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Monaco,
the world, is glamour, glitter, sunshine, and palms. Indeed, these things have
made it a beacon to the international nomads-be they royalty, nobility, society,
or celebrity- since the middle of the 19th century. Charls III, Prince
of Monaco, built the casino at Monte Carlo to lure capital to this tiniest of
courtiers on the Mediterranean. One hundred and fifty years later, Prince Rainier
has taken his ancestor’s enterprising policies right to the doorstep of the 21st
century. Today, Monaco is the world’s most thoroughly modern principality. Accessible
by car, train, plane, boat (or helicopter), no more than two hours from the capitals
of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, with a brilliant climate of very
mild winters and warm, sunny summers, with rain falling less than sixty days a
year, with skinning in the Aolps only an hour’s drive away, Monaco is a dream
resort. It is also, thanks to the Grimaldis’ seven-century reign, one of the most
politically stable governments in the world today. Known for its casinos and grand
cultural cornerstones (Nijinsky came to legendary fame dancing for the Ballets
Russe de Monte Carlo,) Monaco has been built by Prince Rainier, in the last four
decades, into one of the most important banking centers in the world. A tax-free
haven for individuals, as everybody knows, with its access to a vast labor pool
from neighboring France and Italy, Monaco is developing into one of Europe’s most
important hi-tech industrial centers. First time visitors discover that Monaco
is a country and a town (for it is only a little more than one square mile in
size) that has everything, for everyone – for pleasure, for business, for comfort
and for culture.
Welcome to Monaco, welcome to the future... |
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