The picture shows the newly-built Halytskyi ("Galician") Market, the oldest in Lviv. In 1891, in order to establish a market, the city government purchased land plot on Bernardynska Square from Besiadetsky (87,000 PLN) and Savratsky (10,000 PLN). In 1892, the Viennese company End & Horn, which had already established itself well by constructing the Krakow Market Pavilion, built a large structure to cover the pavilion with corrugated, galvanized iron.

The market had adequate ventilation, facilities with running water, 50 lockable shops, 60 venues for butchers and slaughterers, 54 grocery stalls, 2 meat warehouses, and 6 toilets with running water. Building the market cost the city 79,387 PLN and 3 cents. For many years, this compact bazar in the very center of the city was very popular among "suburban peasants": both the average buyers and residents of central Lviv and the average sellers.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, the city government decided to liquidate the market, considering the attractiveness of the property in the center of the city. The pressure of popular resistance succeeded in protecting the existence of this bazar--the oldest in Lviv; however, the reconstruction undoubtedly stole its uniqueness, turning it into an ordinary market with a lot of privately owned stalls. The villagers were categorically pushed out of the market, but they continue to sell their products on the surrounding streets despite being harassed by the Halytski county guards. Consequently, Lviv irrevocably lost a certain aspect of local exoticism.