The city of L“viv, found­ed in the late Mid­dle Ages, was a flour­ish­ing admin­is­tra­tive, reli­gious and com­mer­cial cen­tre for sev­er­al cen­turies. The medieval urban topog­ra­phy has been pre­served vir­tu­al­ly intact (in par­tic­u­lar, there is evi­dence of the dif­fer­ent eth­nic com­mu­ni­ties who lived there), along with many fine Baroque and lat­er build­ings.