Tourism : Monaco on the french riviera

Monaco

Overview

A Mediterranean country in its own right, the Principality of monaco combines tradition and ancestral values with outstanding modernity and dynamism …

Located in the south-east of France, 12 km away from the Italian border, the Principality covers a narrow coastal strip just over 4 km in length, on the Mediterranean sea shore and at the foot of the Southern Alps.
monaco benefits from a privileged climate, with more than 300 days of sunshine a year and temperatures ranging on average between 10° in winter and 25 to 30° in summer.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, monaco's economy was based on luxury tourism trade and an embryonic industrial sector. Most State revenues came from the SBM and the few businesses in Fontvieille. Under the guidance of Prince Rainier III, monaco's economy has greatly developed and diversified.

monaco by night
The Casino may be the famous aspect of monaco’s nightlife but those in-the-know are equally impressed by the dynamism of its hyper-cool night-club scene, with new trendy spots emerging all the time.
Places to drink in style in a clubbing ambiance might include: Le Black Diamond - good fun with good music till the first ray of the morning light... plus Café Grand Prix and Sass Café with live music sessions throughout the night. The world-famous Jimmy'z, rendezvous for the international jetset, at the tip of the Larvotto peninsula; The Living Room in the Avenue des Spélugues; and Karément, a hip new tapas bar on the first floor of the Grimaldi Forum, which welcomes clubbers all night long: music, lights, glittery shine and fun, stunning decor and sea view!

In the Monte Carlo Casino, Place du Casino, designed by Charles Garnier, the gaming rooms are superbly decorated with stained glass windows, sculptures and unique allegorical paintings commissioned exclusively for the Casino and realised by great painters.

SightSeeing

• Casino
  Charles Garnier, the architect of the Paris Opera House, built it in 1863. Its marble paved "atrium", surrounded with 28 Ionic columns made of onyx, gives access to the Opera Hall which is entirely[...]
• Monaco's Cathedral
  Built with white stones from La Turbie in 1875, this Roman-Byzantine style construction shelters the tombs of the deceased Princes. As for the interior decoration one may especially admire an altarpiece[...]
• Monaco's Oceanographic Museum
  Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum, founded in 1910 by Prince Albert I, holds, other than equipment used for the Prince’s oceanographic research and zoological collections brought back from scientific campaigns,[...]