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take any bus (23uah, 1½ hours, around 25 daily) heading towards Brody from Lviv's Bus
Station No 2. Alternatively, travel agencies in Lviv organise day trips.
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Drohobych
03244 / POP 77,600
Once home to Jewish-Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz, Drohobych is of most in-
terest to his fans, who might hope (possibly in vain) to recognise the town from his ma-
gic -realist novella
The Street of Crocodiles
(1934). Otherwise this quiet provincial town
is mildly diverting if not gripping. There are plenty of historical monuments and some
faded Polish and Austro- Hungarian homes. The leafy
Bandera Park
above the town
square is lovely today, but it was around here that a vengeful German SS officer shot
Schulz in 1942.
Indeed, while up to 40% of Drohobych's 35,000 inhabitants were once Jewish, only a
handful remain. The truly enormous
New Synagogue
(1865) was a Soviet furniture store
and has long lain derelict. You pass the building on the left when making the 10- to
15-minute walk from the bus station into town.
Frescoes that Schulz painted for his Nazi 'protector' in WWII were, controversially,
taken to Jerusalem's Yad Veshem Holocaust Museum in 2001. But the town schedules a
Schulz festival every second November (including in 2014), has plans for a museum and
displays a memorial plaque on vul Y Drohobycha.
The town lies some 80km southwest of Lviv.
Marshrutky
(29uah, 1½ hours, at least
hourly) depart from Lviv's Bus Station No 8 (in front of Lviv's train station). In Dro-
hobych other frequent
marshrutky
(20 minutes) take you the 10km to Truskavets.
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Truskavets
03247 / POP 30,000
Truskavets is an old-fashioned spa town that in another country and another time might
have given the Czech Republic's celebrated spa town Karlovy Vary a run for its money.
Unfortunately, that sort of rivalry is a long way off, but the town still makes a fun day
trip from Lviv. Its heart is the mineral water
buvyet
( , spring) in the central park, where
locals supposedly once came to drink from the fountain of good health.
