Each year, from 10 to 15 September, the Cannes Yachting Festival offers a unique experience to visitors and owners showing boats in the Bay of Cannes. Just off the Croisette to the east and Old Town to the west, the festival takes place in the city’s two ports: Port Canto and the Vieux Port. Near Cannes’ old town and the Palais des Festivals, the yachting.
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From 7 - 8 September, the first edition of the Challenge des ports de la Baie de Gou Jouan will welcome local boaters from the six ports around the Bay, with a weekend of boating regattas, fishing competitions and family activities.
The Swedish teenager known for calling out the leaders of the world for their complete lack of action on climate change has just teamed up with Monaco’s favourite blueblood, Pierre Casiraghi. Together with her father and Nathan Grossman, they have set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a solar-powered sailboat, heading to the UN World Climate Summit in September.
Cannes is the home of many festivals through the year, this time around Cannes will welcome the Festival de l’Art Russe from the 23rd to the 27th of August. For this 2019 edition of the Festival de l’Art Russe, Cannes will welcome a wide range of different artists in an eclectic program that perfectly depicts the evolution of art and craft in Russia.
Nice Côte d’Azur and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) France are joining together to collaborate against plastic pollution in the Mediterranean. Today, 13 August, Nice’s local authorities signed a Charter of Commitment, when “Blue Panda,” the WWF ambassador sailboat will anchor in Nice until the 16th of August.
On 02 August, Nice Airport welcomed the first commercial flight direct from Beijing, China. The connection has been in the works for several years, but now Nice will be connected to the Chinese capital with three flights per week. Air China will be providing the flights on Airbus A330-200 offering 227 seats among which 28 in business class.
The Monte Carlo Société des Bains de Mer (SBM) now offers and exclusive and homemade ice cream, a collaboration between Philippe Joanès and Gérard Taurin, a dynamic sweet duo of a Meilleur Ouvrier de France and an ice cream World Champion. After less than a year of existence, a wind of renewal blows on the sugar department of One-Monte-Carlo.