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   Fontvieille

   Monaco's southern district, built in the 1970s on twenty-two hectares reclaimed from the sea — a tenth of the country's area, made from nothing. It holds the stadium, the heliport and a marina, and it is what a state does when it cannot buy land.

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   Prince's Palace of Monaco

   A Genoese fortress of 1191 that the Grimaldi took in 1297, when François Grimaldi got in dressed as a Franciscan and opened the gates — the two sword-carrying monks on the coat of arms are him. The family has held it, with interruptions, for over seven centuries.

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   Musée océanographique de Monaco

   A museum of marine science founded in 1910 by Prince Albert I, an oceanographer who paid for it out of the casino's profits and built it on a cliff eighty-five metres above the sea. Jacques Cousteau directed it for thirty-one years, and the shark lagoon is still its centrepiece.

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   Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate

   The cathedral of Monaco, built in 1875 in white stone from La Turbie on the site of an earlier church. The Grimaldi princes are buried in the choir, and the graves of Rainier III and Grace Kelly are the two that always have flowers.

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   Tropaeum Alpium

   A Roman victory monument at La Turbie, dedicated about 7 BC to Augustus for subduing the Alpine tribes — forty-five of them are named in the inscription. It stands at the highest point of the coastal road the Romans built, five hundred metres above Monaco.

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   Larvotto

   Monaco's beach district, whose sand is imported and whose beach is artificial, since the principality's natural shore is rock. It is the eastern end of the country and the swimming is public and free.

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   La Rousse

   The northernmost ward of Monaco, climbing the hillside above Monte Carlo, and the part of the country the Grand Prix circuit runs its uphill section through. The border with France is a few streets away in three directions.

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   Juan-les-Pins

   A resort in the commune of Antibes where the Riviera summer season was effectively invented in the 1920s — until then the coast emptied in June. The jazz festival held here since 1960 was the first in Europe and brought Ellington, Davis and Coltrane.

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   La Colle

   A residential area on Monaco's northwestern slope, formerly a separate ward, and one of the few parts of the principality that is simply lived in — flats, a school, a supermarket, and no view worth photographing.

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    Les Révoires

    A district on the high western side of Monaco holding the Jardin Exotique, with several thousand species of succulent grown on a cliff, and the Observatory Cave beneath it — a limestone cavern with prehistoric traces, sixty metres down.

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   Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

   A pink villa on the narrowest part of Cap Ferrat, built between 1907 and 1912 for Béatrice de Rothschild, who had it laid out with nine separate gardens — French, Spanish, Japanese, a rose garden and a cactus garden — around a house shaped like a ship's deck.

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   Marineland

   A theme park at Antibes founded in 1970 by Count Roland de la Poype. It combined a marine zoo with dolphinarium, a water park, a children's playground, a mini-golf course and a hotel; its cetacean shows ended when French law changed.

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   Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Nice

   The largest Russian Orthodox church outside Russia, finished in 1912 with six onion domes, built where the heir to the Russian throne died in 1865 while wintering here. Ownership was disputed between the emigré parish and the Russian state until a French court awarded it to Moscow.

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   Terra Amata

   A site on the slope of Mount Boron where people camped on a beach some four hundred thousand years ago, leaving one of the oldest known hearths in Europe and a footprint in the sand. A museum was built into the excavation itself.

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   Fondation Maeght

   A private modern art museum of 1964 above Saint-Paul de Vence, built by a dealer and his wife with the artists' involvement — Miró made the labyrinth of sculptures, Giacometti the courtyard, Chagall the mosaic. It is one of the best-integrated museums in Europe.

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   Nice Cathedral

   The cathedral of Nice, built between 1650 and 1685 in Piedmontese baroque with a tiled dome, since Nice belonged to Savoy and not to France. Its scale is deliberately modest against the palaces of the old town around it.

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   Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence

   A small Catholic chapel at Vence on the Côte d'Azur, dedicated to the Dominicans. It was built and decorated between 1947 and 1951 to a scheme by Henri Matisse, who considered it his masterpiece, and is known accordingly as the Matisse Chapel.

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   Picasso Museum

   The Grimaldi castle at Antibes, built on the foundations of Greek Antipolis, where Picasso worked through the autumn of 1946. He left twenty-three paintings and forty-four drawings behind, and the museum is arranged around them.

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   musée Marc-Chagall

   A French national museum in Nice devoted to the work of Marc Chagall, and particularly to the cycle of paintings he made on biblical themes. Chagall was involved in its design, and the building opened in 1973 in his lifetime.

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    Notre-Dame de Nice

    The largest church in Nice, finished in 1868 in Gothic revival with two square towers, and the first building in the city put up in the new French style after Nice voted to join France in 1860. It stands on the main avenue.

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