Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
The Costa Smeralda provides a stunning setting and a variety of challenging conditions for the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, one of the highlights of the mediterranean yachting season. The first Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (known then as the Maxi World Championship) was held in Sardinia in 1980.
The brainchild of the yacht club Costa Smeralda and its president, the Aga Khan, the regatta is now an eagerly anticipated annual event attracting a sizeable fleet of majestic maxi yachts to Porto Cervo each September.
Porto Cervo has a well-equipped marina consisting of two ports: The Old Port (Porto Vecchio) and the Modern Marina. The village itself was designed in the 1950-1960s by architects and landscape designers such as Jacques Couelle, Luigi Vietti and Michele Busiri Vici. Porto Cervo Marina has 700 berths, with 100 slips reserved for megayachts, and accepts reservations.