 | | 2018-08-10 12:24
From blog Sara Nena
Monaco, holiday in French Riviera
Here we came back with the last post of the French Riviera's guide, today we are tackling the Principality of Monaco, that is a microstate to all effects. The name Monaco comes from the Greek term μόνοικος (alone\single + house). The myth says that Hercules passed by and turned away all the previous gods. As a result, they built him a temple that was the only one in the area (single house). The history of the Principality starts in the 1297, when Francesco Grimaldi dressed as a Franciscan monk hid a sword in the cassock, and when they let him in, he conquered the rock of Monaco (Rocher). That's why there is a statue of a monk at the entrance of the old...
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