{"id":46246,"date":"2026-04-03T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46246"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:49:13","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstepunesco-protected-monastery-in-lviv-damaged-by-russian-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46246","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019:Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lviv_Bernardine_Monastery_4_RB_By-Rbrechko_CC-BY-SA-4.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lviv_Bernardine_Monastery_4_RB_By-Rbrechko_CC-BY-SA-4.0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lviv_Bernardine_Monastery_4_RB_By-Rbrechko_CC-BY-SA-4.0.png 500w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lviv_Bernardine_Monastery_4_RB_By-Rbrechko_CC-BY-SA-4.0-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: (before the drone strike) <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=43689588\">Bernadine Monastery<\/a>, Lviv (26 September 2015) by Rbrechko &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 17th-century Bernardine Monastery was one of several buildings hit in the Ukrainian city\u2019s historic centre, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Art Newspaper<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Russian drone strike on the historic centre of Lviv in western Ukraine on 24 March damaged multiple buildings, including a Unesco-protected 17th-century monastery. At least 27 were injured&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Unesco said\u2026 it is \u2018deeply alarmed\u2019 by the \u2018strikes that hit a building in the area of Bernardine Monastery within the World Heritage property of \u2018L\u2019viv\u2014the Ensemble of the Historic Centre\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large part of Lviv\u2019s historic centre, including the area the monastery is in, was inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1998&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2026\/03\/25\/unesco-protected-monastery-lviv-damaged-russian-drone-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: (before the drone strike) Bernadine Monastery, Lviv (26 September 2015) by Rbrechko &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 A 17th-century Bernardine Monastery was one of several buildings hit in the Ukrainian city\u2019s historic centre, which is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,260,36,30,23,29,49],"class_list":["post-46246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conflict","tag-culture","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46250,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246\/revisions\/46250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}