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Roots Earth in Monaco-Ville: audio stories about 13 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 13 places in Monaco-Ville, Monaco, in Europe. All 13 Monaco-Ville places have audio stories in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Monaco-Ville, 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 13 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 31 October 2026.

Published 29 October 2026. Markdown: monaco-ville.md

The 13 places in Monaco-Ville 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. Rue Basse and the lanes of the old town
  13. 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, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 13 Monaco-Ville places in the app, at 43.7312602, 7.4198234. Every one of the other 12 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-Ville

Open Roots Earth and choose Monaco-Ville. The city has its own map of places with all 13 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, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 13 places in Monaco-Ville, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 13 places in Monaco-Ville, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 31 October 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Prince's Palace of Monaco

Coordinates
43.7312602, 7.4198234
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 the rock known as Le Rocher.

2. Palace Square

Coordinates
43.7310478, 7.4209436
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
43.7306805, 7.4255127
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
43.7300402, 7.4242832
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
43.733073, 7.4279313
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
43.730287, 7.4221739
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. Rue Basse and the lanes of the old town

Coordinates
43.7310904, 7.422464
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.

13. Museum of Old Monaco

Coordinates
43.730811, 7.422206
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 133 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people.

  • No account
  • Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection
  • Every place in all 133 cities has its audio story, a short introduction and a longer story, in all seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Albanian.

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