Of the same “age” as Powder Tower is the Town Arsenal (Gorodshoi Arsenal) – it was built in 1554-1556. Town Arsenal is Situated further along the podvalnaya street. Arsenal Town is a long one-store building shaped in the form of an irregular rectangle with a beveled corner.
During the Swedish attack in 1704 the Arsenal was ruined but two years after that it was rebuilt again. It was restored in the years 1979-1981. Currently it’s a museum of weapons – mostly cold weapons. It has one of the biggest collection of a cold weapons in Ukraine. There are hundreds of knifes and bayonets from ancient days till nowadays.
From Arsenal Street you can see a nice view of the remaining 14th-15th century walls; and from the northern side – the remnants of an “octagonal tower” which in olden times was usually defended by the guilds of rope-makers and masons. The thick stone walls and loophole windows are reminiscent of a fortress. The well-developed cornice and its horizontal partition belong to the Renaissance style of architecture. In 1799 a memorial plaque was installed on the southern wall of the Arsenal. Dating to 1655 it has the coats of arms of Lvov and two prominent Polish magnates (Sobesky and Yabl0novsky) taken from the dilapidated walls encircling the town.
