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Extract from the Monaco Travel Guides:
Monstrosities are common on the Cte d'Azur, but nowhere - not even Cannes - can outdo
MONACO
. This tiny independent principality, no bigger than London's Hyde Park, has lived off gambling and catering for the desires of the idle international rich for the last hundred years. Meanwhile, it has become one of the greatest property speculation sites in the world - a sort of low-rise Manhattan-on-Sea with an incredibly dense concentration of
fin-de-sicle
Edwardian hotels standing in for the skyscrapers.
The principality has been in the hands of the ruling Grimaldi family since the thirteenth century, and leg...
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