Puerto Banus
A small guide to Puerto Banus
The focal point of Puerto Banus is the marina. It has berths for 915 boats, including those of the King of Saudi Arabia and several of the world's wealthiest individuals. Behind the harbour lie streets filled with bars and nightclubs and behind this the main square, featuring a vast El Corte Inglés department store.
The marina has 915 slips for boats and ships from 8 to 50 meters. Its surface area is 15 hectares, and its depth ranges from 3 to 6 meters within the marina, with 7.5 meters at its entrance. There is beach on each side of the marina. Many of the yachts moored within can enjoy an unobstructed view of La Concha mountain, one of the coast's landmarks.
José Banús himself was a developer with real estate holdings all along the coast. He was an intimate of Francisco Franco's and was called el constructor del régimen ("the regime's builder").
The days of the jet-set glamour have largely disappeared as the rich and famous have found new playgrounds where their exclusivity and privacy are more easily protected. Today visitors to 'The Port' (as it is known by locals) tend to be tourists from northern Europe (especially UK and Germany) as well as holiday-making Spaniards.
A three-ton statue of a rhinoceros by Salvador Dalí was placed in Puerto Banús in 2004. Officially known as Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas, Dalí created the sculpture in 1956 following the filming of his surrealist movie La aventura prodigiosa de la encajera y el rinoceronte in 1954.
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