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40 events

The towers of the Sint Servaas basilica above the Vrijthof square in Maastricht. Maastricht · March · Subject to availability TEFAF Maastricht The most rigorously vetted fair in the world, covering seven thousand years of art, in a small Dutch city near three borders. Mid March — 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 Piazzetta San Marco and the Doge’s Palace in Venice at first light. Venice · Multi-month · Subject to availability Venice Biennale The oldest and most consequential exhibition in contemporary art, staged across national pavilions and a former shipyard in Venice. Spring opening, running to late autumn — dates to be confirmed The white bathing cabins along the beach at the Lido di Venezia, sand in front of them. Venice · August · Subject to availability Venice Film Festival The oldest film festival in the world, staged on the Lido at the end of summer, and the effective opening of the awards season. Late August into early September — dates to be confirmed A steel wristwatch on its bracelet, the dial lit from one side against a dark ground. Geneva · April · Subject to availability Watches and Wonders Geneva The week in which the watch industry shows the year's work, and the entire market — houses, retailers and collectors — is in one Swiss city. Early April — 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