Month: February 2018

Monaco’s Cuomo Foundation inaugurated the Cuomo cardio-pediatric centre in Dakar, Senegal, on February 2, in the presence of France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron and Marième Sall, her Senegalese counterpart, local French language daily Monaco Matin reports.

The centre covers more than 2,200 square metres and in addition to two operating theatres has associated resuscitation, hospitalisation and consultation suites.

The centre aims to perform 500 surgical procedures a year, to make a massive difference given that between 800 and 1,000 children are born in the country each year with congenital heart disease.

Founded in 2001 in Monaco, the Cuomo Foundation, chaired by Maria Elena Cuomo, works in the fields of education, culture, and the environment.

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Monaco’s Check-up Unit with five star service: A year in review with Dr Gilles Chironi

The countdown is officially on until the opening day of Top Marques Monaco 2018, which will take place from April 19th to 22nd in Monaco’s award-winning waterfront venue, the Grimaldi Forum.

The live supercar show is held during a particularly busy time of year in the Principality of Monaco when other famous events such as the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters are also taking place. It is recommended to book accommodation as early as possible. Top Marques has an official partnership with Monaco Check-In so that exhibitors and visitors can benefit from preferential room rates.

The Top Marques organisers say that the best room rates in Monaco can be found through Monaco Check-In’s reservation page.  All of the listed hotels are situated near the Grimaldi Forum and public transport for your ease. They each provide the best service in their price category. https://resa.mci.mc/topmarquesmonaco/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2ftopmarquesmonaco%2fDefault.aspx

Another of Top Marques’ official partners – Greendriver – a luxury and ecological car hire company, offers exceptional prices from Nice Cote d’Azur International Airport to Monaco, while official partner Monacair can offer preferential rates on its luxury helicopter service from Nice Cote d’Azur Airport with the promocode TOP2018. Price: 130€ one way and 250€ return, offer valid from April 16 – 24.

Top Marques Monaco takes place from April 19-22, 2018.

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Top Marques Watches returns to the Hermitage

The latest in a long list of distinguished visitors, Professor Kevin Whelan will deliver a lecture on Dublin as a Global City, from 1600 to 2017, at the Princess Grace Irish Library on Friday, February 16.

In recent decades, national history has gone into distinct directions, moving both down into micro-history and up into an Atlantic, global dimension. This illustrated lecture is an exercise in regarding history as a panorama rather than as a close-up in considering the global positioning through space and time of a small but influential city.

It approaches the evolution of Dublin through a series of flows – of people, ideas, goods, and culture. It tracks Dublin’s rise as a ‘city of brick’, as it surged from a mere 10,000 in 1600 to 200,000 by 1800 – a response to the northwards migration of the centre of gravity of the European economy from its old Mediterranean heart to the Atlantic facade.

It anatomises Dublin under the Union, a ‘city of shadows’, as its trade, population and prospects were all constricted. It considers the influence of two global systems – Imperialism, Catholicism – on Dublin in the nineteenth century. The ‘city of words’ emerged in the early twentieth century, when Joyce, Yeats and Beckett found ways to universalise the city.

The 1916 Rising is considered, as is the exhausted city of the post-imperial phase. Finally the lecture looks at the emergence of the ‘silicon city’, and how Dublin functions as a transnational city in the current global economy. By looking at Dublin over a long time frame and in a wider geographical frame, its distinctive evolution can be tracked through comparative perspectives.

Booking is essential for the lecture, which starts at 19:30, at 9 rue Princesse Marie-de-Lorraine in Monaco Ville. Admission is 10 euros per person.

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Award-winning novelist at Princess Grace Irish Library

The Association Monegasque pour l’Amerique Latine (AMLA) is proud to announce its second event since its creation in September 2017.

“Brazilian Carnaval Happy Hour takes place on Thursday February 8, from 18:30 to 21:30, at the Meridien Beach Plaza Hotel, offering live entertainment, variation of Caipirinhas and typical finger food.

With the presence of special guests; the consulate of Brazil in Monaco, Mr and Mrs de Montigny; the renowned artist Marcos Marin who will expose some of his artwork, and in collaboration with the Hotel Meridien, AMLA invites you to join us in celebrating the Brazilian carnaval.

Let your gaze drift away with beautiful and skilful samba dancers, your taste be nurtured by Brazilian finger food and let’s get slowly in the mood of this Brazilian tradition with a variety of caipirinhas.

We look forward to sharing with you an insight into this vibrant, welcoming and diverse country of Brazil.

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A day in the life of the Prince

The Monaco Town Hall has arranged free parking at Stade Louis II for those attending the pre-election meetings on Wednesday, February 7 and Thursday, February 8, at the Gaston Medecin Omnisports Hall.

In addition, free transport is available on the Monaco bus network from 18:30 to midnight on presentation of a Monegasque identity document.

Polling in the elections to the National Council takes place on Sunday, February 11, at Espace Leo Ferre, 7, terrasses de Fontvieille. The polling station opens at 08:00 and closes at 19:00 with no lunch break. Voters should bring ID card or valid passport.

More information on the municipal elections: www.mairie.mc

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