Park named after Ivan Franko Lviv Park , a monument of landscape gardening art of local importance (since 1984) . The park is protected as national treasures, it's environmental and recreational facilities.
Park named after Franco's is located on the slope of the hills, towering over the basin in the Lviv downtown.Limited to streets, she sang (formerly Chernyshevsky) , the University , Listopadovogo Chin and Jan Matejko . In the parterre of the park complex is a monument to Ivan Franko Lviv University is located opposite , in front of the upper part of the park is the hotel Nistru. The total area of the park Franko is 10.6 ha.
The first public park in Lviv , it was founded in the late XVI century. Based park in the former city of fields that were initially owned by a wealthy bourgeois family Scholz- Wolfowitz .
In 1655, there was placed the artillery of the Russian troops , which, together with the forces of Bohdan Khmelnytsky besieged Lviv.
In 1886, the central avenue was built , extending out Jagiellonian (now the Sich Riflemen ). In the period called mezhduvoenny Kosciuszko Park in honor of the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko. In the Soviet period, the park was named after writer Ivan Franko , who lived opposite him in 1878-1879 .
In the 1894-1896 Community Development and beautify the city set in front of the Galician Sejm ( now the building of the Lviv University) Jan busts Dobzhansky - writer , Jan Nepomuk Kaminsky - Director of the Polish theater, Leon Sapieha - the governor of Galicia, Arthur Grotgera - Lviv painter , Bishop C.Glovinskogo - founder of the Youth Education Fund , and the mall - a bust of Count IV Dunin- Borkovsky - poet and Hellenist . The flowerbeds in front of the Diet was a cast-iron vase with bas-reliefs depicting a liberal interpretation of the work of B. Thorvaldsen flow of human life. In 1949,after removal of the monument to the governor Agenor Goluchowski , who stood at the entrance to the park with the current street . Sich Riflemen , the vase was moved to place the monument where it is today.
In the Soviet period, it also housed a movie theater park . In 1964, before the university in a park with a monument to Ivan Franko ( sculptor V. Borisenko , DAKrvavich , E. Mysko , V. Odrehovsky . Chaika , architect A. Shulyar ).
We are building a park in Ukrainian Society for Nature Conservation , the house gardener , stone gazebo and a playground.
The basis of the plantings with trees planted in 1855-1890 years : oaks , maples , lindens, poplar .Later there were also planted more rare plants : bunduk , sycamore klenolisty , yew , oak and other rocky .
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