Historic monuments were one of the vehicles of modern nation building in the nineteenth century. Their role could turn out to be even more exposed in an ethnically mixed territory of central and central-eastern Europe. For the turn of the twentieth-century Polish inhabitants of the capital of the Austrian crown land of Galicia, urban secular historic architecture proved to be such a key tool. The Old Town of Lviv, in itself witness of a centuries-old multi-ethnic and multi-cultural tradition, became the basis for a modern nation-building project, in which local and regional Polish character administrative bodies and social institutions were involved. The project relied on the strengthening of national identity among Lviv's inhabitants by means of securing the ‘Polish character’ of the Old Town, which amounted to reinventing it anew.

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作为国家艺术作品的城市：世纪末利沃夫的现代性和国家建设

历史古迹是十九世纪现代国家建设的载体之一。在中欧和中东欧的种族混合地区，他们的角色可能会更加暴露。对于 20 世纪之交的奥地利王室首都加利西亚的波兰居民来说，城市世俗历史建筑被证明是一种关键工具。利沃夫老城本身就是百年多民族和多文化传统的见证，它成为现代国家建设项目的基础，当地和地区的波兰特色行​​政机构和社会机构都参与其中。该项目依靠加强利沃夫居民的民族认同感，通过确保旧城区的“波兰特色”，这相当于重新改造它。