Batyar Day (Rascal Day)

“Batyarstvo” (an idle and debauched style of life) is one of the most famous and popular Lviv-style phenomena. Batyars have their own vocabulary, codes of honor, and style of life. They have become a major sub-culture in the Lviv scene. Although very few authentic Batyars remain, their standards and requirements have become an essential part of a Lviver’s life: the amount of froth in our beer, our beautiful girls, our honorable but impish street rogues… well, look, even how deeply we all love our native city. If you try to understand Batyar secrets, and their particularly humorous way of looking at everyday wrong-doings, you will probably never want to leave the traditional celebrations dedicated to Rascal Day in Lviv on May 1st.

Jokes, songs, traditional rascal-style entertainment – all this and more for everyone who hopes to meet up with an original “Galician phenomenon” – a Batyar with his audacious words, and his whole-hearted laugh, a young man that you will never mistake for anyone else, and whom you will never be able to forget.

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