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Roots Earth in Monaco: audio stories about 30 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 30 places in Monaco, Monaco, in Europe. The Monaco stories are in English and German only: Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian are in 126 of the 130 Roots Earth cities, and Monaco is not one of them. The app needs no account: open Monaco, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 30 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: monaco.md

The 30 places in Monaco with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Prince's Palace of Monaco
  2. Palace Square
  3. Monaco Cathedral
  4. Chapel of Mercy
  5. Chapel of the Visitation
  6. Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
  7. Saint Martin Gardens
  8. Fort Antoine
  9. Major Ramp and Porte Neuve
  10. Palace of Justice
  11. Princess Grace Irish Library
  12. La Condamine Market
  13. Port Hercules and its floating breakwater
  14. Church of Sainte-Dévote
  15. Prince of Monaco's Car Collection
  16. Monte-Carlo Casino
  17. Monte-Carlo Opera House (Salle Garnier)
  18. Saint Charles's Church
  19. New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Sauber
  20. Mareterra
  21. Japanese Garden
  22. Princess Grace Rose Garden and Fontvieille Park
  23. Stade Louis II
  24. Museum of Stamps and Coins
  25. Exotic Garden of Monaco
  26. Observatory Cave and Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology
  27. Monaco Cemetery
  28. Rue Basse and the lanes of the old town
  29. Larvotto Beach
  30. Museum of Old Monaco

Is there an audio guide for Prince's Palace of Monaco?

Yes. Prince's Palace of Monaco has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English and German.

It is place 1 of the 30 Monaco places in the app, at 43.7306388, 7.4253201. Every one of the other 29 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Monaco

Open Roots Earth and choose Monaco. The city has its own map of places with all 30 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English and German, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 30 places in Monaco, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 30 places in Monaco, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English and German. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Prince's Palace of Monaco

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
The Grimaldi family’s working palace layers a classical residence over a medieval Genoese fortress. Its towers, ceremonial courtyard and state rooms embody more than seven centuries of dynastic rule on Le Rocher.

2. Palace Square

Coordinates
43.7325, 7.41944444
In one line
Monaco’s ceremonial forecourt joins fortress architecture, broad views and the working ritual of the princely guard. Palace Square is both an everyday public space and the principality’s most prominent civic stage.

3. Monaco Cathedral

Coordinates
43.7302201, 7.4226809
In one line
Monaco’s pale stone cathedral unites national worship, Grimaldi memory and an altarpiece preserved from its medieval predecessor. Its restrained princely tombs, historic paintings and striking modern organ reward close attention.

4. Chapel of Mercy

Coordinates
43.731183, 7.423442
In one line
This compact Baroque chapel is the historic home of Monaco’s penitential brotherhood. Gilded carving, processional sculpture and polychrome marble preserve a living tradition of charity, devotion and public ritual.

5. Chapel of the Visitation

Coordinates
43.73170278, 7.42507222
In one line
This 17th-century convent chapel now forms part of Lycée Albert the First. Its restrained Baroque façade conceals a history of religious foundation, revolutionary conversion, education and a vanished loan collection.

6. Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Coordinates
43.73097, 7.424815
In one line
Prince Albert the First’s monumental museum rises from Le Rocher as both marine research institution and public spectacle. Its collections unite expedition history, ocean science, aquariums and conservation.

7. Saint Martin Gardens

Coordinates
43.73972222, 7.42722222
In one line
Monaco's first public garden winds down the southern slope of Le Rocher in a sequence of shaded terraces, Mediterranean planting, sculpture and sudden sea views. Its creation turned hardship relief into a lasting civic landscape.

8. Fort Antoine

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
An eighteenth-century gun position rebuilt after wartime destruction, Fort Antoine now combines ramparts, a watchtower silhouette and an open-air stage. Its sea-facing amphitheatre turns Monaco's former eastern defence into a place for performance.

9. Major Ramp and Porte Neuve

Coordinates
43.7316338, 7.4215052
In one line
This steep switchback passage is the old pedestrian ascent from La Condamine to Le Rocher. Brick chevrons, close retaining walls and fortified gates turn an everyday climb into a compressed journey through Monaco's defensive past.

10. Palace of Justice

Coordinates
43.73097, 7.424815
In one line
This purpose-built interwar courthouse expresses Monaco's judiciary in marine tufa, rusticated stone and ceremonial stairs. Raised beside the cathedral on an older religious site, it gives the compact state an imposing civic face.

11. Princess Grace Irish Library

Coordinates
43.73127778, 7.42388889
In one line
A modest Monaco-Ville townhouse holds a working library devoted to Ireland and to Princess Grace's family heritage. Books, music, portraits and personal acquisitions turn dynastic remembrance into an active collection for readers and researchers.

12. La Condamine Market

Coordinates
43.73548757, 7.42112445
In one line
La Condamine Market is a daily social institution rooted in Place d'Armes, older than any hall built to contain it. Produce, prepared food and neighbourhood conversation keep a nineteenth-century municipal foundation tied to ordinary Monaco.

13. Port Hercules and its floating breakwater

Coordinates
43.735, 7.426
In one line
Port Hercules is Monaco’s deep-water harbour, sheltered by the immense Rainier III breakwater. Its deceptively low concrete profile conceals the maritime engineering that made room for cruise ships, superyachts and hundreds of smaller craft.

14. Church of Sainte-Dévote

Coordinates
43.737506, 7.420976
In one line
This modest church marks the devotional heart of Monaco’s bond with its patron saint. Its relic shrine, princely associations and annual boat-burning ceremony layer documented history with a much older maritime legend.

15. Prince of Monaco's Car Collection

Coordinates
43.7354011, 7.4218114
In one line
This purpose-built portside museum presents the Prince of Monaco’s collection of road, ceremonial and competition vehicles. Its machines trace changing technology while preserving journeys, weddings and racing stories linked to Monaco’s rulers.

16. Monte-Carlo Casino

Coordinates
43.738821, 7.426994
In one line
The Monte-Carlo Casino is the ornate resort complex from which an entire district took its name. Successive architects transformed its gaming rooms and salons into a richly staged threshold between public spectacle and controlled play.

17. Monte-Carlo Opera House (Salle Garnier)

Coordinates
43.73972222, 7.42722222
In one line
Attached to the casino, the Salle Garnier compresses a grand opera house into an intimate seaside auditorium. Its gilded balconies, painted allegories and extraordinary construction story reveal spectacle shaped by speed, ambition and repeated adaptation.

18. Saint Charles's Church

Coordinates
43.7426, 7.4273
In one line
Saint Charles’s Church is the parish monument of Monte-Carlo’s nineteenth-century growth. Its Renaissance design shelters an older organ case rescued from a vanished church, linking the new resort district to worship on the Rock.

19. New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Sauber

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
One of Monaco’s last Belle Époque villas, Villa Sauber pairs a rare architectural survivor with the Principality’s national museum. Its layered history links casino-era owners, an artist’s studio, historic dolls and automata, and contemporary art.

20. Mareterra

Coordinates
43.7409954, 7.431736
In one line
Mareterra is a six-hectare district built into the Mediterranean, enlarging Monaco with homes, gardens, a marina and public waterfront. Its polished landscape rests on immense marine engineering designed with habitats below the waterline.

21. Japanese Garden

Coordinates
43.742325, 7.43097778
In one line
This carefully composed Japanese garden transforms a concrete platform into a landscape of pond, stream, islands, bridges and trained Mediterranean trees. Created for Prince Rainier the Third, it realizes a wish expressed by Princess Grace.

22. Princess Grace Rose Garden and Fontvieille Park

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
The Princess Grace Rose Garden is a living memorial set within, but distinct from, the larger Fontvieille Park. Roses, old olive trees, water and sculpture connect royal remembrance with an everyday public landscape.

23. Stade Louis II

Coordinates
43.7275, 7.415555
In one line
Nine monumental arches frame Monaco’s multi-sport complex, where a football pitch and athletics track sit above parking and services. The stacked design answers the Principality’s shortage of level ground.

24. Museum of Stamps and Coins

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
Monaco’s postal and monetary history unfolds through stamps, coins, proofs, dies and imposing production machinery. Built from Prince Rainier the Third’s collections, the museum shows how a small sovereign state represents itself in miniature.

25. Exotic Garden of Monaco

Coordinates
43.73097, 7.424815
In one line
Clinging to a cliff above La Condamine, this historic garden turns a vast succulent collection into a landscape of terraces, bridges and belvederes, uniting botanical spectacle with remarkable views across Monaco.

26. Observatory Cave and Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology

Coordinates
43.7327021, 7.4138441
In one line
A limestone cave and a scientific museum share this cliffside site, pairing mineral formations deep inside the rock with tools, bones and burials that illuminate an immense span of human prehistory.

27. Monaco Cemetery

Coordinates
43.73793791, 7.42341918
In one line
Terraced into the hillside above Fontvieille, Monaco’s municipal cemetery combines marble tombs, covered galleries and intimate memorials, preserving stories of individual lives, wartime loss and changing funerary customs.

28. Rue Basse and the lanes of the old town

Coordinates
43.77582, 7.50275
In one line
Rue Basse threads through Monaco-Ville as a narrow, lived-in lane where bilingual signs, exposed paving and closely set doorways preserve the old town’s distinctive scale and Monegasque memory.

29. Larvotto Beach

Coordinates
43.743832, 7.431757
In one line
Larvotto is a carefully designed public beachfront, combining a pebble shore and curving promenade with solar-shading canopies, accessible facilities and a protected marine habitat offshore.

30. Museum of Old Monaco

Coordinates
43.7306388, 7.4253201
In one line
Set within a former Monaco-Ville house, this intimate museum preserves Monegasque identity through domestic rooms, uniforms, ceramics, language and everyday objects gathered by the principality’s traditions committee.

Roots Earth in short

Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people.

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