A constant and integral part of the Mariyatska Square ensemble has always been a line of carriages, which were later replaced by cars. Opposite, on the western side of the square, there was a row of hotels: No. 2 - the “Georges” hotel, No. 4 - the ‘European’ hotel, and No. 5 - the “French” hotel, so there was no shortage of passengers. Until the horse-drawn tram began operating in 1880, carriages and cabs were the main form of public transport in Lviv, not counting the omnibus, which had been operating since 1835. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to determine the routes of the omnibus; all that is known is that it even went as far as Vynnyky. On the left, we see the figure of the Virgin Mary, which stood above the well in the square since 1862. On the right side of the buildings on Halytska Square: building No. 15 - the building of the Halytska Mortgage Bank, known to post-war Lviv residents as the “Ukraine” cinema; building No. 14, which housed the famous “Polish” bookstore in Lviv and far beyond its borders from 1875 to 1897. Its owner was bookseller Adam Bartoshevich, and from 1889 - his former employee Berl Pordes, who went down in the history of Lviv bookselling as the most successful bookseller Bernard Polonetsky. The venerable age of the photograph (110 years!) still allows us to see the details, and there are many of them here. For example, pay attention to the advertising pillars on the border of Mariyatska and Halytska squares—an interesting detail of the urban environment of the late 19th century, as well as wooden portals and shop windows—nowadays, there is a tendency to recreate such designs. Between buildings No. 10 and 11, there is a view of Valova Street, where you can see the still-existing buildings on the even-numbered side of the street in the place of the current square. In one of them, No. 4, the Baurovich stone house, the city traditionally rented premises for the location of one school or another; this was a typical phenomenon in Lviv at the end of the 19th century. It was at this time that the city authorities began to build specialized school buildings on a massive scale.