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The 2024 Fort Antoine Open Stage Talents at the Fort - Call for entries for the Organising Committee
The Fort Antoine open stage, dedicated to artists aged between 18 and 30 and organised by Monaco's Department of Cultural Affairs, will return in July 2024 and the local youth are invited to help organise the event!
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The annual bitter orange harvest
Gardeners from the Department of Urban Amenities (DAU) are about to start the annual harvest of the Principality's bitter orange trees.The Principality has 1,011 citrus trees (orange, lemon, clementine, etc.), including 580 untreated bitter orange trees (December 2023 census).From January to February each year, DAU...
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A new season for 'The Travelling Collection'
Since 2002, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco has conserved 4,000 stage costumes and 400 set designs from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, donated by Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer. In addition to this Heritage Collection, the museum also has a 'Study Collection’, comprising around sixty items from the Travelling...
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H.S.H. the Prince's Palace Guards hand out teddy bears to sick children
On Thursday, 21 December, five of H.S.H. the Prince's Palace Guards, accompanied by Captain Hervé Matu, representing the Chief of Corps, visited the children's ward at the Princess Grace Hospital to give teddy bears dressed in uniform to children in hospital.H.S.H. the Prince's guards regularly participate in activi...
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The Monaco Scientific Centre raises awareness in Year 6 pupils about preserving Mediterranean red coral
Since the start of the school year, the Monaco Scientific Centre (CSM) has been working with around ten Year 6 classes to raise awareness among young people of the need to preserve the Red Coral. At the end of these specially created workshops, organised in collaboration with the Department of Education, Youth and S...
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Monaco attends the 91st INTERPOL General Assembly in Vienna
The 91st General Assembly of INTERPOL took place in Vienna, Austria from 28 November to 1 December 2023. The Principality was represented by a delegation led by Patrice Cellario, Minister of the Interior, and composed of Richard Marangoni, Police Commissioner and Head of the INTERPOL Monaco National Central Bureau;...
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Prizes awarded in the shop window competition
The Union of Shopkeepers and Craftspeople of Monaco took part in the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Prince Rainier III by helping with the window-dressing competition begun by the Commemoration Committee and its President, H.S.H. Princess Stephanie.H. E. Mr Pierre Dartout rewarded the shopkeepers who...
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Tribute to Professor Yves Coppens at UNESCO
On 12 December at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Deputy Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Xing Qu, a tribute was paid to Professor Yves Coppens, former Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the Monaco Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology, who passed away on 2...
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Monaco’s participation in the 174th session of the FAO Council
From 4 to 8 December, the Principality took part as an observer in the 174th session of the Council of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held in Rome.Reflecting the discussions taking place at the same time in Dubai at COP 28, Mr QU Dongyu, Director-General of the FAO, stated that the transf...
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Monaco takes part in the high-level segment and closing session of the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai
From 8-10 December 2023, Ms Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, travelled to Dubai to take part in the high-level segment of the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28).She was accompanied by Mr Patrick Rolland...
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