The Sapieha Palace in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 is a Chateauesque

Châteauesque

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 two-storey mansion dating from the 1870s. It is lightly screened from the road by a wrought-iron grill

Grillwork

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. The house's first owner was Prince Adam Sapieha, a pioneer of railway building in Galicia.

After the September Campaign, the palace was taken over by the Soviet state and housed a school

School

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until a restoration campaign was launched in the 1990s. At present it is home to a regional society for preservation of historical and architectural monuments.