Lviv district is located in the central part of Lviv region, on the historical and ethnographic lands of Galicia and Opillia. The Western Bug River flows within the district.
The administrative center of Lviv district is the regional center - the city of Lviv, which is considered the informal cultural capital and the main tourist center of Ukraine. The architectural ensemble of the historic center of Lviv is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Its pearls are a complex of Renaissance buildings on Rynok Square with Lviv City Hall, the Cathedral (Latin) Cathedral, the Dominican Church, St. George's Cathedral, the Potocki Palace, the Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Krushelnytska, etc. Other important historical and cultural monuments of ...