Puerto Jose Banus, more commonly known as Puerto Banus is a marina in Marbella, Spain on the Costa del Sol. It was built in 1970 by Jose Banus, a local property developer, as a luxury marina and shopping complex for the jet-set and the super rich. Although the superstars have moved to more private destinations, visitors to “The Port” (as it is known by locals) tend to be extremely wealthy tourists from northern Europe (especially UK) and Arabs (especially from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) 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.Marbella travel guides.
GPS travel coordiantes: 36° 29′ 15″ N, 4° 57′ 9″ W
