Our homeland has a lot of different sides, it depends on your preferences. Tula simultaneously is a city of craftsmen, a pryanik-capital of Russia, a friendly lady with steaming hot samovar and even a place of the legendary music festival “Dikaya Myata” (Wild Mint). Among hundreds of choices of entertainment, there are cozy glampings, ancient Kremlin, funky embankment and magnificent restaurants. Annually Tula meet more than a million tourists for not only leave them with unforgettable memories of their version of the capital of the region, but also for welcome them again, willing and excited for another journey.
You know what? This place is very close – right in the region of Tula! Glampings, eco-farms and even a real treehouse. All these places will help you to forget about your stress!
Here, in 2016, the first ever glamping in Russia was founded. “Guliai Gorod” is a place, where comfort coexists with nature and peace. This wonderful mix helps to replenish your physical and moral needs. Fancy cottages and tents in “Zelenaya tropa” (Green road) immediately set you on relaxing rest, and wooden font with diluted herb tinctures right after hot sauna recharge your inner power batteries.
This glamping from the creators of well-known music festival is working all year round. Camp takes place on the same field, where once a year the festival is held, and has already become a great meeting place of creative and cordial people. Musicians, actors, writers, artists, poets and guests are coming here again and again. The camp is surrounded by forest and two rivers: Oka and Vashana. It’s easy to forget here about your troubles while connecting with nature and taking part in various shows, master-classes and perfomances.
“Lapochkino Gnezdo” is a real tree house! Rustle of leaves, whisper of the wind – everything in here is created as if its only purpose is to make you rest well and open your mind for new experiences.
If you are too afraid of heights, don’t worry – welcome to the Environmental Park “Yasno Pole”. It is a very unique place, where nature and architecture are friendly neighbors, where cozy country vacation combines with cultural-educational trip and agritourism. More than 500 acres of land here is agricultural. Guests of Yasno Pole can ride a horse, say hello to llamas, cuddle with barn animals, take a tour at the local cheese factory and take part in a master-class in a ceramic workshop.
The tourists of our century don’t want to be only observers of the manufacturing process, but also to be directly in the process. For people with such a wish, Tula opens its factories’ doors to show the workflow and to submerge you into the philosophy behind the manufactured goods. For example, The Museum of the Confectionery Factory "Medovye Traditsyi" (Honey Traditions) will offer to experience the process of making the real pryanik, as it was made more than 300 years ago.
Priokskoye Fish-Breeding Enterprise can entertain you with “milking” the sturgeons. Meaning, to get the caviar from the living fish, and then let it go into its brooder. And, of course, for enthusiasts enterprise can offer a degustation of black caviar and smoked fish.
Do not forget, that Tula is considered to be the Workshop of Russia, with extensive manufacturing heritage. Wonderous Machine Tool museum in “Oktava” will tell you a story of how our city got its industrial fame, why engineers are the best romantics, which inventions of Tula are used by the whole country and how the great love for a girl was able to create a legendary weapon.
This became possible after creating a Museum Quarter.
Now there are four branches of federal museums: Branch of the State Historical Museum, Family History Center, Culture exhibition complex L.N.T. at Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana” and Interactive Environment “Arkheologiya”. In the nearest future, branches of Polytechnic Museum, Museum of the History of the Bakhrushin Theater and A.Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Art will also open their doors for the visitors.
You should not forget about Tula State Museum of Arms – one of the largest in Europe; about the Belyavsky House or Old Tula Pharmacy; about Tula Regional Art Museum with extraordinary collection of works of both Russian and foreign artists. We are sure, that you’ll find a museum to your own taste!
One of the most well-known is, of course, Yasnaya Polyana – familial estate of Leo Tolstoy. Here he lived, created and wrote his novels. This estate is also his grave.
In Chernskiy district of Tula Turgenevo village is situated – the familial estate of Turgenevs. This place became famous after Ivan Turgenev wrote his famous collection of short stories called “A Sportsman’s Sketches”, specifically after story called “Bezhin Meadow”.
The meadow itself is not too far from the manor, you can easily walk your way to it.
State Memorial Historical, Art and Natural Museum-Reserve of Vasily Polenov, located near the river Oka, will pleasantly surprise you with peculiar architecture made by the artist himself. And the village Bekhovo, being a tomb for the whole Polenovs family, is considered to be the most beautiful in the whole world.
In village Dvoryaninovo you can find Museum-Estate of a scholar, agronomist, encyclopedist and educationist Andrey Bolotov, whose impact on the Russian scientific thought is simply immeasurable.
The head offices own official certificates of taken prize places in all-russian contests.
City tour guides can use different approaches – as classical one, so one more like of a storytelling with usage of gadgets. Believe us when we say that they have a lot to tell.
For example, do you know who invented a machine, that rolls the cans for you? Who was the only foe, that could conquer the Tula Kremlin? Where the smallest town in Russia could be found? (Spoiler – it’s in the region of Tula). Which park and museum are ones of the largest in the whole Europe?
Guides know the answers to all of these questions, not only them, but also heaps of funny, dramatic, entertaining and interesting stories about Tula and its surroundings.
And even if you won’t manage to hear all the stories, don’t worry – it means, that you have another reason to return to our wonderful city!
For example, in “Prespekt” in Yasnaya Polyana and in “Just WOOD” you can try famous ankovsky pie, once made specially for Leo Tolsoty. In “Salden’S” you can try stout with pryanik notes, and in cafes like “Coffee Cult” and “Mr. Cup” there’s a local special – raf with pryanik syrop. In Venev you can buy local buns called venevka – it even has its own monument. And Belev offers a wide variety of pastilles.
Everywhere you go, our chefs would be glad to treat you with their view on multifarious delicacies. Fans of meat and fish would have their minds blown by diversity in the restaurant’s “Porterhaus” menu. Someone with high demands should visit “Angel 8” or “WellWellWell”. And for the friendly atmosphere go to the bar “Lil Pil”.
It’s best, when among the taken photo-memories are not only classical perfect little views, but also some places, that are not so famous among tourists.
In village Fedorovka in Uzlovsky district of Tula there is an abandoned pool. The building with high dome, made of stained glass, had been already noticed by some of local groups in VKontakte, but still mostly it remains unknown.
In Tula you can take pictures near the popular murals in the center of the city or in the Art Quarter (Near the Oktava). Works of street-artists Vova Nootk, Dmitriy Aske, Alexei Luka and others attract more and more stylish photosets every day.
Another great opportunity – photos on our colorful embankment, from Wowhouse bureau. This will give you a chance to not only capture a lot of memories, but also to take a wonderful walk along the river.
And don’t forget “Iskra” and “Likerka LOFT” – these creative clusters provide tons of means for taking amazing and original photos. Besides, after all this creativity, you can stay and have a little snack with a glass of coffee in numerous cafes.
Tula was the city, that Peter the Great established the arms factory in. At the same factory, Ekaterina II “welded” the barrel of the gun by her own hands. A man, whose appearance formed a legend about Levsha (Lefty), lived and worked in Tula. During the WWII Tula became a shield for Moscow, earning the title of the Hero City. Every street is reminding about our great past, it even is noted in the old Tula hymn. “Dulnaya (of muzzle), Stvolnaya (of barrel), Arsenalnaya (of arsenal)” is only a few of those historical streets.
Park Patriot, even though opened not too long ago, doesn’t lag behind. In here you can visit multimedium museum of heroic Tula defense, which uses giant dioramas and unstoppable mix of sounds, music and voices to create the atmosphere of living through the years of war, to help to understand how immeasurably glorious was the heroism of our city and our people.
