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Roots Earth in Monte-Carlo: audio stories about 7 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 7 places in Monte-Carlo, Monaco, in Europe. All 7 Monte-Carlo places have audio stories in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Monte-Carlo, 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 7 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: monte-carlo.md

The 7 places in Monte-Carlo with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Monte-Carlo Casino
  2. Monte-Carlo Opera House (Salle Garnier)
  3. Saint Charles's Church
  4. New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Sauber
  5. Mareterra
  6. Japanese Garden
  7. Larvotto Beach

Is there an audio guide for Monte-Carlo Casino?

Yes. Monte-Carlo Casino 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 7 Monte-Carlo places in the app, at 43.739161, 7.428023. Every one of the other 6 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 Monte-Carlo

Open Roots Earth and choose Monte-Carlo. The city has its own map of places with all 7 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 7 places in Monte-Carlo, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 7 places in Monte-Carlo, 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. Monte-Carlo Casino

Coordinates
43.739161, 7.428023
In one line
The Monte-Carlo Casino is the ornate resort complex in Monte-Carlo, a district named in honor of Prince Charles III. Successive architects transformed its gaming rooms and salons into a richly staged threshold between public spectacle and controlled play.

2. Monte-Carlo Opera House (Salle Garnier)

Coordinates
43.7389585, 7.4283708
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.

3. 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.

4. New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Sauber

Coordinates
43.7443936, 7.4304816
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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Larvotto Beach

Coordinates
43.745946, 7.433069
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.

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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