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The Market Square (Ukrainian: Площа Ринок, Ploscha Rynok) in Lviv, Ukraine is the city's main square.
It was layed out in the 14th century, after king Casimir III of Poland granted the city Magdeburg law in 1356, rectangular in shape, 142 m by 129 m, with two mutually perpendicular streets coming out of every corner to the city walls and a town hall located in the middle.
The original Gothic surrounding of the Market Square was destroyed by a fire in 1527 and rebuilt in the style of the Renaissance. The 44 buildings standing around the square today represent architectural styles ranging from Renaissance to Modernism. The corners of the the square were in the late 18th century decorated by four fountains with Empire sculptures of Neptune, Diana, Adonis and Amphitrite.
A number of note worthy building stand along the square: