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9 unusual facts about Monaco


Fontvieille

Fontvieille, Monaco, a community within Monaco consisting of land reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea

La Colle

:You may be looking for La Colle, Monaco, a district of the Principality of Monaco, or Lacolle, Quebec.

Masseron

Paul Masseron (1950- ), French civil servant (prefect) and minister (conseiller de gouvernement pour l’Intérieur) of the principality of Monaco

Monacan

Something of, from, or related to Monaco, a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe (Monaco is the name of the country as well as the name of its only city)

Monégasque

Something of, from, or related to Monaco, a small sovereign city-state located in southwestern Europe

Neocrepidodera motschulskii

Neocrepidodera motschulskii is a species of flea beetle from Chrysomelidae family that can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Andorra, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Vatican City, Yugoslavian states, and various European islands.

Oceanographic Museum

The Oceanographic Museum (Musée océanographique) is a museum of marine sciences in Monaco-Ville, Monaco.

Rock of Monaco

Today, the Rock is in the oldest of Monaco's four quarters, Monaco-Ville, which is also the location of Old Town, the oldest part of the city.

Zoological Garden of Monaco

The Jardin Animalier de Monaco are located on the Esplanade Rainer III, in Monaco's Fontvieille ward, on the southern side of the Rock of Monaco.


1958 Monaco Grand Prix

The Monaco local had won the Grand Prix 27 years earlier but Chiron and his Maserati 250F did not make it past qualifying.

2004 UEFA Champions League Final

Before 2004, Porto's last triumph in the competition had been in 1987 – although they had won the UEFA Cup the previous season – while Monaco were playing in their first ever Champions League final.

2009 Monaco Grand Prix

During the event, scenes for the 2010 film Iron Man 2 were shot, which features an historic Monaco Grand Prix race.

Albert of Monaco

Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958), son of Prince Rainier III, and the current reigning Prince of Monaco since April 6, 2005

Alexander Maximilian Seitz

The St. Anthony, and St. Benedict, as engraved by the Capuchin Bernardo da Monaco, and his Mater Amabilis aroused admiration; an enthroned Madonna went to England.

Antoine Grimaldi

Chevalier de Grimaldi (1697–1784), natural son of Antonio I, Governor General of the Principality of Monaco

Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd. is the largest business interest of retailing magnate Sir Philip Green, and is owned by his Monaco resident wife Tina to enable the company to avoid paying U.K. tax.

Artem Vakhitov

He will rematch Dzianis Hancharonak at Monte Carlo Fighting Masters 2014 in Monte Carlo, Monaco on June 14, 2014, challenging for the vacant WMC World Heavyweight (-95.0 kg/209 lb) Championship.

Beat the Drum

Premiering at the 2003 Mill Valley Film Festival, Beat The Drum won 30 international film festival awards, including the prestigious Montreal Zenith D'Or and the Monaco International Film Festival Angel Award, the festival's top honor.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Brabham BT53

Corrado replaced Teo three times in 1984, the first being Monaco when Teo was racing in Milwaukee.

Cadet branch

Also, marriage to cadet males of the Houses of Oldenburg (Holstein-Gottorp), Polignac, and Bourbon-Parma brought those dynasties patrilineally to the thrones of Russia, Monaco, and Luxembourg, respectively.

Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Monaco), Monte Carlo restaurant which opened in 1985 adjacent to Casino Café de Paris and Hôtel de Paris, with interior designed as recreation of old Monaco circa 1900

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Convention Centre Dublin

The CCD won silver in 'Best Overseas Conference Centre' in the M&IT Industry Awards 2011, second to The Grimaldi Forum in Monaco and beating Bella Center, Copenhagen and The Las Vegas Convention Center.

Damien Marsh

A native of Goondiwindi, Queensland, Marsh finest moment as a sprinter was winning the 1995 IAAF Grand Prix Final in Monaco in a time of 10.13, defeating a field of the world's top sprinters.

Daniel Biro

He studied at the Jazz Conservatory of Monaco under the direction of Roger Grosjean and the Nice University in France.

Daniel Elena

Daniel Elena is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.

East Lovejoy, Buffalo, New York

The three churches, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Agnes, and Visitation, were closed, and the Saint Francis building is used under the new name Saint Kathrine Drexel with pastor Rev. James M. Monaco.

EasyCruise

The service began by operating night-time departures calling between ports in St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Imperia, Genoa and Portofino in the summer.

Éric Besson

In April 2011, the Union for a Popular Movement selected him as its candidate in the newly created Fifth constituency for French residents overseas (covering French citizens resident in Andorra, Monaco, Portugal and Spain) for the June 2012 legislative elections.

Francesco Grimaldi

François Grimaldi (died 1309), called il Malizia ("the Cunning"), first ruler of Monaco and son of the Guelf Guglielmo Grimaldi

Game Refuge Inc.

Game Refuge clients include Electronic Arts, Midway Manufacturing, WMS Industries, Team Play Inc., Merit Industries, Monaco Entertainment, American Laser Games, Komatsu America, West Creek Studios, TouchTunes Game Studio and The 3DO Company.

Georgy Shishkin

Georgy Shishkin’s works are found in museums and private collections in many countries, notably in the Prince Palace in Monaco, in the collection of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in the collections of Luciano Pavarotti, Lord Alistair McAlpine, brothers Lords David and Frederick Barklay.

Harpalus affinis

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Heli Air Monaco

On 8 June 2004, a Heli Air Monaco Ecureuil on a scheduled flight from Monaco to Nice crashed into the sea 2.16 kilometres off Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, killing the pilot and four passengers.

Herman Rarebell

Later on, he co-created Monaco Records with Prince Albert of Monaco .

Jean-Marcel Rozier

Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco's Princely Family also rode for this team from 2001-2004.

Kara Monaco

In 2007, Monaco appeared in three episodes of Up Close with Carrie Keagan, an episode of Model Dating: Hawaii and on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, portraying Miss America for a skit.

L'Imparfait des Langues

The concert was cancelled at short notice due to the death of Monaco's Prince Rainier; without a venue, Sclavis and his group booked into a recording studio in Pernes-les-Fontaines and recorded the music in a single day.

Sclavis had received a commission to premiere a new project at the Monaco Festival Le Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo, in April 2005.

Languages of Monaco

French is the only official language in Monaco, a result of the role France has had over the microstate (see Franco-Monegasque Treaty) since the annexation of Nice and the Nizzardo (the territory surrounding Monaco), then culturally and ethnically Italian, as part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.

Laurent Nouvion

Laurent Nouvion (born March 25, 1968) is a Monegasque politician and attorney, who is currently the President of the National Council in Monaco.

Louise d'Aumont

Through their descent from Louise and her mother, the princely family of Monaco now lays claim to the wealth and estates bequeathed by Cardinal Mazarin, including the Duchy of Rethel, and the Principality of Château-Porcien.

Marta Grigorieva

Marta donated paintings to numerous charities, including British Red Cross (2009), St Paul's School Children Charity Fund in London (2008), English National Ballet (2008), Linda McCartney Centre for Breast Cancer Research Foundation (2007), Help London Child with Archant Publishing (2007), also supported victims of Cyprus through Honorary Consul for Cyprus in Monaco (2011).

Monaco Marathon

It crosses the border to France and Italy and goes along the coast to a turning point in Ventimiglia, Italy and back again to Monaco.

Monaco Music Film Festival

The Monaco Music Film Festival is held annually in Monte Carlo.

Philippe Léonard

After playing most notably for Standard Liège and Monaco, he rarely appeared for his following four teams (including Standard again) in a 16-year professional career.

Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt

Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt was born in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 12 February 1982, and she is the daughter of Fuad II (last King of Egypt) by his wife, Fadila (born Dominique-France Picard).

Providence Village, Texas

Students are zoned to Monaco Elementary School (grades PK-5) or Brockett Elementary School (grades PK-5), Aubrey Middle School (grades 6-8), and Aubrey High School (grades 9-12).

Rail transport in Monaco

The Principality of Monaco has a single railway station (Monaco-Monte Carlo) on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line.

Răzvan Florea

In the summer at the Mare Nostrum meets, he won 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals (in Monaco, Canet, Barcelona and Rome), which earned him second place in the general circuit ranking.

Rita Gam

She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her close friend Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier in Monaco.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monaco

Bernard César Augustin Barsi was appointed Archbishop of Monaco by Pope John Paul II on May 16, 2000.

Salvatore Sciarrino

Sciarrino has won many awards, among the most recent are: Prince Pierre de Monaco (2003) and the prestigious Feltrinelli Prize (2003).

The Pendragons

They also appeared in a televised Royal gala show in Monaco, which included a collaboration with Princess Stéphanie.

Tito Azzolini

In Bologna, he labored in scenography for the Teatro Comunale, and sent his pupils to study the art as it was practiced in Vienna and Monaco, specially Wagnerian works.

V-Ships

V.ships is a ship management company, part of V.Group Holdings which is registered in Monaco but headquartered in London, England; and has over 70 offices in 34 different countries.

Zero Emissions Race

Passengers included UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monaco's Prince Albert, Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.


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