With its casino, palaces and luxuriant gardens, the name Monte Carlo is synonymous with gambling and the high life. Developed in the late 19C by the Bains de Mer company, Monte Carlo is today a tightly packed haven of rich villas and buildings. To th..

Clinging to the cliff, offering a view that extends as far as the Italian Riviera, the Jardin Exotique provides a rare change of scenery, with 900 varieties of beautiful semi-arid plants. Species include hundred-year-old cacti, euphorbias, giant al..

Overlooking the sea, the rock (rocher) is crowned with the ramparts of the old town and has an almost theatrical feel. The attractive 16C-18C houses, all painted in the same bright salmon pink, are huddled together in a maze of pretty narrow streets...

The main attraction of the Oceanographic Museum is the spectacular aquarium , which houses 6 000 specimens. The highlight here is the “lagoon”, an incredible reconstruction of a coral reef inhabited by large marine predators. Other interesting secti..

An oasis of palm trees, the casino terrace offers a splendid view of the coastline from Monaco to Bordighera. The surrounding gardens, adorned by the Hexa Grace , a work by Vasarely in enamelled volcanic rock, were laid out on the rooftops of the Sp..

Occupying one of the wings of the palace, the Napoleon museum houses objects which belonged to the emperor, whose Florentine family were distantly related to the royal family of Monaco. Amongst the snuffboxes, watches, opera glasses, and ceremonial g..

The somptuous Grimaldi palace was built in the 17C on a Genoan forteress from the 13C that was joined to the rock. The very beautiful Honorary Court of the Hercules Gallery, is to be admired; decorated with frescoes by Ferrari, on and three million..

It would be a shame to miss the changing of the guard which takes place in the palace square at 11h 55 precisely. In the square, you will see cannons from the Louis XIV period, flanked on one side by the promenade Sainte-Barbe , which dominates the ..

Presented in a very scholarly manner, the museum's prehistoric Anthropology collections recall the lives of the Côte d'Azur's first settlers. They include an impressive number of Homo sapien , skelletons, some of which are of Grimaldi negroids, in a..

In the Saint-Martin gardens, Mediterranean foliage scents the shaded streets which provide narrow passages onto the seafront. Here you will see a bronze statue of Albert 1, sculpted by François Cogné in 1951, and the relics of the Saint-Nicolas churc..

Monaco, the birthplace of motorsport, was long overdue a museum in honour of the motorcar. The exhibition centre has five levels and in addition to Prince Charles III's barouches you can see a series of vehicles that explain technological development..

It was Princess Grace who had this garden designed. It is an oasis of green. Here, everything is symbolic. Some of the arrangements follow Shintoïstes ideals. Case in point is the arched bridge which is red to represent happiness and which takes y..

This Neo-Roman style cathedral houses an ambulatory, and some beautiful early Niçois paintings . The great retable de Saint-Nicolas , with its 17 compartments in bright colours is the work of Louis Bréa (16C), and is similar to the retable named th..

This huge bay was an important stop for the phoceans and then the Romans. Today occupying the same site the Condamine port developed by Albert 1 at the start of the 20C, harbours the coast's most luxurius yachts. Beside the town's main shoping area, ..

Not only a residence for the sometimes bright green feathered parrots, but also a an amazing colourful home for rhesus monkeys, pythons, jaguars and other aninals... Adored by childern, this park situated high on the rock gives you a beautiful view o..

The rue Grimaldi is the central street of the Condamine quarter and runs from the place Sainte-Dévote to the place d'Armes, below Rocher, where where a market is held every morning. The orange trees which line this very busy shopping street give it a..

The Misericord chapel was built built by the Brotherhood of the black penitents in 1646. Inside, note is the beautiful statue of recumbent statue of Christ, sculpted par the Monocan Bosio at teh end of the 18C. During the Good Friday festival, the st..

The Stamp and Coin Museum set up in a modern building houses interesting and princely collection, the main attraction of which is the set of beautiful triangular-shaped coins. The oldest coins, which boast the inscription "Monaco", date fro..

In this museum there are about a hundred model ships to see, from ancient times to the present day. Originating from the Price's collection, some of oldest models in the collection were constructed by Albert I himself, in 1874. One of the most striki..

This landscaped garden spread over 4 hectares in the Fonteville district, is set around a beautiful expanse of water and is home to plants from all around the world. It boasts the famous "Princess Grace" rose-garden, in which you will find ..