Town Hall

Want to take in the magnificent view over Ivano-Frankivsk from a bird's-eye perspective? Then it is worth climbing one of the city's tallest buildings — the Town Hall, located on the central Market Square. This is one of the most popular tourist spots, attracting visitors both with its history and with the chance to see everything around in a few minutes.

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The Town Hall was built in 1675, when there was a need to build an observation post from which hundreds of meters of underground passages extended. Some of them are still preserved today.

The modern town hall is the city's cultural center, where there is now a museum, and competitions, festivals, and holiday concerts are held constantly in the square itself.

Interesting facts:

• In the 17th century, the town hall was a kind of local court, where sentences were handed down to the convicted. One of the most notorious was the death sentence for a woman for witchcraft.
• In the past, there was a sculpture in front of the town hall in the form of a Jew holding a loaf of bread with the inscription “one grosz”. This showed how cheap bread was at the time.
• In 1905, the square in front of the town hall could hold all the city's residents.