Hotel & Garden

Western European Russia


While perhaps falling short of boutique aspirations, this charming, brown-brick English-style inn nevertheless makes for a good choice. Its modern motel-style rooms are smallish, yet comfortable, and lent a bit of class by vintage grand prix photography adorning the walls. It's centrally located, tucked away off the main drag in a lot behind Sovetskiy Sport, accessed via ul Lva Tolstogo.


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1. Antiquities Exhibition Centre

0.2 MILES

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2. Tula Necropolis

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3. Central Park

0.52 MILES

A large, pleasant park perfect for strolling and watching locals cycling and rollerblading around. If you enter the park from pr Lenina, you'll see the…

4. Tolstoy Statue

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5. Tula Regional Arts Museum

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This exceptional gallery charts a course from gilded icons and late-15th-century European paintings through to fascinating pieces of socialist realism…

6. Lenin Statue

0.77 MILES

This giant Lenin statue looms large over Tula's central square (pl Lenina) with its brutal architecture of the old Soviet city.

7. Tula Samovar Museum

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8. Assumption Cathedral

0.93 MILES

The five burnished gold onion domes of this 18th-century cathedral rise over the ramparts of Tula's kremlin.