Sochi 2014 will be the most compact Winter Games in the history of the Olympic Movement. It will be possible to get from one venue to another in just a matter of minutes and all Olympic and Paralympic competition will take place in the same venues.

Plan the location of sports facilities at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014
Objects layout plan (2014)
Eleven athletic venues will be built for the Sochi 2014 Games, which will be divided into two clusters—mountain and coastal.
The clusters will be located within 48km of each other, which is less than a 30 minute ride along a new railway.

Each cluster will contain an Olympic Village. The travel time from the Olympic Village to a competition venue in the coastal cluster will be no more than five minutes. Additionally, travel time from the Olympic Village to a competition venue in the mountain cluster is less than 15 minutes.

Sochi informally called the summer capital of Russia

Mount Sochi
Sochi palm trees
covered in snow