One of the most valuable features of Kaluga city is that its architectural image, created in the late XVIII – early XIX centuries, preserved almost unchanged. Kaluga can be characterised as the city of classical Russian architecture, which attracts visitors by distinctive landscapes of a traditional Russian city.

Kaluga hosts a number of important architectural monuments like, for example, a set of administrative buildings united buy arches - Prisutstvennye Mesta (1780-1787). The area between these buildings is occupied by the Trinity Cathedral (1786) with its impressive dome (17 meters in diameter).

The region has a number of museums including the Kaluga Regional Study Museum and its branches in the main historical centres like those of Kozelsk and Borovsk. The museum is always ready to provide visitors with interesting historical details and exciting excursions.