Sochi is Russia’s most famous resort. Its attraction as a centre of world tourism is boosted by the geographical proximity to the countries of Europe and Middle East, access to the Global Ocean through the Black Sea, a pleasant moderate subtropical climate and the 2014 Winter Olympics infrastructure.
Sochi is the only city in Russia immersed in a lush greenery of the trees you are unlikely to spot elsewhere in the country, such as palm trees and magnolias, tangerines and lemons, cypress and boxwood. It is also the world’s northernmost spot of tea cultivation.