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View from the edge of the castle looking over the housing in Monaco. Two photos stitched together to give the wider panoramic.
Another early morning shoot in Monaco.
Shot with Samyang 12mm f/2
Horizontally I used a little more than the cropped sensor
From the top of a cliff overhanging Monaco, the landscape offers an awesome view till Italy. The high density of buildings along the coast is the cause of both an irreversible destruction of local ecosystems ( terrestrial and oceanic ones as well) and of an intense air pollution. (HDR picture, f:7mm).
Two more uploads from the top of the hill, near Monaco-Ville.
This was a lovely view of the buildings in La Condamine, Monte Carlo and Carre d'Or. This hill walk seems to be within the area of La Condamine, which surrounds the Port Hercule. You can see the marquees and fences that were obscuring our ground level views.
Monaco.
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Das Fürstentum Monaco ist ein südeuropäischer Stadtstaat und nach der Vatikanstadt der zweitkleinste Staat der Erde.
Der moderne und extrem dicht besiedelte Staat liegt an der französischen Mittelmeerküste (Côte d’Azur) nahe der Grenze zu Italien.
When we stopped here in Monaco, we had an Uber drop us off. He asked where we wanted to be left and I just said, “The harbor where all the boats are.” Then he told me there were two of them, and I had no idea. I picked the wrong one… I picked the one that is more boring and there's really not much around it. But, in the good news category, it gave me an excuse to climb this mini-mountain to get this shot right after dinner and then explore some more.
No. I did not go to the casino! Promise!
Monaco's name comes from the nearby 6th-century BC Phocaean Greek colony. Referred to by the Ligurians as Monoikos, from the Greek "μόνοικος", "single house", from "μόνος" (monos) "alone, single"[13] + "οἶκος" (oikos) "house",[14] which bears the sense of a people either settled in a "single habitation" or of "living apart" from others. According to an ancient myth, Hercules passed through the Monaco area and turned away the previous gods.[15] As a result, a temple was constructed there, the temple of Hercules Monoikos. Because the only temple of this area was the "House" of Hercules, the city was called Monoikos.[16][17] It ended up in the hands of the Holy Roman Empire, which gave it to the Genoese. An ousted branch of a Genoese family, the Grimaldi, contested it for a hundred years before actually gaining control. Though the Republic of Genoa would last until the 19th century, they allowed the Grimaldi family to keep Monaco, and, likewise, both France and Spain left it alone for hundreds of years. France did not annex it until the French Revolution, but after the defeat of Napoleon it was put under the care of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In the 19th century, when Sardinia became a part of Italy, the region came under French influence again but France allowed it to remain independent. Like France, Monaco was over-run by the Axis powers during the Second World War and for a short time was administered by Italy, then the Third Reich, before finally being liberated. Although the occupation lasted for just a short time, it meant the deportation of the Jewish population and execution of several resistance members from Monaco. Since then Monaco has been independent. It has taken some steps towards integration with the European Union. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco
Principauté de Monaco
Principato di Monaco
Principatu de Mùnegu
Principality of Monaco
26th of May 1967 was the release of
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