The
October 2008 festival's venue is The
Puente
Romano Hotel,
with its
most exclusive and luxury facilities. Screenings take place in the Hotel and at the Cines Gran Marbella in Puerto Banus.
The
Hotel has 27 separate 3 story buildings offering very large guest
rooms and suites, all with private terraces overlooking the sub
tropical gardens. Some of the brightest names in tourism, entertainment, music, politics and Royal Houses have been guests at Hotel Puente Romano: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Alain Delon, Barbara Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Tom Jones, Ray Charles, the Empress Farra Diba, Count Jaime de Mora and Aragon, Simoneta Gomez-Acebo, Isabel Preysler, Julio Iglesias, Melanie
Griffiths and Antonio Banderas are just a sampling of these.
Hotel
Puente Romano is surrounded by 55.000
square meters (120.000 square feet) of subtropical award winning
gardens. Streams, ponds, waterfalls and lush vegetation make strolling
through them a relaxing and gratifying experience in which you
can admire over 400 different species of plants and flowers, many
brought from around the world by courtesy of Prince Alfonse Van
Hohenlohe.