Fontvieille district Principality of Monaco - Monaco Nature Encyclopedia

Fontvieille district of the Principality of Monaco

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© Dr Giuseppe Mazza

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The Rocher of Monaco and Fontvieille

Monaco: the port of Fontvieille

The Tête de Chien and the Rocher of Monaco seen from the Port of Fontvieille

Monaco: view of the ward of Fontvieille

Monaco: Fontvieille residential area with, at its right, the Commercial Centre and the UNESCO Garden

Monaco: the Stamps and Coins Museum

The “Salle du Canton” gives hospitality, every two years, to the Monacophil, the prestigious international stamp exhibition.

Monaco: the Stamps and Coins Museum. Letter stamped with 3.200 F or with 6 x 1 F Charles III and a unique 25 stamps block.

Monaco: the Stamps and Coins Museum. “Douze Gros”, called “Florino”, coin and “Pistol d’or de 10 livres”, representing Prince Honoré II.

Cap d’Ail, Monaco, the Tête de Chien and the Mont Agel as seen from the sea

The Heliport of the Principality of Monaco

Monaco: the Place du Campanin in Fontvieille

Monaco: Louis II Stadium entrance and Fontvieille industrial area

Monaco: the Seaside Plaza and the Fontvieille Chapiteau, which yearly accomodates the Circus International Festival.

The Monte Carlo International Circus Festival, strongly wanted by HRH, the Prince Rainier III, attracts every year 50.000 beholders. On the track, the California Sea-lions of Pietra and Roland Duss, born in their “water farm” in Spain.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: the African elephant Kenya, trained by the German family Frankello, plays the harmonica and performs legerdemains, transforming apples into bananas.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: grace and synchronism in the extraordinary show of the Mongolian contortionists.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: the Shandong Acrobatic Group, with 21 Chinese artists which perform, from pyramidal formations, incredible vaulting and somersaults.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: Martin Lacey Junior, a modern tamer who kisses and embraces his lions, real stars of the German circus Krone.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: the flying trapeze is one of the most beautiful disciplines of the circus. Here, the Brazilian “Flying Michaels”. A show consisting even in triple blindfold somersaults …. and the protection of a net.

Monte Carlo International Circus Festival: horses riding at full gallop, with equestrian acrobats from Kirghizstan, directed by Manatbek Eshimbekov.

The winners of the 34th Monte Carlo International Circus Festival greeting the audience

Other enlargeable panoramic views of the Principality of Monaco