LVIV, UKRAINE | One Of The Coolest Cities In Europe
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Exploring the beautiful and fascinating city of Lviv in western Ukraine near Poland.
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LVIV, UKRAINE | One Of The Coolest Cities In Europe
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Love Lviv, one of the best cities I've been to in Europe
I noticed how there were no litter on the streets. Good people it seems. Thank you for this video.
Love that answer. 'Going where I want to go'. What a wonderful mantra for life
Wow, covered in snow Lviv must look like a magical enchanted city!
It is.
Have been twice in Lviv .Its became one of my favorite place to be. Amazing city,looking forward to visit again...
My Babcia (Grandmother) was born and raised there until the Nazi's took her from there when she was 18yo. She was a nursing student and forced into a labor camp in Germany. She is the only one of her family to survive and was not allowed to go back because it was annexed to Ukraine. My Dziadek (Grandfather) was from east of Lwow, a town called Tarnopil (Ternopil now). He was in the Polish Army and a POW for 6 years under the Nazi's. I hope to visit sometime.
got goosebumps from 22:19 to 23:28 you did it well comrade
I live in Lviv😊sincere thanks for sharing the beauty of Lviv with the world. it was a pleasure to travel with you in hometown😍👍🤗
Any advice? I’m relocating.
Have been considering retiring to Ukraine. Is Lviv pet friendly? We have to French Bulldogs and was wondering how accepted dogs are?
@@cherten1 ok, lviv is pet friendly 🐶. I have american staff terrier. I am dogs lover✨😍😍🐶
You have some many options to have a great walk with your pets. A lots of park, where you can relax, have a great time, to drink delicious coffee, and your dog 🐶 will be happy to run in those beautiful place
@@harryzarubaiii357If you need any specific help, I am always happy to help. Enjoy the beauty of the city. I wish you all the best✨😉
It's possible to live in Lviv with 600€?
I was born and raised here love my city
now I live in America but I want back home I want to start my business in Ukraine yeah...👊🏻
Good luck with your plans!
Beautiful cityscape and I felt grounded and peaceful inside like everyone was my family I've never been outside of the USA but for over 25years I've felt good about the idea of living in Ukraine as well as a few other European countries like Germany ,Moldova , Bulgaria ,and so on I could feel at rest in Europe something that I haven't ever felt in the United states I don't belong in the USA even though my ancestors came here in 1601 I belong in European countries so I want to thank you Gabriel for helping me to see the beautiful places that are there in Europe I enjoyed watching this video in all honesty it was one of your better videos not because you made a comment about not really intending on doing a video but because it lacked alot of the historical context this video allowed us to feel like we were right beside you walking through the streets and parks it didn't feel like an tour guide video it actually felt like an I'm on vacation from everything video it actually felt more relaxed than some of your other videos where you do some local history background information we got to feel as though we were on an actual vacation
Big thanks from me. I was born and live yet in Lviv
I also liked the swirling cobblestone patterns in the road. That is art at it's best. Very difficult to do.
This is one of your best videos in a long time!
I’m a retired American living in Saranda, Albania. I leave for 3 months each year to start the 1 year visa-free time period over again. I just returned from 2 months in Lviv and it was everything you said and even much more! Fabulous city! And.....SO inexpensive! Almost like Albania in that way!
Thanks for showing some things I didn’t even see! BTW, the place with the oil wells is called The Gaslight. One of the most famous eateries and bar/pub in Lviv. The interior has literally hundreds of oil lamps hanging from the walls and ceiling. The bar serve tiny vials of those multi-colored liquids you saw outside....some kind of designer spirits that are very popular with young patrons👍
Thanks again!
I see, very cool, thanks for the info Robert. Enjoy Albania.
I really felt for you man when at about 29 minutes into the clip you begin to discuss the reality of the effort it takes to film these shots. You are appreciated man! Keep traveling and hosteling!
Great video . I'm hopefully going in March so this is very helpful. Thank You:)
I'm feeling very-very grateful to you for your interesting in my hometown. Thanks!
Seems like such a neat place. Definitely adding this to the list. Already booked Georgia and Armenia soon because of you, Gabe!
I was in Georgia twice and can only recommend to travel there. IMO Armenia is OK but there is much more to do and to see and Georgia.The Infrastructure,roads and transport connection is better.
How was
Don't go to Armenia, you may regret..!!!
@@GreenCroco1 why?
"L'vooff" is closer to Polish pronunciation. It was my mother's ancestral home.
It and is
Great job. Nice raw footage. Pure walking experience. Thank you.
I was born in Lviv, and lived there until twenty four years old. Before moving to USA , in Soviet Union era. Thank you for this video.
How could you move to
USA through the soviet era ???
I applaud you for following your passions in your travels. I think that produces the best footage for us to learn and enjoy.
This was great!! We so appreciate your style of letting the scenery be the focus. We always feel like we are walking thru these places along with you. We think you are one of the best out there! God Bless you!
I like the way you move your camera - helps to see everything around
The map you have shown at the end of your video is not a map of Ukraine. It's a map of Austro-Hungarian Galicja which covered southern Poland and part of today's Ukraine. You can see Cracow and Tatra mountains on this map if you take a closer look. Galicja disappeared when Poland become independent in 1918 after over 120 years of Russian, German and Austrian occupation.
Great, thanks for the info.
YOUR travels-YOUR choices. ✊🏼☮️💟
I was there last Christmas. It was amazing!
gpatrick52 did it snow?
MemorySeekers yes. It was magical. A fine snow the entire 3 days we were there. Beautiful!
Gabe- ‘I go where I want to go’. Yeah, that sounds like a good enough explanation to me. 👍
My birth city. Great place!
10:26 "Gazowa Lampa" restaurant. Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor. He was a pioneer who in 1856 built the world's first modern oil refinery. His achievements included the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853), and the construction of the world's first modern oil well (1854). So you saw there an oil pump :).
Thank u!
Thanks for the walkaround Gabe. Your video was exactly as long as my bus commute home from Manhattan and heckuva more interesting than my view would have been of New Jersey. We had lunch recently in Berkeley on our way to check out Reno, Nevada and such and I thought of u and your dad building a building there. On our way back from Nevada the smoky haze from the Napa/Sonoma wildfire was pretty thick over the northern Bay Area and Central Valley. We stopped in Nevada City for lunch which was without power and most of the businesses were closed - just a few with generators were open. Enjoy Finland with your friend!
Very cool. Thanks for the update on my hometown area. My mom has been without power and my aunt had to evacuate. Not sure what the latest is but hopefully they calm down soon.
If you come next time to Western Ukraine then go to Chernivtsi,Khotyn,Kamyanets-Podolski,Ivano-Frankivsk.
Andrij Ternopil
@@mykolakanyuk yes too.
A brilliant comprehensive walkabout Gabriel. It makes me want to visit Lviv. Great stuff 👍
Thank you so much Gabriel, for your nice video.
Loved Lviv, the cold looking skies, the beautiful buildings and churches, the food market, and most of all the brown Volkswagen to your left at 23:06. Love Volkswagen's!!! Thank you again Gabriel for taking us along on this amazing journey! God Bless you and Happy Halloween!!
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Looks beautifull city, no doubt former Austro-Hungarian Empire architectural influence.
Gabriel:
No need to apologize or explain.
We’re all just enjoying your vids!
Your video is like diving in underwater cave. Only instead of caves - streets
Gabe one of these days soon you need to do a Q&A. You are one of the few travel bloggers that walks miles and miles. Most of them don't, and that's why I watch your channel and not the others. Wolter's World does Q&A's and they are hugely popular.
I've been in Kyiv and Odessa. Gotta go to Lviv...
if you change your mind mayby not know but next time to visit PL give me "a call" i promiss you it will take something about a week or 2, and you will see the real undiscovered Poland. Have a safe jurney and see you on the road. Best wishes
Love Lviv was there in the summer and had a wonderful time.
great video, I live here, but still nice to see it on video, you manage to show a lot
Thanks. :)
Did you see Armenian church in Lvov ? They also sell Armenian coffee in few places.
I love all the graffiti but they missed a couple bits, and the toy dump is amazing
love your video style. Wherever you decide to go, thank you for taking us along Gabe. Safe travels stay warm
It was nice walking with you!
Pete :")
The music is a perfect volume.
That is a very special place. Classical too.
Excellent, that's good to hear. Getting the audio levels right can be tricky sometimes.
Was in Krakow a few weeks back and loved it! this place is definitely on my radar now.
Great Video to understand this city
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Так:)
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Так😊
і львів'яни і кияни))
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Gabe, I know you’re from California but you’re over killing it with your winter gear. I checked the temps in Liviv and it’s in the 60’s all week. I wear T-shirt’s in 40 degree weather.
It is a very beautiful city. I think the most beautiful. I share these videos with my lady friend there. Try saying Le Vi vee.
Thank you very much, it was very interesting. I was in this city over 30 years ago. Wish you luck.
It is definitely getting chilly all over the place. We just got a foot of snow in Denver, a very rare occurrence for October. It's like we skipped over fall and went straight to winter. lol
There is also Austrian influence in Galicia and Lviv especially. There is Austrian architecture to remind the city a bit of Vienna. It was long part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Yes , it looks like Vienna in many ways .
Most of the churches and palaces in Lviv where built long before the city became a part of Austria at the end of the 18th century. If you live in Lviv you should know its history. I bet your ancestors had nothing to do with Lviv.
no anastasia I never said that I am from Lviv.
It's typical of central European architecture and culture. Vienna, Progue, Galicia Budapest and such they all share similar architecture.
Long occupied...
Would this be called old world European with some modern flair, not a lot of over the top tech modern like Hong Kong,a very old traditional European city with a lot of historical significant architecture still intact that gives it a time signature , the preservation of this city that is still going in 2019 is amazing! Good video!
Gabriel you should visit Cernivti, its not as big as Lviv but still has a nice pretty big old center, specially the University, its to the south east of Lviv close to the northern border of Romania, just check it out online, plenty to see. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi
Great video on the flavor of Lviv Center. I was there first in about 2001. Then it was just like walking in a black & white movie. In 2003 I was back & was surprized to see the first building exterior being painted. It is the one on the right, lighter building ( Polish built, ~120 y.o.) at the 21:10 mark. I bought the flat on the 4th floor ( & you see one of the bedroom windows on the 4th floor, in the video). The other window overlooks Saborna Cirva (Church) Courtyard (seen at the 26 min mark).
I have been back 15 times since but last in 2017. The economic development has accellerated dramatically since about 2015 & though most of the world is concerned with the "civil-war/Russian-incursion" on the south eastern corner, Lviv is on the Western side of Ukraine & probably the safest of all Ukrainian cities. Tourism to Ukraine is strongest there for that reason, but as well, the Square mile around Ploshtia Rynok ( the City Square that you walked through at the 12:30 mark.. there is a tavern on the square that is said to have been open continuously since the 1400s ) is a UNESCO designated World Heritage site for its archetectual heritage from the height of old Europe ( about 100 to 200 years ago).
I'm so lucky I walked around Liviv without having to fill, it must be tough being a UA-camr, never enjoying the moment, always focused on making videos.
@ I'm retired early at 37..
@ There can be only one! I'm immortal also, but everyone is trying to chop off my head : (
You liked the city so much that you made another video about it :)
Very vibrant city,full of life ,with great arkitecture,just amazyng !!!
Awesome city! Amazing! Love the vibe. Not many people walking around.
Мало балончика с краской нужна больше )))
WOW! Def U need more Lviv on your channel!
Just want to say, that i like your videos the way they are...keep doing what u do!
Excellent video, Gabriel! All your videos are great!👍✌
Gabriel is the men .
17:00 I also think that this question: "why don't you visit Poland or Antarctica or NZ or Nebraska, bla, bla.. " is the silliest I have heard of. There are people that visit only one place outside their country every year. I know people here in Greece that only go to London or Italy every single year, simply because they like it and don't want to change that. p.s. Gabriel if you like Lviv you will like Krakow Poland as well, they look alike.
Lviv with its narrrow streets and picturesque backyards is a real gem) Hope you can come back to Ukraine again and visit more towns. Hint: the town of Ternopil is just three hours away from Lviv and really worth seeing! Just pick a warmer season:)
Ling Vital two hours and 10-20 minutes by train.
Thank you Gabriel! Amazing city! Beautiful ❤😊 stay safe 🙏
In Poland there are many more things to see than large cities, e.g. Zakopane and its surroundings, the Vistula town, Krakow with a magnificent old town, the Tatra Mountains, the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, the Beskids, the picturesque Kazimierz Dolny, the Białowieża Forest with Bisons, the green lungs of Poland Warmia and Mazury, and Podlasie, where the deepest Lake Hancza is located, and there is also the Baltic Sea coastline with the Lazy and Bukowa lakes separated from the sea by spit of land. Worth seeing is the Hel town, located on the northernmost peninsula of Poland. In winter, sleigh rides (Kulig) are organised in some regions of Poland (one or several horse-drawn sleighs with attached sleighs in the form of a retinue. This is a type of fun organised in the last week of the carnival. It has a long tradition in Poland), ended with bonfire and frying over fire sausages stuck on a stick. There is much more to it, here I presented a small part of it. Poland is a beautiful country with a rich tradition, history and culture. Worth to see! :)
All countries have much more to offer too.
You rock Gabe!
Thanks Paul.
Also, I really enjoy the less traveled countries. Been to most of the popular tourist places which are also heavily covered by Rick Steves type videos...
Nice city, not very turistic yet, so that's a good time to visit, I guess you visited Portugal once and you missed to visit amazing places.
What a beautiful City 👍🏻
Ah, Gabriel...I beg to differ. Let me preface this by saying I too am an extensive traveler. Difference with me and you is that I do not vlog and do not breeze through places, but choose to slow travel. I just spent a month in Lviv and wanted so much to tell you of all the underground secret places you missed while there. But my urge to comment today is in regards to Poland. Do you have some historical connection, as your choice to repeatedly not go there over the years when you have danced around it for years holds something to it. I am actually glad you haven't gone because it already has been taken over by swarms of tourists and you vlogging it would only increase that. Having said that, I chose to spend my entire Schengen Zone allotment time in Poland (am also a U.S. citizen-Oregon). That is how awesome I find Poland. Why do you believe it is like so many other European countries? It is cleaner (great mural art, but no graffiti) much more affordable, beautiful, has a history like none other. I could go on and on, but when you do eventually get there, go to Krakow first! And speak about the ways it is not like other European countries you have been too. You have been near Poland so many times, yet chose not to go there...something deeper going on that had you avoid going there. I wish you would go but not vlog about it as it is quickly turning into the sardine nature of Prague. Prague is crammed these days. Anyway, happy travels...
Rebecca R
Why an entire month ?
dziwne jest to że odwiedził polski Lwów na Ukrainie a twierdzi że Polska jest nieciekawa....
dopiero Stalin wysiedlił Polaków ze Lwowa... ukraiński Lwów to Ruś w polskim mieście w którym Rusini byli mniejszością... To miasto zamieszkiwali Polacy a z nimi wielu Żydów Ormian! Niemców.... przytłaczająca większość starej zabudowy nie ma nic wspólnego z Rusią czy Ukraińcami.... trwa tam niestety agresywna ukrainizacja miasta z fałszowaniem historii... wydaje się to w dzisiejszych czasach niemożliwe... a jednak... np mapa na starym murze to austriacki zabór Rzeczypospolitej... na tej mapie był Kraków... ciekawym porównaniem może być właśnie Kraków i Lwów... co zrobiła z miastem zachodniej cywilizacji jego siłowa ukrainizacja...
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Oooh, at 10:45 you said, "what the heck..." and the boys ran toward the laptop immediately! Hahaha. They are obsessed with that phrase recently :-D The architecture reminds me of Bratislava and many other cities in Slovakia and Czechia. Nice video!
Funny. "What the heck" is the milder version of "what the hell". A general statement of surprise or confusion.
@@GabrielTravelerVideosoh yeah! And I know even the third version! The boys are my teachers! Haha.
Lol, yeah I try not to use that one in my videos.
I appreciate your great thirst in travelling !👌✔🤗😍
4:53 Wow! People that have character!
What an insane place and an awesome video!! Ukraine is another one of those countries that flies under the radar which is such a shame, definitely on the bucket list after watching this 😍
G'day Gabe, that beard of yours is starting to look pretty cool.. are you going to grow it as long as Abe's beard?.. His was EPIC!!! (b4 he shaved it.. lol) ... LVIV looks like a cool place...thank you for the walking tour .... Safe Travels.. :)
Fascinating Place. Looks like a film set. Amazing Architecture with picturesque weatherd bits! On my list. Its great you dont follow the crowd.
alex west - I was thinking the same....that it would be a nice location in which to film a movie or show.
Beautiful city 😊
You have been near Lviv Opera theatre, some about 200 meters
Looks like a really interesting city.
I totally enjoy these strolling videos! It’s a nice way to get a beginning feel of a place. If you like enough, you can go back. As far as the viewers, we can do our own research. 👍🏾👍🏾
Talking about Poland, there so much more to see here than only the large cities Gabriel. But you're right, save it for a warmer time of a year :)
A lot of times he says - "I don't know where I am" or "I don't know what's going on".
A moronic comment...very clearly defined.
Top video. Classic Gabe. Thank you
Great video makes me want to book my trip to this city. If you ever come to Sydney Australia let me know . Thanks again for this video . Cheers Legend
If you still haven't decided where to go next, I want you to visit Japan. I think I can show you around in Kamakura city which is about 50km from Tokyo.
I spent a month there last year, but definitely plan to go back: ua-cam.com/video/YF9xGmvMWGE/v-deo.html
very nice place hope to visit there nxt yr
I went to Krakow this year it was great lots to do and see particularly beyond the city into the countryside I fancy poznan, Gdansk and Warsaw but I get that ultimately it may not appeal to you and you travel to places that wouldn't be to everyone else's taste. Poland was very touristy.
@mini polis Then Poland is full of fascists if they are like you!!
9:00 that's some Lesya Ukrainka poetry. You could see her at 200 grn. bill.
Excellent upload as always brother...Safe Travels..✌👍👍
Hi Gabriel, I wish could travel as much I believe there’s a certain richness obtained from traveling it’s an education you can’t quantify. It’s true your alone on these trips you can’t do everything it’s impossible and I’m sure your planning on seeing other things in the future but for now your seeing what I’m sure you have planned. I also believe the purpose of this traveling is also to get other people involved in traveling and seeing parts of the world that have yet to see and experience that richness with traveling anywhere.
good job, probably one of the best footage from Lviv on UA-cam
Excellent, thanks.
Gab it seems that people like to complain..keep up the good work