Statue of Neptune in Lviv’s Rynok Square. (Alamy/telegraph.co.uk)
David Mittell, whose essay “Why I love Lviv” ran here on January 26, has sent some photographs to illustrate the various conditions of architecture in Lviv, which he characterizes – truly – as one of Europe’s most beautiful unknown cities. On top is a photo of Lviv from the Internet. Below are some of David’s photographs, straight from the Mittellian camera – and straight up, too, as David’s camera does not mince words. This is not the tourists’ Lviv, but the one to love no less, for it needs love the more.
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This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred.
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