer.