"Spring is in full swing. The apple trees are blooming extraordinarily. There's something magical and crazy about their blooming. I've never seen anything like it. You will look out the window into the garden and every time you will be amazed by these airy, white clouds of flowers in the air, with a pink tint in places and with a fresh green background in the distance," Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya wrote in her diary one hundred and twenty-seven years ago, on May 15, 1891.
The news that fans of the manor museum are waiting for every year is when the famous apple orchards will bloom! Last year it happened in the second half of May. In order not to miss the apple blossom, we recommend:
follow social media visittula and Clear,
before the trip, decide in which part of the garden and estate you will read your favorite poetry or an excerpt about “the sky of Austerlitz”
a ride on a harnessed cart around the estate
try the Ankovsky pie in the restaurant “Preshpekt”!
take fresh juice from Yasnaya Polyana apples with you on the way back. The only thing is that museum staff politely, but quite understandably, ask during photo shoots not to pick branches and flowers of apple trees, not to climb trees. But we are sure that this would never occur to you.
On May 1,attractions will be launched in The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after P.P. Belousov. And of course the most important and romantic of them is the 40-meter Ferris wheel! Just imagine: you are with a company, or with a loved one, at the height of a 14-storey building, with a cup of freshly brewed coffee from the coffee shops of the park, and the first tender foliage is around you! By the way, for those who are afraid, there are closed cabins on the wheel. And for those who want to tickle their nerves, there are outdoor and even extreme booths!
Well, after flying over the city, dozens of options open up for you to continue your walk. For example, admire the works of Aivazovsky, Malevich Kuindzhi, Ge, Shishkin, Repin and other legendary artists at the Tula Museum of Fine Arts. Or the whole family can view funny surrogates, majestic crocodiles and funny monkeys in Zooexotarium. We recommend that you stock up on bread and nuts: you will definitely come across a tame squirrel, there are a lot of them in the park, and bread is useful for ducks in a lively corner. You can finish the walk at the brewery restaurant “Peter Petrovich".
Do you want to spend the most intense weekend?
Then you definitely need to come to Tula! The city is ideal for the city break format, when tourists visit a large number of different venues over the weekend, getting to know the city from different angles, getting acquainted with its unusual sides.
And it's very easy to do it in Tula! You just check into the hotel, go to the very center of the city, to kremlin, on the embankment, in The museum quarter and the gastronomic paradise in the space “Iskra". Believe me, even a day will not be enough to visit all the museums, cafes, restaurants and shops. There are a lot of diverse museums there alone: the only branch of the State Historical Museum in Russia Л.Н.Т . from Yasnaya Polyana, The Center of Archeology is from Kulikovo Field, and literally across the river is the majestic museum weapons! Every museum has memorable activities and workshops: in the GYM you can make a love note according to the rules of etiquette of the royal court, and in the museum of weapons you can shoot models of real machine guns and rifles! After a cultural meal, a mandatory lunch or dinner at Iskra: children will appreciate burgers at Pineapple Express, gourmets will appreciate meat and fish cuisine at Salden'S Porterhouse, and adult tourists – tinctures in the favorite institution of Moscow party-goersLil Pil. You can alternate the following days – old streets, historical cemeteries, creative clusters, loft spaces - build your ideal route, and believe me, you will leave home with an incredible amount of impressions.
Tula region is a pioneer of the popular glamping format: it was here that Russia's first glamping opened in 2016 “Gulyai-Gorod". After that, several bright projects appeared in the region – the Green Trail, The Field is clear, Lapochkin's Nest, Alino. Now this format of recreation has grown into something more – tourists want not only to relax, but also to create. Therefore, in such quiet places, vacationers cook cheese themselves, take care of animals, and make pottery. Such an outcome from the noise of the city will reboot you in just a few days, and you will feel the benefits of such a vacation for a very long time.
Summer is the time to relax in Кондуках , known as the Blue Lakes. This is an amazing natural area in the Tula region: flooded quarries, similar to the Martian landscape, with lakes full of real blue water! This place was “promoted” by the capital's bloggers, and now fashion photo shoots, music videos and films are shot here every year. In spring, when nature begins to blossom, it is especially beautiful here. We recommend that you stock up on thermos flasks with tea and a good camera!
