Hills of Lviv

The hills of Lviv belong to three geographical systems - Boring , Gologoram and Lviv Upland (plateau) . Beyond the northern outskirts of the city, ridges of the Hilly (Passive) Pozhuzhii begin.

View of Castle Hill in winter

Kortumova mountain and the park of the same name , view from the mound of the Union of Lublin

Vinnikovsky forest near Lake Vinnikovsky

• Castle Hill is the most famous among the Lviv hills. It has a TV tower, the spire of which is the highest point in the city. The High Castle park is located on Castle Hill with a viewing platform on the mound of the Union of Lublin . On this mountain was the princely High Castle , from which today there are only ruins.
• Bald Mountain in the past was located northeast of Zamkova Street. Over the past centuries has been destroyed by sand pits.
• Lion Mountain is located southeast of the High Castle. Sand quarries were actively exploited on the mountain, however, thanks to the decisive protests of the historian Isidor Sharanevich , quarries on this mountain were eliminated as early as the 19th century. Now its top, on which the cross is mounted, is located at an altitude of 388 meters above sea level. Other names for the mountain are Peschanaya, Lysaya, Knyazheskaya, "Calvaria", and in the XV — XVII centuries. Lviv petty bourgeois called it Stephen’s mountain.
• Zmeeva (Wolf) Mountain rises above the building of the current regional children's hospital on Lysenko street .
• The Znesensky hills are located west of the Serpent Mountain and stretch to the Kaiserwald mountain, which was periodically cut down for heating during the wars, and then again planted with new trees. The highest point is located at an altitude of 377 meters above sea level. In the past, these hills were also called Stone Mountains, since there were many quarries and sand pits on their slopes.
• Mount Khom (Khomets) is located northwest of the Znesensky hills.
• Chetovy (Devil's) rocks is located in Vinnikovsky forest park . It is the highest peak on the outskirts of Lviv - 414 m above sea level.
• The boring hills within Lviv are located west of the Castle Hill, beyond the Poltva valley. Over the former old Jewish cemetery (now the Krakow Market ) rises the Mount of Executions (Gitsleva Gora, Mount of Justice, 339 m above sea level). On its slope there is an obelisk in honor of the participants in the uprising in 1846 executed by Theofil Wisniewski and Joseph Kapustinsky. A ridge stretches from this mountain, the highest point of which is Kortumova mountain above the Yanovsky cemetery (379 m above sea level). Two to three meters above it is another Bald Mountain, which is located in the Bryukhovichsky Forest .
• Lviv Upland ( Lviv Plateau ). Lviv Sredmestye is located in a basin (250-260 m above sea level), where the Poltva River and its tributaries flow. The hollow has a narrow exit to the north: between Castle Hill and Mount Kaznya, and it is surrounded by a horseshoe hills on the edges of the plateau - the Lviv Upland, which rises to 350 meters above sea level. The main European watershed , which separates the Poltva valley from the basins of the rivers Vereshchitsy , Scherek , Zubra , Davydovka , passes through this hill and Rastochye through the city. Inside the basin there are several hills. Three of them - Kalicha Gora, Vronovskiy Mountains (екаembek, 325 m above sea level), Pelchinskaya (Poznan, 326 m above sea level) - form the Citadel complex. To the east of it, in the quadrangle of the streets of Rustaveli , Valashskaya, Tyutyunnikov, Arkhipenko, is Mount Skelka, east - Mount St. Yatsk (334 m above sea level). To the north rises the hill of the Lychakiv cemetery (the highest point is 359 m above sea level). Closer to the city center, between the street. Pekarskaya and Levitsky , rises Mount Shumanovka (321 m above sea level). Around the basin rise the hills of Verkhny Lychakovo , Pogulianka , Snopkov , Sofievka , Vulka, Kastelyovka. The most famous of them is Svyatoyurskaya Gora with the Greek Catholic Cathedral and the Metropolitan Chambers on top (the height of the terrace is 321 m above sea level).