Following Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street back to the foot of the High Castle and turning left one comes upon a broad boulevard overgrown with trees and shrubbery. On the right is Podvalnaya Street (”Ulitsa Podualnaya”) crossed by Valovaya Street (”Ulitsa Valovaya”) at the far end.
The names Podvalnaya (”Under the rampart”) and Valovaya (”Rampart”) are reminiscent of the days when medieval Lvov was surrounded with high ramparts and deep moats.
In the middle of the 14th century the town built by Daniil Calitsky and his successors fell into decay. On the orders of Casimir III (”the Great”) a new town was founded nearby in 1350. The old wooden Lviv of Prince Calitsky could not withstand the fire of 1381 and suffered considerable damage.
In the second half of the 14th century Okolny Corod acquired the status of a suburb. The new Lviv was settled mainly by the secular and ecclesiastic nobility, wealthy merchants and craftsmen. The bulk of the population kept to the suburbs: Galitskoye, Cracowskoye, Lichakovo, Kleparovo, etc., leading an impoverished life in their wretched mud hovels. These were the people who built the new Lvov. “It was fed by the Ukrainian peasant,” wrote Yaroslav Galan, “its walls were raised by the Ukrainian workers and it made no difference whether these were the walls of a dwelling house, a belfry or a nobleman’s palace.”
