Day: 15 April 2018

Monaco’s traditional Sporting Summer Festival will feature fewer concerts in 2018, but among the scheduled 19 events there will be more top-level performers, according to the SBM.

Jean-René Palacio, SBM’s artistic director, told local French daily Monaco Matin that there will be shows that can be seen in Monaco but nowhere else.

Ringo Starr will open the season on July 6, for a unique concert in which he plays drums, of course, but also sings, the daily said. Other stars include Grace Jones and Rita Ora. Returning to the Salle des Etoiles will be Santana and Tom Jones. Some of the concerts will be held at the Salle Garnier, continuing a trend from last year.

Possibly the high point of the summer festival will be a five-night appearance by the Cirque du Soleil in mid-August, who will perform a show called ‘Monte-Carlo.’

“It’s a unique creation for the Principality, with Cirque du Soleil’s imagination in fifteen scenarios that evokes the history of Monte-Carlo and its casinos,” said Jean-René Palacio.

Nearly 20,000 vehicles use the A500 motorway – the junction between Monaco and the A8 motorway – daily, most often for commuting to and from the Principality. To help motorists learn more about real-time traffic conditions, the Prince’s Government, through the Urban Development Department (DAU), VINCI Autoroutes and the Nice Cote d’Azur Metropolis, has developed an electronic information system.

Travel times on the A500 motorway, the RM 6007 and roads within the Principality itself will be displayed on variable message information panels. The user will be able to estimate his time of arrival, in both directions of circulation.

To optimise this information, the Princely Government and VINCI Autoroutes, in partnership with the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, have set up eight travel time sensors, located at strategic points between the A8 motorway and the centre of Monaco, a very busy route.

In total, VINCI Autoroutes provides 12 different travel times to the DAU which manages the display. The 8 billboards allow motorists from Monaco to benefit from the main travel times between: Monaco and the A8 motorway; Monaco and a number of destinations along the A8, including Nice Airport, Cannes, and Aix-en-Provence.

From the A8 motorway to Monaco-Fontvieille and Monte-Carlo, motorists will benefit from a journey time display on several variable message signs on the A8 motorway and four signs between the A500 motorway and Monaco.

The DAU already has 30 billboards with variable messages, six in France and 24 in the Principality. It will acquire 10 more during 2018.

As part of the international and ongoing activities of the MONEYVAL Committee of Experts, a workshop was held in Monaco on April 9 and 10 by SICCFIN, the Principality’s financial regulations enforcement authority. States that are members of the Council of Europe are represented on MONEYVAL, as is the Russian Federation.

This workshop brought together financial intelligence units with missions identical to those of SICCFIN and represented a dozen countries, financial centres, members of MONEYVAL and FATF.

The purpose of the meeting was to reflect on a methodology for assessing the risk of terrorist financing in this type of jurisdiction and on the best practices to adopt to combat this risk.

Eric Ruf, General Director of the Comédie-Française, spoke on Thursday, April 12, on the topic of ‘Theatre Professions’  at the House of Oceans, in Paris, as part of the series of conferences that the Prince Pierre Foundation is organising with the overall theme of ”Outside the Walls.”

Among the audience were many distinguished guests from the world of letters and the French-speaking theatre.

The next conferences under the aegis of the Prince Pierre Foundation will take place on June 13 at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and on July 6 in Matignon, in Côtes-d’Armor. They will be led, respectively, by Dean Spielmann and Thomas Fouilleron, on the topics ‘Art and Human Rights’ and ‘Princes and Princesses of Monaco – The Advent of a Dynasty.’

Just over 250 years ago, on March 19, 1768, Giuseppe Francesco Bosio was born in Monaco. Better known under the name of François-Joseph Bosio, he became a Monegasque sculptor of international renown.

At the initiative of the Department of the Interior, the Prince’s Government wishes to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of this Monegasque sculptor, who in France was honoured with the title of “First Sculptor of the King”, in order to better promote the cultural heritage of Monaco.

To mark this anniversary and raise awareness of the work of François-Joseph Bosio, several events are scheduled for 2018, including three episodes of the “d’Art d’Art” programme on France 2 and TV5 Monde, devoted to three works by Bosio; a commemorative stamp, with a face value of 0.95 euros, representing the sculptor and one of his major works; the striking of a commemorative coin of two euros, in the quality of Belle Epreuve, representing Bosio and one of his most famous works: The Nymph Salmacis. This coin is issued by the Museum of Stamps and Coins via its website www.mtm-monaco.mc.

The New National Museum of Monaco invited the artist Oliver Laric to produce a version based on the scanning of the original marble of La Nymphe Salmacis, held by the Museum. This work, in polyurethane resin, will be exhibited at Villa Paloma until August 26.

The exhibition “François-Joseph Bosio, Monegasque sculptor” will take place from June 14 to October 14, in the Palais Princier.