Market Square (Lviv)
49°50′29″N 24°01′53″E / 49.841466°N 24.031265°E
Rynok Square (Ukrainian: Площа Ринок, romanized: Ploshcha Rynok, Polish: Rynek we Lwowie, German: Ring) is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The market square was laid out as the central square of the new city of Lviv, founded in the mid-14th century by the Polish king Casimir III the Great to the south of the old Lviv.
The square is rectangular in shape, with measurements of 142 metres by 129 metres and with two streets radiating out of every corner. In the middle there was a row of houses, with its southern wall made by the Town Hall. However, when in 1825 the tower of the Town Hall burned, all adjacent houses were demolished and a new hall, with a 65-metre tower, was built in 1835 by architects J. Markl and F. Trescher.
Around the square, there are 44 tenement houses, which represent several architectural styles, from Renaissance to Modernism. In the four corners, there are fountains—wells from 1793, probably designed by Hartman Witwer. The sculptures represent four Greek mythological figures: Neptune, Diana, Amphitrite and Adonis. In front of the Town Hall, there was a pillory. In 1998 the Market Place, together with the historic city center of Lviv, was recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site.