Monaco.
Two square kilometers that hold the whole idea. The Casino, the harbor, the circuit through the streets, and the nights the world arrives.
Two square kilometers that hold the whole idea. The Casino, the harbor, the circuit through the streets, and the nights the world arrives.
1863The Casino de Monte-Carlo opens
The Société des Bains de Mer was founded in Monaco in 1863 and opened the Casino de Monte-Carlo the same year. Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera, built its opera hall, the Salle Garnier, which opened in 1879. The Hôtel de Paris opened across the square in 1864, and its Bar Américain is still where an evening in Monte-Carlo begins.
1974Jimmy'z opens
Le Louis XV, Alain Ducasse's dining room at the Hôtel de Paris, holds 3 Michelin stars. Jimmy'z, the club Régine opened in 1974, carries on at the Sporting. La Rascasse sits on the corner of the Grand Prix circuit it gives its name to.
Along the coast, Saint-Tropez has had Club 55 on Pampelonne beach since 1955, and Cannes fills for the film festival every May.
1929The first Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix was first run in 1929, on the streets it still uses: up from Sainte-Dévote to Place du Casino, down through the hairpin and the tunnel, and along the harbor. Every second year, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique brings the older cars back to the same circuit.
1953The Yacht Club de Monaco is founded
The Yacht Club de Monaco was founded in 1953, and Prince Albert II has been its president since 1984. In 2014 it moved into a clubhouse on the harbor by Norman Foster, built like the decks of a liner. Every September since 1991, the Monaco Yacht Show fills Port Hercule with superyachts.
1954The first Bal de la Rose
The Bal de la Rose was first held in 1954, and has raised money for the Princess Grace Foundation since 1964. It takes place every March in the Salle des Étoiles at the Sporting Monte-Carlo. The Red Cross Ball follows in summer.
1929The first Monaco Grand Prix
Sources. Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer · Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Salle Garnier · Automobile Club de Monaco · Yacht Club de Monaco · Monaco Yacht Show · Visit Monaco, Bal de la Rose · Festival de Cannes. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
In 1863, the year the Société des Bains de Mer was founded.
Its opera hall by Charles Garnier opened in 1879.
In 1864, on Place du Casino.
It was first run in 1929.
Every January.
It was first held in 1911.
Every September, in Port Hercule.
It began in 1991.
Every March, in the Salle des Étoiles at the Sporting Monte-Carlo.
It was first held in 1954.
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