Puerto Banus … A city of luxury and wealth, gold purses and snow-white yachts. A magnet for the richest and most notable people in Europe. Here you can meet famous singers and actors, Arabian princes and Arab sheikhs. “Spanish Saint-Tropez” – this is sometimes called Puerto Banus. However it does not require comparisons and analogies, because it is a unique gem on the necklace of the best places in Europe.

Puerto Banus is a city in Andalusia, located on the Costa del Sol. It is just a 5-minute drive from Marbella and the famous “golden mile”, with the villas of the multi-million dollar estates owners.

The history of the port

The history of the port began in August 1970 with a legendary party organized on the coast of Marbella by wealthy entrepreneur Jose Banus. The party was timed to coincide with the completion of the construction of a luxury yacht harbor. Guests just loved Julio Iglesias’ singing, then still a rising star of the Spanish stage. Dear guests – Grace Kelly and her husband, Prince of Monaco Rainier – admired the new marina in the company of the director Roman Polanski and the owner of the “Playboy” Hugh Hefner. It was this party that started a glamorous life in Marbella. And up to this day it never ceased for a minute.

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Puerto Banus, one of the best offers on the Spanish property market. It was chosen as a place to live by many Hollywood stars, oligarchs and powerful. However, the city is popular not only among the rich. Thousands of tourists come here, eager to get under the money rain and feel themselves attached to the elite life. They rent apartments, rent cars and yachts, leave their savings in boutiques, nightclubs and restaurants to feel at least a little like millionaires. 

The main attraction of the city is, of course, a grandiose marina, a parking lot for yachts, designed for 900 mooring places. It is full all year round, as the climate here is extremely mild and the temperature never drops below + 20 ° С. True, most of the boats are rarely removed from the anchor. Sometimes they go to the open sea only once or twice a year. They are rather a symbol of status than a means of transportation or a place for recreation.

Luxury shopping in Puerto Banus

Puerto Banus especially honors Russian tourists. You can see them by their irrepressible generosity, without which there’s nothing to do in the city of millionaires. Especially for them, you can find Russian-language magazines here, and Russian-speaking shopping assistants work in department stores. 

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The life of fashionable in Puerto Banus is famous, of course, for its shopping. The owners of boutiques Dior, Chanel, Prada and other world brands attract luxury fashionistas with exclusive offers of the latest collections. In a day here you can easily spend here more than a couple of ten thousand euros. If the family budget allows more solid spending, in Puerto Banus you can also buy a Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin, Bentley or Rolls-Royce.

Fans of culinary delights of Spanish cuisine enjoy spending time in restaurants on the waterfront. Until the sunset, residents and guests of the city enjoy the picturesque view of the swaying yachts on the water. Night clubs open their doors to their guests only at two o’clock in the morning. Near the port there are discotheques of the middle level and everyone who is decently dressed can access them. For glamorous places you have to pass a slightly tougher dress code. Such clubs include, for example, Olivia Valere, where you can face Cristiano Ronaldo on the dance floor, or Nikki Beach, known for its tough face control and crazy beach parties.

The vanity fair called Puerto Banus

After the sleepless club night, lovers of sea recreation can also go to the port, to soak up the sun a few kilometers from the shore. Those who prefer the vacation on land go for golf. There is the largest number of golf courses per meter in Europe between Puerto Banus and Marbella. The most expensive of them – La Quinta Golf & Country Club – Prince Charles came to play golf himself there. Incredible fields of 27 holes with the mountain landscape background creates a unique atmosphere, and the illumination of 27 lanterns allows you to play until late at night.

To afford such a life – you do not necessarily have to be an oil tycoon. The daily cost of a rented yacht with six crew members varies within two thousand euros. Playing golf or sea fishing is also unlikely to ruin a middle-class businessman. Instead of a palace you can rent a small villa overlooking the sea.  This way at least once a year you can participate in the vanity fair called Puerto Banus.

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