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Latin Cathedral

A Gothic cathedral beside the square, with the Boim Chapel's black carved facade next door.

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Open
Every day
Price
Free; a small fee for the Boim Chapel
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Cathedral Square 1, LvivDirections
Getting There
Just off the southwest corner of Rynok Square.

Why Go

Built from 1360 to 1481, the Roman Catholic cathedral has a baroque interior of painted vaults and side altars. Beside it, the Boim Chapel, built for a merchant family in the early 1600s, is covered from top to bottom in stone carvings blackened by age.

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