THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SHIPYARDS
Each year, the Yachting Festival offers visitors and exhibitors a choice setting: in the bay of Cannes, just a stone’s throw from the old town and next to the Palais des Festivals, the Show stretches out over two harbours, Port Canto and Vieux Port.
Vieux Port, one of the oldest harbours on the French Riviera, each year welcomes prestigious exhibits and presented by the world’s largest shipyards. The image would be incomplete without the Lérins islands facing it. The port is bordered to the west by the boarding quay for the islands and to the east by the famous Albert-Edouard jetty along the Palais des Festivals, providing more than half a kilometer of quayside to accommodate all the large yachts.
Vieux Port is also the setting of the Luxury Gallery, an area dedicated to luxury and the art of living.
Entirely dedicated to those in the motor industry with 535 prestigious new motor boats ranging from 5 to 48 metres in-water in length, the Vieux Port presents 4 areas: