The rural property in Belarus is a land with an ancient and rich history and unique culture. It has a significant number of historical towns and cities: Novogrudok – the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Russia and Zhemoit; Polotsk, Turov, Grodno – the centers of Slavic principalities in the 9th and the 12th centuries; Mstislavl – the center of a large voivodship of the 16th century. Many towns and cities have preserved ancient temples and cloisters, palaces and castles of magnates of Rzecz Pospolita and of the Russian Empire, as well as valuable architectural, historical and cultural monuments. Kamenets, Minsk, Zaslavl, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Krevo, Krichev, Gomel, Pinsk, Slutsk, Nesvige, Slonim and other cities of the Republic of Belarus have rich history.
    
The most attractive for the development of tourism in the Republic of Belarus are:

- Monuments of history and culture — historical center in Grodno, monuments in Polotsk, Nesvige, Novogrudok, the Mir Castle, defensive churches in Sinovichi and Murovanka, the Brest Fortress, the Lida Castle, the Bobruisk Fortress, monuments in Pinsk, Slonim, Mogilev, Gomel, Mstislavl, Vitebsk;

- places related to important historical events — Novogrudok (the formation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), Grodno (the second and the third divisions of Rzeczpospolita), Polotsk (the center of one of the most ancient Slavic principalities), Zhirovichi (the location of the wonderworking icon), Brest (the Church Union of 1596, the peace treaty between Soviet Russia and Germany in 1918, the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress in 1941), Khatyn (burnt by fascists together with its inhabitants in 1943);

- places connected with the great names of history – A. Mitskevich (Zaosje, Novogrudok, the Lake of Svitiaz, Shchorsi, Baltseniki, Tuganovichi), M. Oginskiy (Slonim, Grodno, Zalesje), E. Ozheshko (Milkovshchina, Grodno, Ludvinovo, Zakozel), I. Domeiko (Medvedka, Shchuchin), F. Skorina (Polotsk), Simeon Polotski (Polotsk), T. Kostyushko (Kossovo, Syahnovichi, Grodno), M. Shagal (Liozno, Vitebsk), the headquarters of Nicolas II in Mogilev;

- museums – in Minsk, Grodno, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Gomel, Mogilev, Brest, Slonim, Novogrudok, Baranovichi; folk art museum in Raubichi; the museum of amateur and folk arts in Vetka village; in the Mir Castle; Kupalovskiy Preserve; Kolasovskiy Reserve; the museum of material culture in Dudutki village;

- the centers of folk crafts – glasshouses in Borisov and Berezovka; pottery and ceramics in Ivatsevichi, Bobruisk and Motol village; wood painting and engraving in Ivenets, Budslava; wood incrustations in Zhlobin; flax braiding in Molodechno; weaving in Motol village; straw articles in Mogilev; souvenir mills in Minsk, Brest, Pinsk and Gomel.

National parks and reserves were created in Belarus to protect the unique nature of the country, preserve and increase the number of rare and endangered flora and fauna species, conduct the observation of changes in nature.

National parks: “Belovezhskaya pushcha”, “The Braslav Lakes,” “Pripiatsky”, “Naroch”.

Reserves: the Berezina Biosphere Reserve and the Polessky radio-ecological reserve.

Ecological tourism is being successfully developed on the basis of the national parks and reserves in recent years. Hunting tours have been organized in the experimental forest-hunting farms existing in the reserves and national parks.