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23 events

23 events

A Belle Époque corner frontage in Cannes, shuttered balconies and bay windows above the street. Antibes · May · Subject to availability amfAR Gala Cannes The foundation's Riviera benefit, held during the film festival, and the most substantial charity auction of the European season. During the Cannes festival in May — dates to be confirmed A skier cutting through deep powder on an open mountain face, snow-laden firs behind. Aspen · Multi-month · Subject to availability Aspen Winter Season Four mountains above a Colorado silver town, and the established winter base of the American season. December through March — dates to be confirmed The old town at Cannes above the bay, its clock tower and terracotta roofs among umbrella pines. Cannes · May · Subject to availability Cannes Film Festival Twelve days in which the Croisette becomes the centre of the film industry, and the market beneath it does the actual business. Mid to late May — dates to be confirmed The Dubai skyline in silhouette at sunset, seen across open ground. Dubai · March · Subject to availability Dubai World Cup The richest race meeting in the world, run under floodlights at Meydan at the close of the Gulf season. Late March — dates to be confirmed Riyadh at night, lit boulevards and towers across the Saudi capital. Riyadh · October · Subject to availability Future Investment Initiative Three days in Riyadh that have become the principal meeting point between Gulf capital and the international investment community. Late October — dates to be confirmed The glass-roofed arcade of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Milan · February · Subject to availability Milan Fashion Week Six days in which the Italian houses show, and the city that manufactures much of the industry conducts its business face to face. Late February, with a second edition in September — dates to be confirmed The Big Sur coastline south of Monterey, cliffs falling to the Pacific. Monterey · August · Subject to availability Monterey Car Week A week on the Monterey Peninsula in which the collector car world conducts its most significant business of the year. Mid August — dates to be confirmed The Eiffel Tower at the end of a Paris street, bare trees and a stone façade in the foreground. Paris · September · Subject to availability Paris Fashion Week The last and largest of the four fashion capitals, where the season is settled and the houses show at their full scale. Late September into early October — dates to be confirmed Rocks and surf along the Monterey Peninsula shoreline on the 17-Mile Drive. Pebble Beach · August · Subject to availability Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance The most significant concours in the world, judged on the eighteenth fairway at Pebble Beach on the closing Sunday of Car Week. Mid August, closing Car Week — dates to be confirmed The Upper Ward quadrangle of Windsor Castle in Berkshire under a clear sky. Ascot · June · Subject to availability Royal Ascot Five days in Berkshire, established in 1711, and the most formally codified week in the British summer season. Mid June — dates to be confirmed The waterfront at Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy, seen across the harbour entrance. Gustavia · December · Subject to availability St Barths New Year The turn of the year in the harbour at Gustavia, where the Atlantic superyacht fleet gathers and the island is at capacity. Late December into early January — dates to be confirmed Two classic J-class yachts racing under full sail on open water. Multi-month · Subject to availability The America's Cup The oldest trophy in international sport, contested between a defender and a challenger at a venue chosen by the holder. Host venue, cycle and dates to be confirmed Centre Court at Wimbledon, the grass mown in stripes and the empty stands rising around it. London · July · Subject to availability The Championships, Wimbledon A fortnight on grass in south-west London, and the most rigorously traditional of the four tennis majors. Late June into July — dates to be confirmed The Cotswold escarpment above Cheltenham, pasture and woodland falling away to the vale. Cheltenham · March · Subject to availability The Cheltenham Festival Four days of championship jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill, and the most serious week in the National Hunt calendar. Mid March — dates to be confirmed A field of thoroughbreds at full stride on a dirt track, ground thrown up behind them. Louisville · May · Subject to availability The Kentucky Derby Two minutes of racing at Churchill Downs, and a week in the Bluegrass that is the centre of the American thoroughbred year. First Saturday in May — dates to be confirmed A championship hole in low sunlight, deep bunkers short of the green and a player on the fairway. Augusta · April · Subject to availability The Masters Tournament The first major of the golfing year, held on the same Georgia course each April, and the most tightly controlled event in sport. Early April — dates to be confirmed The Fifth Avenue frontage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its arched limestone entrance and steps. New York · May · Subject to availability The Met Gala The Costume Institute's annual benefit, held on the first Monday in May, and an invitation-only occasion in the strictest sense. First Monday in May — dates to be confirmed The Monaco coastline from the corniche above, the principality and its harbour below. Monte Carlo · April · Subject to availability The Monte-Carlo Masters The opening of the European clay season, played on terraces cut into the cliff above the Mediterranean. Mid April — dates to be confirmed The links at St Andrews, a revetted bunker in the fairway and the clubhouse low on the skyline. United Kingdom · July · Subject to availability The Open Championship The oldest championship in golf, played each July on a rotation of links courses around the British and Irish coast. Mid July — host links and dates to be confirmed A path through flowering shrubs and mature trees in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. Egham · June · Subject to availability The Queen's Cup High-goal polo in Windsor Great Park, and one of the two tournaments that define the British season. Mid June — dates to be confirmed A championship green at Le Golf National beyond an open water hazard, dune mounding around it. September · Subject to availability The Ryder Cup Three days of match play between Europe and the United States, held every second year and alternating between the two continents. Biennial, late September — host venue and dates to be confirmed The Lower Manhattan skyline at golden hour, seen across New York harbour. New York · August · Subject to availability The US Open Tennis Championships The last major of the year, played on hard courts in Queens across a fortnight of extreme late-summer heat and floodlit night sessions. Late August into September — dates to be confirmed The church at Frauenkirch above Davos, deep snow across the valley and cloud on the peaks behind. Davos · January · Subject to availability World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Five days in an Alpine town at fifteen hundred metres, and the densest concentration of political and commercial principals in the calendar. Mid to late January — dates to be confirmed