Monaco City
Despite being located in the middle of the City of Monaco, the world’s most densely populated urban center, Monaco City remains a medieval village at heart, made up almost entirely of quiet pedestrian streets and marked by virtual silence after sundown.
Though innumerable people visit Monaco City and the palace square, only local vehicles are allowed up to the Rock, and gasoline-powered motorcycles are prohibited after 10 p.m.
- Prince’s Palace of Monaco. The colorful changing of the guard occurs every day outside the Palais at 11:55 a.m.
- Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate (French: Cathédrale de Monaco), a Romanesque-Byzantine Catholic church that contains the remains of many members of Monaco’s ruling family.
- The Oceanographic Museum, established by Albert I, Prince of Monaco in 1910.
- Chapel of Mercy, built in 1639, one of the oldest buildings in the principality. It is famous for being the starting point of a torchlit religious procession by local residents that takes place on the eve of Good Friday each year.
- St Martin Gardens, a small park of rocky paths that cling to the rock.
- Museum of the Chapel of Visitation, a 17th-century Roman Catholic chapel and art museum.
- Fort Antoine Theatre, an amphitheater at the bottom of the rock.
