In 1606 the zoo was founded in Zhovkva. With a large area outside the city walls, it was created for Stanislaw Zholkevsky (the owner of the city), to have an opportunity to hunt for large animals and, at the same time, to create a great landscape park. Behind the fence lived deer, boars and others.
In the middle of the 17th century, the area of the zoo was extended and at the same time an Italian park with a sauna was built. The renovation started when Jan Sobiesky was crowned (1674). In the 1740s century, the new owner of Zhovkva (Lithuanian hetman Michal Radziwill (1702-1762)) upgraded this park according to the plan of the Italian architect Antonio Castello.
Today the former zoo is a park.

(Daria Kushnir, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 2021)