Cemetery Tour Lviv
† A walk on the dark side.
With a tonic to drown all sorrows
Our cemetery tour Lviv is a classic Lviv tour. Lychakiv, like Campo Verano in Rome and Highgate Cemetery in London, is a forboding yet enticing setting that spans over 40 hectares. It's an open-air museum where 350,000 people rest.
The difference is that Lviv, at the crossroads of so many warring nations for so long, has suffered and still suffers immeasurable tragedies, ergo the vast majority of those who rest at Lychakiv were military personnel. Lychakiv was also last exit for famous Poles and Ukrainians. You will learn about the many different symbols of death and honour the burial traditions of Lviv since 1786.
This tour is different in that we explore the oldest tombs and mausolea, pore over the most obscure inscriptions, and listen to arcane tales that lie behind the dark heart of Lychakiv. And we go one step further, as your guide at Lychakiv cemetery will be accompanied by Lilith, a regular visitor who has a guarded interest in the afterlife. She will share her thoughts and explain why Lychakiv is such a life-affirming place to be. We go beyond touring the cemetery per se, as is our wont.
Lviv has been called "City of Bones", Lychakiv the most famous necropolis in Europe - both descriptions are apt. On this tour you will understand why. While our old town is remarkable and beautiful, where there is beauty there are shadows. Lychakiv is not far away from our most loved landmarks.
LYCHAKIV WITH LILITH reveals tenebrous Lviv, led by a local historian expert Lviv tour guide with a Ukrainian Gothic girl. We include mausolea, memorials, and a tonic to drown all sorrows.
"We wanted to discover more about the history of Lviv cemetery as our first interest then explore modern Lviv, so we booked this tour hoping to kill a few birds with one stone. Ivan picked us up from our hotel and we arrived at Lychakiv by tram. It was a hot day so we took our time winding our way through the headstones, learning about some of them and passing by others. Then it was on to the Polish and Soviet war graves. All so interesting. A girl had already joined us, dressed head to toe in black without saying very much but we loved her image, it was perfect for what we were looking at. We sat down for a drink at the end and she proceeded to speak in perfect English. Amazing!"
24.07.2026
Lviv tour review by Carol and John from England who travelled with In Lviv Tours in July, 2026.