Lviv implementing a project to refresh historical areas ahead of UEFA EURO 2012. Training courses on restoring historical doors (bramas) have started in Lviv. The trainings are conducted by German experts dealing with joinery.
In the course of ten days they will be demonstrating, in practice, restoration of two entrance doors on the renowned Rynok Square in Lviv downtown being a typical example of the local architecture of the late 18th – early 19th centuries, including that of classicism. A second stage of the trainings envisages elaboration of a long-term program to help rehabilitate the bramas in association with the German Bureau of Technical Cooperation (GTZ) that will co-fund the renovation works. In general, it is also planned to improve the state of historical monuments in the ancient part of Lviv inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List. As reported, the German government has decided to implement in Lviv a project entitled УRevitalization of Historical Areas’ in frames of UEFA EURO 2012 preparations. On May 13, 2009, UEFA selected Kyiv and preliminarily Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkiv as host cities for the UEFA EURO 2012 European Football Championship. Ukraine and Poland have been chosen as co-hosts for UEFA EURO 2012.