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Travel to Zhovkva, visa requirements / Get around / Zhovkva attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Zhovkva souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Zhovkva nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Contact / Get outZhovkva (various spellings, Polish: Zolkiew, between 1951 and 1992: Nesterov) is a city in the Ukrainian part of East Galicia. It is known for its Renaissance buildings.
Travel to Zhovkva - Visa Requirements
Trains from Lviv.
Tours and Getting around Zhovkva
By foot.
Zhovkva tourist attractions and sightseeing
Zhovkva Castle
Baroque Synagogue in a dreadful condition of disrepair
Renaissance Market Square
Basilian Monastery under which a mass grave of more than 80 corps from WWII was recently discovered. It is still unclear whether the people burried in this secret place were Jews killed by the Nazis or more probably Ukrainians killed by the Russian Soviet authorities. This issue is still under investigation.
Dominican Cathedral
St. Lawrence Cathedral
Wooden Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church
Zhovkva city tours
Zhovkva souvenirs and shopping
Zhovkva Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Zhovkva nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Zhovkva cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
Contact
Get out
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