Terme Jemtchouzhny Adler

Terme Jemtchouzhny Adler draws bicarbonated mineral springs in Adler, the southernmost district of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia's only subtropical coastal city, where the Black Sea's warm waters, the palm trees of the Caucasian Riviera, and the snow-capped peaks of the western Caucasus visible forty kilometres inland create a climatic combination unique in the Russian Federation. Adler was the site of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, which concentrated the most expensive sporting infrastructure in Olympic history, including ski slopes, ice arenas, and the Olympic village, within a coastal subtropical resort whose banana plantations and citrus groves create a surreal adjacency to the alpine venues a cable car ride into the mountains. The mineral springs of Adler, valued for relaxation and circulatory wellbeing in the Caucasian spa tradition, flow in a resort complex on the Mzymta river delta where the subtropical climate, the mineral water culture, and the lingering Olympic infrastructure of a mega-event that transformed the entire Sochi coastline in four years combine into a peculiarly Russian form of coastal wellness tourism.