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=== Layout and landmarks === Sochi is unique among larger Russian cities as having some aspects of a [[subtropical]] resort. About two million people visited Greater Sochi each summer as of 2014,<ref>{{cite news |date=July 4, 2007 |title=Сочи, Пхенчхан и Зальцбург — претенденты на Олимпиаду-2014 |trans-title=Sochi, Pyeongchang, and Salzburg — candidates for the 2014 Olympics. |url=http://www.itar-tass.com/level2.html?NewsID=11684508&PageNum=0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705142505/http://www.itar-tass.com/level2.html?NewsID=11684508&PageNum=0 |archive-date=July 5, 2007 |access-date=January 7, 2014 |publisher=[[ITAR-TASS]] |format=in Russian}}</ref> when the city is home to the annual film festival "[[Kinotavr]]" and a getaway for Russia's elite. <gallery class="center" widths="210" heights="160"> File:Promenade in Sochi, Nov. 2010.jpg|Sochi's quay File:Dendrarium Sochi Amours fontain.JPG|[[Cupid]] fountain in [[Sochi Arboretum|Arboretum]] File:Morskoy lane in Sochi, hotels.jpg|Hotels File:Tower on the Akhun mountain.JPG|[[Mount Akhun]] File:Аэрофотоснимок гостиницы Приморская 02.jpg|Aerial view of Sochi File:Памятник Петру I (Сочи).jpg|Monument to [[Peter the Great|Peter I]] in the seaport berth </gallery> A [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]], the {{convert|2957|km2|acre|sp=us}} [[Caucasus Nature Reserve]], lies just north from the city.<ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/900/ Western Caucasus] at Unesco Heritage Site. Retrieved July 7, 2007</ref> Sochi also has the region's most northerly [[tea]] [[plantation]]s.
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