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Singing fountains in Adler Olympic Park -one of the most visually impressive attractions in Adler. To watch this light and sound show, people even come here from other resorts of Greater Sochi and from the center of Sochi with excursions or on their own.
Fountains are located in the center of the Olympic Park Next to the "Olympic flame Bowl", where the opening and closing of the 2014 Olympic Games took place, this place is also called the "Medal Plaza". The fountain pool is located at the foot of the torch of the Olympic flame 50 meters high, the prototype of which was the mythical Firebird. 264 controlled fountains with multi-color illumination "participate" in the show. Special powerful "hyper guns" are able to shoot water to a height of 70 meters, which is even higher than the torch itself.
The show is accompanied by modern and classical music, including Russian and foreign hits. The show lasts one hour and starts every day at the same time, but the schedule changes from season to season. Additional shows may be held during the holidays. Several days every month fountains do not work because of prevention. Schedule and break information is published on the official website of the Olympic Park
Unfortunately, in 2021, the music program of the fountains was "improved", and instead of music of different styles, music of only one style is played during one performance, broken down by day. Now Monday plays Russian classics; Tuesday-soundtracks to famous movies; Wednesday-Viennese waltzes; Thursday-World pop hits; Friday-masterpieces of great composers; Saturday-Russian Popular Music; Sunday-Spanish and Latin American rhythms. In our opinion (the authors of the site) it has become much worse, and this is noticeable even for other tourists who leave the fountains after the first 2-3 monotonous compositions. In order not to be disappointed, we advise you, if possible, to choose the day of Visit, taking into account the schedule by day.
You will have to watch the fountain show from the square around the fountain and the torch of the Olympic flame. There are benches around the perimeter of the circular square, but they are too far away for viewing, so most spectators try to get close to the fountains. But in fact, it is not necessary to get too close, and from the side you will see the whole performance even better, and the review will not be blocked by forward people. Well, if you want nothing to interfere with the review at all, you can take places in advance on the stairs leading to the transition through the race track to the west of the torch. But there during the high season (in summer) you need to take places at all an hour before the start.
Be careful and look after the children! An hour before the start and during the show, there are many vacationers who massively rent electric vehicles and ride around the square around the fountain, many in a drunken state. Due to inexperience, they run into tourists walking or resting on lawns, there are injuries. Unfortunately, the administration of the Olympic Park does not dare to make this zone forbidden for electric vehicles, although such attempts were made.
🕐 Working hours
fountain show takes place daily, time changes seasonally:
- In summer-from 21:00 to 22:00
- Spring and autumn - from 19:30 to 20:30
- In winter-from 18:00 to 19:00
Several days every month fountains do not work because of prevention. Unfortunately, there is nowhere to find out this information on the Internet, you will have to check on the spot with local residents or distributors of excursions. Sometimes schedule and break information is published on the official Olympic Park website, but not always in a timely manner.
💵Entrance fee / ticket price
access to the fountains and the Olympic Park is free, a visit to the Olympic Park with a sightseeing tour - from 300 rubles.
🚶 How to get there
the fountains are located in the center of the Olympic Park in Adler (fountains on the map. You can not enter the park by car, so you have to walk about a kilometer from the entrance through one of the gates. Without problems, you can go by bike or electric scooter, which, among other things, can be rented at the entrances.
In turn, the Olympic Park can be reached with a tour or on your own:
- You can independently get there by public transport or a private car. But given the complexity of parking, we recommend using public transport, rented bicycles or electric scooters. By public transport from other resorts it is best to go here by train to the Imereti resort Station, as they bypass all traffic jams. Trains run to this station even from Krasnodar and, of course, they make stops at all more or less large resorts of the coast after Tuapse. Just be careful with the recovery back in the summer, because you can not catch The Last Train, see schedule for Imereti resort Station. From the station to the fountains will have to walk 2.5 kilometers, which will take at least half an hour. From Adler University and the nearest resorts (Imeretinka, Veseloe village, Khosta you can take one of the buses No. 554, 557, 88, 125C, 535, 535e to the stops "Sochi Park" or "Fisht". To go home at the end of the show at 22:00, most likely you will have to use a taxi or rented individual transport, since, unfortunately, city buses stop working. Read more about transport in the resorts of Sochi, including rent, here).
- Sightseeing tours of the Olympic Park with a visit to the fountains are offered at all resorts of Greater Sochi, the cost, depending on the program of the excursion and the resort of purchase, starts from 400 rubles.
You can buy excursions in the resorts of Greater Sochi from distributors on the streets and in travel agencies, and you can also pick up interesting options for individual and group tours on these proven sites:
- 📷 search for excursions in Adler on Sputnik8.com
- 📷 search for excursions in Adler on Tripster.ru
- 📷 excursions from the tour operator TEZ Tour