Swiss Hotel: Luxury and Convenience with Parking in Lviv

Lviv, one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine, always attracts tourists with its rich history, architectural beauty and unique atmosphere. If you are planning a trip to this charming city, choosing the right hotel plays an important role in creating an unforgettable vacation experience. One of the best options for your stay in Lviv is the Swiss Hotel, which not only offers luxurious accommodation and exquisite service, but also provides convenient parking right in the city center.

Perfect Location
The Swiss Hotel is located in the very heart of Lviv, at 20 Knyazya Romana Street. This means that you will be within a few minutes' walk of the main tourist attractions, restaurants, cafes and shops. Rynok Square, Lviv Opera House, Arsenal, architectural monuments - all this is in the immediate vicinity. Despite its central location, the hotel is located in a quiet and peaceful place, which makes it an ideal choice for relaxation.

Parking: Luxury Convenience
One of the main advantages of the Swiss Hotel is the availability of its own parking lot. Parking a car in the center of Lviv can be a challenge due to the limited number of spaces and the high price of parking on the city streets. The hotel solves this problem by providing guests with a convenient opportunity to leave their car in their own parking lot upon arrival. This will not only save you time, but also money that you could spend on paid parking in other parts of the city.

Comfortable rooms
The Swiss Hotel offers a wide selection of comfortable rooms, including standard, junior suites and suites. Each room is tastefully decorated and has all the necessary amenities for a pleasant stay. With large beds, cozy interiors and modern amenities, you will feel right at home. In addition, you can use room service to make your stay even more comfortable.

Valentino Restaurant 
Guests of the Swiss Hotel have a great opportunity to taste delicious dishes in the "Valentino" restaurant, which is located right on the hotel's premises. The restaurant is famous for its exquisite cuisine and variety of dishes for every taste. However, the legendary "Napoleon" cake, which is prepared according to the best recipes and has become one of the symbols of Swiss Hotel Lviv, is a special treat.

The panoramic terrace on the roof of the Swiss Hotel Lviv
It is impossible not to mention the panoramic terrace of the Swiss Hotel. From this picturesque place you can enjoy a wonderful view of ancient Lviv. In the evenings, a special romantic atmosphere is created here, and you can spend time with pleasure watching the city from a bird's eye view

Module of Temporality (MOT) is a temporary cultural space in Kyiv by don’t Take Fake, created by an international team of about 100 people. This is our attempt to capture the fluidity of life and its time in art, to show the uncertainty while supporting the desire to keep living, creating, and fighting.

We want to show the world that even during war and under constant threats, Ukraine is not only rethinking its past and fighting for the present but also imagining the future, in particular the cultural one of the country. Another goal is to raise money to rebuild cultural institutions that have suffered as a result of Russian aggression.

The central event of MOT is a contemporary art exhibition, created especially for this project. 27 artists from 10 countries will present their works — canvases, sculptures, installations, and audiovisual works — on two floors of the construction, built of 27 containers-modules. Among them are both established and emerging artists.

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And if at home we usually limit ourselves to the usual combination of strawberries with cream and sugar, then the Valentino restaurant has created a whole menu based on strawberries, and the dishes in it - a variety. From strawberry salads to desserts and drinks - we offer you the most interesting.
Your taste buds will be out of scale! A panoramic view of the city, the taste of strawberries, the aroma of sparkling wine and the sounds of the violin will create an unforgettable atmosphere that will accompany you all summer! The chefs of the Valentino restaurant worked to make everyone like the strawberry page! Therefore, we definitely recommend to try and invite guests.

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Residents of the village of Rakovets in the Lviv district are asking to restore the abandoned church of St. Valentine. This is reported by the Society.

The parish church of St. Valentine was built in 1822-1856 and was already the fourth after the previous wooden churches on this site. In 1946, after the church was closed and the Poles left the village for their historical homeland, most of the interior was destroyed and burned. Some surviving images, in particular, the images of St. Valentine (brush by Otto Edward Borzemski, circa 1930) and the image of St. Joseph (brush by Władysław Rossowski, circa 1909), were later transferred from the church to the Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, where they are also kept now Since the 1980s, the temple has been empty and in a state of disrepair. Due to the fact that the roof was damaged and leaking, the rafters rotted and the vault completely collapsed, and in 2013 the roof completely collapsed along with the signature and the cross.

The Greek-Catholic community managed to partially support the temple with its own resources. In 2016, on the eve of the celebration of the 160-year anniversary of the Church of St. Valentine, the parishioners of the Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos cleared the premises of the church from construction and other debris, so that it was possible to enter the church and pray, and also arranged the territory adjacent to the church. Due to the efforts of the Greek-Catholic community, on the occasion of the anniversary - the 160th anniversary of the consecration of the temple, the relics of St. Valentine, the patron and patron of the temple, arrived from the Italian city of Terni, where the saint is buried.

However, now only the walls remain of the shrine, although until recently the building was covered with ceramic tiles. However, above the sacristy, the ceiling decorated with golden stars and the statue of the Mother of God, which was moved to a nearby church, were preserved.

There is a small community of Roman Catholics in Rakovka that is trying to save the church by rebuilding it, however, they need help.

Local resident Nataliya Jureliuk said that the temple was valuable for Poles. She has been interested in its history for 15 years, since she moved here from Lviv.

"Roman Catholics don't have altars, only icons are placed. The room where the priests changed clothes is a very interesting nuance: the roofs remained, once there were no microphones and sound, and it was necessary to convey to the people in the temple. And in Roman Catholic churches, they built a rise to the tribune, the priest would go there and the sound would spread throughout the church," noted Nataliya Jureliuk.

"Some may say that it is not the time, but it is not so. The Church of St. Valentine will be destroyed, just think about the name. At least once a year, but a lot of people will definitely come there, and this is a matter of the development of local communities, the development of tourism, it is possible to organize routes, bring tourists from Poland," — Andriy Ryshtun, researcher of the development of tourism in the Lviv region.

According to the deputy head of the Solonkiv Territorial Community, Andriy Zhidachko, after the end of the war, they plan to apply for a grant to restore the destroyed monument.

"The cross-border program, which is financed by the European Union and is also the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, they are also interested in it, we will submit applications there," says Andriy Zhidachak, deputy head of the Solonkiv Territorial Community.

One of the most common questions to tour guides and guides when choosing a tour to Lviv is: "Tell me, please, which hotel to choose in Lviv."

There are many hotels in Lviv that can be chosen by you according to different preferences: appearance, color, wallet, in the historical center of Lviv and a little further from the city center, a hotel that has: economy, standard, improved, luxury, royal suite.

If you stay in a hotel located in the historical center of Leva, you will be more convenient and closer to all the sights that are part of the UNESCO world heritage, in this part of the city there are many parks and squares for walking. You will not need to look for routes in trams, trolleybuses, minibuses to get to some shrine. You can always return to your hotel to rest, recuperate, have lunch, coffee and dessert, and then go on a city tour. It is also worth noting that the prices for rooms and services in hotels and restaurants may be slightly higher than in hotels far from the city center.

Hotels in the center of Lviv are located 15-20 minutes away by car from the main railway station of Lviv. This is quite close, considering that most luxury hotels are located in the central part of Lviv. We can conclude that it is not so far away, as it sometimes happens in large metropolises. Of course, in hotels located outside the city, the price is much lower than in hospitality establishments located in the center. Therefore, if you are looking for a more budget-friendly vacation, we recommend choosing them. If you are looking for a convenient location in the center with parking, a children's room, a delicious restaurant, a panoramic terrace, an elite beauty salon - we recommend choosing the Swiss Hotel. This hotel is located at 20 Knyazya Romana street and has an excellent transport connection for tourists who came on a tour to Lviv.

We would like to note that you can consider this hotel as an alternative to hostels and 3* hotels, because there are two standard-economy rooms here that are cheaper. They are for those guests who want to feel like they are in the luxury of a royal Swiss hotel but can't afford to pay for a royal suite, for example. The rooms of this category have the same amenities as other better categories: standard, improved, junior suite, deluxe, royal suite, the only thing is that the area of this room is smaller than the above categories.

Numbers. Each hotel may have its own classification of rooms, but we will tell you about the categories of rooms in the "Swiss" hotel: standard-economy, standard, superior, junior suite, deluxe, royal suite.

"Standard-Economy" accommodation:

Standard Economy rooms are ideal for guests who want to live comfortably, but for less money. Economy Standards are smaller in size, but the equipment of the rooms is the same as in the Standard rooms. The rooms are equipped with one double bed or two single beds. Configuration: one room, bathroom, large double bed, desk and chair, classic wardrobe.

Area 16 sq.m.

"Standard" accommodation:

"A home away from home" in historic Lviv. Tasteful rest for a couple or two friends in the Standard room in the oasis of comfort of the Swiss hotel. Bright and spacious rooms offer a view of the old town or the inner courtyards. Configuration: one room, bathroom, large double bed or two separate beds, desk and chair, classic wardrobe.

Area 21 sq.m.

"Superior" accommodation:

The luxury of rest. A comfortable and cozy Superior room is an ideal choice for guests traveling on business. In this room you will be able to relax in peace and quiet. Configuration: one room, bathroom, large double bed or two separate beds, desk and chair, classic wardrobe.

Area 28 sq.m.

"Junior suite" accommodation:

A comfortable Junior Suite with a large area is ideal for business and leisure. This is a heavenly corner for relaxation and recuperation in a peaceful atmosphere. A spacious bedroom and lounge area will allow you to make the most of modern amenities in a classic environment. This room type is great for longer stays. Configuration: one room, separate sitting area, bathroom, large double bed, desk and chair, classic wardrobe.

Area 43 sq.m.

"Luxury Suite" accommodation:

Feel the maximum comfort possible in one of our luxury suites. Made in bold and sophisticated colors, the Suite room combines work space with a place to relax. The design solution is based on a special creative idea - a classic setting combined with modern technologies. Configuration: two rooms, bedroom, living room, bathroom, large double bed, desk and chair, classic wardrobe, sofa.

Area 33 sq.m.

"Royal Suite" accommodation:

The largest room in the hotel, which consists of a spacious living room with a dining area for 4 people, a luxurious bedroom, and a bathroom with a modern interior. 2 hours in the Roman steam room are included in the price of accommodation.

Area 52 sq.m.

Usually, the rooms are designed for 2 people, but there are also 3-bed and 4-bed rooms, although there are much fewer of them.

Here is a short tour of the "Switzerland" hotel and its rooms. You have the opportunity to make sure that this hotel really has rooms for every taste, for every need and with different prices. My colleagues and I at Swiss Hotel Lviv will be happy to pick up that tour to Lviv? the accommodation, guide, tour guide that will suit you. We will also help you to celebrate your birthday in Lviv, wedding anniversary, engagement, reception on the First Panoramic Terrace of the city of Lviv, which is located on the roof of the "Schweitsarskyi" hotel.

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All nutritionists emphasize: lunch is the most important meal of the day, it should never be skipped or eaten on the go. Lunch should make up approximately 40 percent of the food consumed for the day, because it is in the middle of the day that all vitamins, minerals and trace elements are best absorbed. Hotel "Swiss" in Lviv recommends establishments in Lviv where you can have a delicious lunch.

Valentino Restaurant in Lviv

Where: str. Nyzhankivskogo, 20

When: 12:00-15:00, except Sat - Sun

How much: UAH 250

Valentino is a restaurant of Italian cuisine, with an elegant interior and refined atmosphere. It is located in the center of Lviv, not far from Rynok Square. The highlight of the restaurant is the terrace with a panoramic view of the ancient city. Banquets, romantic dinners, corporate events or business meetings are often held here. The restaurant will be a great place for lunch with friends or colleagues. The list of dishes for a business lunch includes: salad, first and second courses of your choice. For example, it can be Caesar salad, pumpkin cream soup, spinach and chicken strudel, or Italian pasta. You choose from the options on the menu according to your taste.

 

Cloud no. 7 Panorama

Where: Sq. Soborna, 14 (Roksolana shopping center, 7th floor)

When: 12:00-16:00, except Saturday and Sunday

Cloud no.7 Panorama - the establishment is located on the roof of the "Roksolana" shopping center in the center of Lviv, the location has a summer terrace with a panoramic view of Lviv. Here you can organize business meetings, dinners with a loved one, various kinds of celebrations. The restaurant's menu includes dishes from European, Asian, Ukrainian, Japanese and fusion cuisines. Here they prepare interesting author's cocktails and a wide wine list. The establishment also prepares business lunches - every day, you can order a lunch set, which includes the first and second courses, a salad and a drink.

 

Hrushevsky Cinema & Jazz

Where: Ave. Shevchenko, 28

When: 12:00-16:00, except Sat - Sun

Hrushevskyi Cinema & Jazz - a restaurant in the central part of Lviv with a history It combines the atmosphere of real music, you can come to watch movies, to art exhibitions and, of course, to delicious cuisine and service. If you are looking for a place for a business lunch with colleagues, or just decided to have lunch in a nice atmosphere - come here. The establishment offers business lunches, which include a salad, first and main dishes and a side dish. The establishment also has a children's menu.

10 inspiring movies!
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The team of the Hotel "Swiss" has prepared for you a selection of "10 inspiring films from the Hotel "Swiss". Let's wait for spring looking to the future, drawing inspiration from the past and with faith in the victory of good over evil, light over darkness!

Inspirational movies:

1. 1+1 (2011);

"1+1" (fr. Intouchables - "Intouchables") is a 2011 French comedy drama based on real events about a successful aristocrat Philippe, who ends up in a wheelchair due to an accident and takes a black towel as his assistant. - Drissa. The main roles are performed by François Cluse and Omar Sy, who was awarded the national César award for this acting work. The premiere in France took place on November 2, 2011.

In September 2012, France sent The Untouchables to compete for the Oscar statuette in the Best Foreign Language category, but the film never made the shortlist. Despite this, the picture was awarded nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards in the same category.

2. Healer Adams (1998);

"Healer Adams" (English: Patch Adams) is a biographical tragicomedy directed by Tom Shedyak, based on the life of the famous doctor and hospital clown Patch Adams. In the year of its release, the film was not recognized by critics or by Adams himself, but it was successful at the box office, and also aroused interest in the personality of Adams.

In a state of deep depression, Hunter Patch Adams ends up in a psychiatric clinic. But the doctors cannot help him, he is saved by the patients. They make him look at his life from the side, look at her with a laugh. By example, Adams is convinced that laughter can work miracles and heal. Laughter is the best medicine, and on several occasions, Patch's know-how has truly saved people.

3. Togo (2019);

Togo is a 2019 American drama film released on the streaming service Disney+. The events of the film revolve around the great charity race of 1925. In the center of the plot is the doctor Leonard Seppala, who has to save the city of Nome from the epidemic, going on a dangerous journey to get medicine together with a Siberian husky nicknamed Togo.

The film was directed by Erickson Kor, produced by Kim Zubie, and written by Tom Flynn. Starring: Willem Dafoe, Julianne Nicholson, Christopher Heyerdahl, Michael Heston, Michael McElhatton, Jamie McShane, Michael Grayes, Sean Benson and others. The premiere of the film took place on December 20, 2019.

4. In pursuit of happiness (2006);

The Pursuit of Happyness is an American biographical film directed by Gabriele Muccino, released in 2006. The tape tells about a man who went from a poor sales representative to a successful broker. Stephen Conrad's screenplay is based on Chris Gardner's memoir of the same name, co-written with Quincy Troup.

The action of the film begins in 1981 in San Francisco (California). Linda and Chris Gardner live in a small apartment with their son Christopher. Chris Sr. spent all the family savings on a franchise selling portable densitometers. These scanning devices provided slightly clearer images than X-ray machines, but most of the doctors Chris saw thought the devices were too expensive. Linda worked a dead-end job in the laundry room of a local hotel. The tension in the relationship grew in proportion to the accumulation of late payments for housing and bills. Chris often parked his car in unsolved places in order to make it to meetings on time, and after parking, numerous fine tickets remained unpaid. Eventually, Lindy gets fed up with this life and moves away. Chris insists that his son stay with him. After long talks, Christopher stays with his father, and Linda decides to leave to work in New York, where a better job awaits her.

Chris accepts an unpaid internship at the brokerage firm Dean Witter Reynolds, which promises employment to only one out of twenty interns based on the results of the internship. Lack of money and no densitometers to sell puts Chris in a bind, and as a result he and his son become homeless. Forced to sleep in a subway toilet, Chris and his son line up at the end of each day at a Methodist church shelter in an attempt to get a place to sleep peacefully. Sometimes they manage to get into a shelter, sometimes they stay on the street. Doing everything possible for his son, despite all the difficult circumstances, Chris finds the strength to complete the internship program and become the only intern the firm will hire.

As a result, Chris got a job, and then in 1987 founded his brokerage firm. After selling his stake in 2006, he earned millions of dollars.

5. The Bucket List (2007);

The Bucket List (English: "The Bucket List", literally "The list from the garbage bucket" - the name of the list of recent things, given in the title of the picture, beats the euphemism kick the bucket) - a 2007 film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Justin Zeckham.The story centers on two terminal cancer patients (Nicholson and Freeman) who want to fulfill all their wishes before they die.

Billionaire and owner of a hospital chain, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), once said that there would be no solitary confinement in his institutions. Now, having entered his own hospital with a hopeless diagnosis, he is forced to share a ward with Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), a simple black car mechanic, although very well-read and erudite. Carter is the head of a large and friendly family, he is surrounded by the attention of loved ones who sincerely love him. Misanthrope Edward is visited only by his personal assistant. Faced with the need to somehow communicate with each other, the comrades gradually grow closer to each other through misfortune.

One day, Chambers comes up with the idea of making a list of what he would like to do in the time he has left (bucket list, which is played in the name of the film). After learning that he has less than a year to live, Carter throws away the yellow paper sheet with the list, but the next morning it is found in the trash can by Cole, who is also predicted by doctors to have no more than six months to live. Having carefully studied the list compiled by his neighbor, Edward offers to realize his dreams together. He adds to the list various, in his opinion, "fun things" (for example, skydiving) and promises to fully fund all activities. Despite his wife's protests, Chambers agrees.

The two of them travel the world, visiting the Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, the Himalayas and gradually waiting on the yellow sheet point by point. At the top of the Cheops pyramid, Edward tells Carter that he had a fight with his daughter years ago when he hired people to "take care" of a man who was beating her. After returning to his homeland, Chambers tries to persuade Cole to meet his daughter, but he just loses his temper.

Chambers returns to his family, but unfortunately not for long - the same evening, after a family dinner, he is rushed to the hospital, where he dies on the operating table. After that, Edward, fulfilling the posthumous request of a friend, still reconciles with his daughter and sees his granddaughter for the first time (crossing out another line: "Kissing the most beautiful girl in the world"). At Chambers' funeral, Cole admits that although they hadn't known each other just three months ago, the last months of Carter's life had been the best months of his, Edward's, life. Only here, seeing off Carter, Cole thinks he has the right to cross off the penultimate wish on the list: "To do good to a stranger."

Edward himself dies in a few months. In the film's finale, Cole's assistant, carrying out his will, climbs the highest mountain in the North American Cordillera to leave a coffee can with his boss's ashes at the top. Placing it in the casket next to the urn already there with Chambers' ashes, he looks around at the majestic snow-capped peaks around him and crosses out the only remaining item on the sheet of yellow paper: "To witness something truly grand."

6. Seven souls (2008);

"Seven Pounds" (English: Seven Pounds) is a feature film, a drama directed by Gabriele Muccino. Movie tagline: Seven Names. Seven Strangers. One Secret" (in the Russian box office: "They do not know each other. They have different destinies. But they have one secret"). The world premiere took place on December 19, 2008.

The film begins with the main character calling 911 about an accident, a suicide. He calls himself a victim...

Two years before the events, Tim Thomas (Will Smith) (through most of the film he introduces himself as "Ben Thomas") is involved in a car accident that kills seven people, including his fiancee, Sarah Jenson (Robin Lee).

A year after the accident, having given up a career as a space station engineer, Tim donates a lung share to his brother (Michael Abo), an IRS employee (Internal Revenue Service, US tax office). Six months later, he donates part of his liver to a child welfare worker named Holly (Judienne Elder). After that, he starts searching for the next candidates for receiving donor organs. He finds George (Bill Smitrowicz), a youth hockey coach, and donates a kidney to him, then donates his bone marrow to a boy named Nicole (Quentin Kelly).

Two weeks before his death, he contacts Holly and asks her if she knows of anyone else who deserves help. She points to Connie Tepoz (Elpidia Carrillo), whose roommate keeps beating her up. Tim moves out of his house and into a local motel, taking with him a tank of jellyfish. One night, beaten up, Connie dares to call Tim, who gives her the keys and title deeds to his oceanfront home. She takes her two children and moves into this house to start a new life and give her children a chance.

Stealing his brother Ben's ID and posing as his brother, Tim screens candidates for the last two donations. The first is Ezra Turner (Woody Harrelson), a blind butcher who plays the piano. Ben calls Ezra Turner and acts cocky, trying to see how quickly he can be pissed off. Ezra remains unmoved and Tim decides that he is a worthy candidate.

The next candidate is the manager of the nursing home, but upon inspection turns out to be a scoundrel, unworthy of Tim's help.

Then, under the guise of an audit for a $56,000 tax lien, he hooks up with Emily Poza (Rosario Dawson), a greeting card entrepreneur who needs a heart transplant and has a rare blood type. He spends time with her and her dog, weeding her garden and repairing her rare Heidelberg printing press; they fall in love with each other. Emily's condition worsens. After the deterioration, Emily is transferred to the first group - she is given a pager that should beep when there is a chance to receive a donor heart while standing in line.

Ben tracks Tim down at Emily's house as he and Emily finish a romantic dinner. He demands that Tim return his IRS ID and car keys. Tim returns home and makes love to Emily. To avoid meeting his brother, he runs away from home and meets with Emily's doctor about the final prognosis of the girl's condition. The doctor says that the chance of finding a suitable donor is no more than five percent.

Having finally made up his mind, Tim returns to the motel. He fills the bathtub with ice water to preserve his organs, writes a note instructing rescuers and, sinking into the bathtub, calls an ambulance, then commits suicide by releasing a deadly poisonous box jellyfish into the bathtub.

His friend Dan (Barry Pepper), as the executor of the will, makes sure that Tim's organs are transplanted to Emily and Ezra. Ezra Turner gets the cornea and Emily gets the heart. Later, Emily comes to a concert in the park, where the sighted Ezra is playing the piano and he guesses that it is her.

7. 127 hours (2010);

"127 Hours" (English 127 Hours) is a feature film directed by Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who previously worked together on the film "Slumdog Millionaire". The film is based on Aron Ralston's book Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The picture was released on the US cinema screens on November 5, 2010.

The film tells the true story of climber and canyoneer Aron Ralston, who in 2003 spent almost six days in a mountain gorge after his hand was trapped by a stone weighing more than 300 kg. Before going on a trip, he didn't tell anyone where exactly he was going. When the little water and food he had with him ran out, he amputated his brush, which allowed him to get out of the canyon and find the hikers, who called a rescue helicopter.

8. Life of Pi (2012);

"Life of Pi" (eng. Life of Pi) is an adventure drama directed by Ang Lee in 3D format. The tape is based on the novel of the same name by Yann Martel, published in 2001. The film stars Indian budding actor Suraj Sharma in the lead role.

The premiere took place at the New York Film Festival on September 28, 2012. It was released in wide distribution in the USA on November 21, 2012, in Russia on January 1, 2013. The American Film Institute named the film one of the ten best films of the year, and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the film with 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture of the Year.

An Indian man named Pi communicates with the writer Yann Martel, to whom he tells his incredible story. His father named him after the swimming pool in Paris Piscine Molitor. As a child, he was interested in several religions, and at once professed Hinduism (Vaishnavism) with Vishnu, Catholicism with Christ, and Islam with Allah. At school, because of the ridicule of his classmates over his unusual name Pisin, he decides to call himself Pi after the letter of the Greek alphabet. During the time spent at the summer camp, he prepared and on the first day of the school year presented his name to his classmates as the mathematical number π, even writing down several hundred signs of this number. When he was 15 years old, his father, being the director of the zoo, announced that the family would have to leave India, taking half of the animals with them and sell them in Canada to start a new life. Pi tried to dissuade the family from leaving their native home, but to no avail.

The sea journey begins with a Japanese cargo ship. On the fourth day after docking in Manila, the ship gets caught in a storm. Pi woke up at the noise and got up on deck. Excited by the storm, he shouted: “Stronger! Stronger!". Immediately after that, an alarm sounded, a wave carried several sailors from the deck into the ocean, the holds began to fill with water. A couple of sailors caught Pi and, promising to find his parents, threw him into a boat that already had a cook in it. But then the zebra jumped into the boat, and the cook fell overboard, and the boat became unhooked and flew down. A big wave overwhelmed the ship, and it went to the bottom. Pi, hanging from the boat and seeing the ship, which was still illuminated by lanterns, shouted: "Forgive me! Mother! Father! Rave! It's my fault!" After the storm subsides, Pi examines his "ark." The boat contained some of the animals from the ship: a hyena, a zebra that broke its leg when it fell, an orange orangutan that swam up on a bunch of bananas, and a Bengal the tiger Richard Parker (his name is "Thirsty" and the name of hunter, passed, hunter, passed, hunter, passed, zoo, passed, passed, passed, passed, and hunter, passed, passed, passed, passed, appeared on 100%). ). The hungry hyena kills the zebra and then Orange, who stood up for Pi. At the end of these showdowns, the tiger jumps out from under the harness and kills the hyena. Pi is left alone in the boat with the tiger. The struggle for survival begins.

Pi builds a small raft, on which he sinks life provisions and all sorts of useful things, and fastens it with a rope to the boat. While swimming, Pi tried to win back the boat. At first he tried to show his authority and even "noticed" half of the boat, but nothing came of it. Then he started fishing and feeding Richard Parker. Once Pi had sunk all the galettes from the lifeboat's arsenal onto his raft, but at night, while playing with the bioluminescent plankton in the water, he disturbed a whale, which overturned the raft, leaving the vegetarian Pi without food. He managed to save himself from starvation during the raid of volatile fish. One of the large predatory fish that prey on the volatile fell into the boat. Out of hunger, Pi stole a fish from Richard Parker and ate it himself. On their way, they meet fish, jellyfish, whales and a mysterious island with meerkats, beautiful, predatory and insidious, like a Venus flytrap; "What I gave during the day, I took back at night" (life). As Pi explained, God gave him rest, but sent a sign that he should continue his journey (Pi found in a flower the tooth of a person who remained on the island, died and was digested). After arriving at the coast of Mexico, Pi tiredly dragged the boat aground and fell on the warm, soft sand ("the cheek of God" - as Pi put it). The emaciated tiger jumped over Pi, shook himself, approached the rainforest, stopped, looked there and ran into it. Pi hoped that before that, Richard Parker would turn or in some other way "put an end" to their relationship. He is later found by people, and in the hospital where he was placed, representatives of the Japanese ship-owning company who came spoke to him, but they did not believe his story. Pi then told them another, more plausible, but grimmer version of what had happened. There were no animals in the boat, and the struggle for survival unfolded between Pi (Richard), his mother (Orange), an injured sailor nicknamed "The Happy Buddhist" (Zebra) and a mean Frenchman from the ship (Hyena). The plot is very similar to the previous one. The sailor's leg began to rot, and the cook killed him, dried the meat and ate it. While fishing, Pi could not hold the turtle and the coc wanted to kill him, but his mother interceded and told Pi to jump on the raft (built by coc for fishing), but when Pi looked back from the raft, his mother had already killed him. After that, Pi "did to the coke what he had done to the sailor." And Pi drifted on the boat alone.

At the end of the film, Pi offers the writer a story to choose from. The writer chooses a story with a tiger, and Pi gives it to Yann.

9. Mountains between us (2017);

"The Mountain Between Us" (English: The Mountain Between Us) is an American adventure drama directed by Hani Abu-Assad, adapted from the book of the same name by Charles Martin. The world premiere of the film took place on September 9, 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Released in US theaters on October 6, 2017.

Doctor Ben Bass and journalist Alex Martin hire a small plane to fly from Idaho to Denver because regular flights are canceled due to bad weather. She is in a hurry for her own wedding in New York, and he is in Baltimore for surgery. As they fly over the mountains, the pilot has a seizure and the plane crashes. Ben, Alex and the pilot's dog survive the crash, but Alex has a broken leg. Ben offers to wait for help inside the plane, they have some food, shelter and fuel for the fire. He climbs to the top of the mountain to survey the surroundings and almost falls back into the abyss. Meanwhile, the plane finds the cougar, Alex shoots it with a flare. A week after the collapse, Alex insists that it is necessary to stop waiting for rescue and go down into the valley. Although Ben is against it, she gets off the plane while he sleeps and leaves alone. Ben soon catches up with her and they slowly descend to tree level. After several days of travel, they find an empty hunting lodge. Next to him, Alex falls under the ice on the lake, but Ben saves her. Since she is very weak and dehydrated, he makes her a drip from what he can find in the house. They recover for a few days and become closer. Although it's still hard for Alex to go, they start to move on. As they both almost give up and fall asleep in the snow, the dog wakes Ben up and he sees a sawmill in the distance. They hurry in that direction, but on the way Ben falls into a trap. Alex is desperately trying to find help. At the hospital, Ben visits Alex, but her fiance has already arrived.

Alex and Ben return to their lives. Ben takes the dog and goes to London. Alex tries to contact Ben, but he ignores her. She sends him photos she took in the mountains, and he decides to contact her. During the meeting, it turns out that Alex canceled the wedding. And although at first she says that their time is wasted, after a brief separation, Alex and Ben decide to reunite.

10. At 6 feet deep (2017).

6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain is a 2017 drama film. The film tells the true story of Eric Lemarck, who got lost in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains and survived there for 8 days. The translation of the film assumes an error, in fact it is not about the depth in feet, but about the temperature of -6° Fahrenheit (-20°C), at which the main action takes place.

After the end of a brilliant sports career, hockey player Eric Lemarck can no longer live without adrenaline. Now he finds drive in drugs and snowboarding. When the ski patrol in the Mammoth Mountains (California) closes all runs due to an impending snowstorm, Lemarck decides to make one last descent and ends up trapped and lost in the mountains.

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Gastro evening "Ukrainian traditional cuisine and wine"

On Sunday (February 5), we invite you to a gastro evening at the "Valentino" restaurant!
🍷 The sommelier prepared wonderful Ukrainian wines from our wine list.

And the talented chef will prepare dishes that will be perfectly combined with wine:
– Traditional Polish "Matsyk" - Igriste, Grande Vallee;
– Sycamore pie – White dry, Aligote, Biologist;
– Vereshchaka – Dry Red, Villa Tinta, Odessa Black;
- Lviv cheese - Gold de Sharant, Shabo.

• When: February 5, 6:00 p.m
• Where: "Valentino" restaurant, str. Nyzhankivskogo, 20
• How much: UAH 780.

You can book a ticket by calling:
+38 (097) 235-67-77
+38 (032) 235-67-66

In Lviv, a diesel generator is operating at the Shveitsarsky hotel.
In the last few weeks, there have been partial power outages in Ukraine. And given the threat of further attacks on the country's energy facilities, there is a risk of longer blackouts.

The hotel in Lviv is equipped with two independent transformer substations, so there are currently no power outages. So visitors, guests of the hotel can rest, work and use electrical devices without interruption, thanks to the generator, backup sockets will work in every hotel room, as well as in the Valentino restaurant, and critical lighting of work and common areas. We also have a convenient shelter.

We have a generator for video surveillance cameras and Internet equipment, in the event of a power outage, the equipment must work in normal mode until the centralized power supply is fully restored.

You can book a room by calling:

+38(032)240-37-77

+38(096)240-37-77

Planning a trip to Lviv? Rynok Square, the Opera House, the Potocki Palace are a kind of masthev for tourists. But Lviv opens something new every time - experiences, stories, emotions.

We have prepared a selection of alternative places to visit, which will definitely suit both experienced travelers and beginners.

• Memorial of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
• Powder tower
• Monastery of St. Onuphrius
• Shevchenko Grove
• House of Scientists
• Stryi park
• Church of Saints Peter and Paul
• area of Koliivshchyna
• St. George's Cathedral
• Frank Park

Read more on the website at this link: 10 alternative places to visit in Lviv

YAROSLAWA YAROSLAVSKA

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