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Global Access Calendar — Region

Europe

15 events

15 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 The perforated aluminium underside of the Messe Basel exhibition halls in Basel. Basel · June · Subject to availability Art Basel The art market's most consequential week, held in a quiet Swiss city on the Rhine, where the year's most significant works change hands. Mid June — 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 Motor yachts and sailing boats moored in Cannes harbour under a wide sky. Cannes · September · Subject to availability Cannes Yachting Festival The Mediterranean's first major show of the autumn, spread across two ports, and the season's clearest view of new production. Early to mid September — dates to be confirmed A racing car at speed under floodlight, its tail lights trailing away down the straight behind it. Le Mans · June · Subject to availability Le Mans 24 Hours Twenty-four hours on public roads in the Sarthe, and the only motor race whose central subject is endurance rather than speed. Mid June — 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 Monte Carlo rising above Port Hercule, harbour and hillside apartments in view. Monte Carlo · May · Subject to availability Monaco Grand Prix Three days when a sovereign principality closes its streets and the harbour becomes the most valuable stretch of water in sport. Late May — dates to be confirmed Yachts berthed in Port Hercule, Monaco, seen from above in spring. Monte Carlo · September · Subject to availability Monaco Yacht Show Four days in Port Hercule where the superyacht industry conducts most of its year's serious business in public view. Late September — 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 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 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 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