Costa Smeralda to serve as floating stage for the Sanremo Music Festival

Each evening during the Sanremo Music Festival, Costa Smeralda will host a live broadcast show for the popular music event. For the occasion, Costa has organized the most sensational and exclusive cruise-event ever, featuring the best of Italian music, gastronomy, pastry and comedy.

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From 7 to 11 February 2023 Costa Cruises will be back in Sanremo for the Sanremo Music Festival, Italy’s most famous musical event.

For the second consecutive year, a ship of the Italian-flagged company will be the ‘floating stage’ for fantastic live shows. Every night Costa Smeralda will host extraordinary artists, whose performances will engage the audience to have fun and dance, in the unique location of the ship shining at anchor in front of Sanremo.

“Our presence in Sanremo will be even more spectacular than last year. From our floating stage you will see just how much fun you can have on a ship like the Costa Smeralda, because we will be hosting more than just performances: they will be moments where guests can dance, sing, feel good together with others and experience emotions to remember,” – said Mario Zanetti, President of Costa Cruises.

To mark this unique event, Costa Cruises has organized the most exclusive and sensational cruise-event ever, dedicated to a selection of its best Italian travel agents, and to a selection of its Italian clients and members of C|Club, the company’s loyalty club. Nine days and eight nights, from February 4 to 12, 2023, aboard the Costa Smeralda, at anchor in front of the beautiful landscape of Sanremo, during which guests will experience the best of Italian music, the best of Italian gastronomy, the best of Italian pastry and the best of Italian comedy.

A program of events never seen before on a cruise ship, in which Costa wanted to bring together the presence of partners of excellence with whom the brand usually collaborates, and who make its cruises special. In addition to the truly unique opportunity to attend live broadcasts, experiencing the most popular Italian music event of the year from its ‘floating stage,’ guests on board will be able to enjoy exclusive experiences created for the occasion, which will change daily.

Costa Smeralda’s cruise program includes special guests, tastings, previews, workshops, and sports courses, only with the best experts among Costa’s partners of excellence. Furthermore, Costa Smeralda guests will also be able to go ashore and experience the atmosphere of Sanremo during this special period, as well as discover the beauty of the town and Ligurian area.

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