# Roots Earth in Monaco: audio stories about 30 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/monaco Published: 16 September 2026 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. ## 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. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Europe in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#europe): every city in Europe with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - Monaco is the only Roots Earth city in Monaco. 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