The Mairie de Monaco has announced its Easter programme for 2026, with two family events taking place across the holiday weekend.
On Saturday 4th April, the Jardin Exotique will host its popular plant hunt for children aged 5 to 12 who live or study in Monaco. Between 09:30 and 12:30, children will search for small plants hidden along the garden’s borders, and take home a bag of chocolate eggs on completion. Entry is free for the child and one accompanying adult, but registration is required and places are limited. To register: jardin-exotique@mairie.mc or +377 93 15 29 80.
The following day, Sunday 5th April, the Parc Princesse Antoinette will host an afternoon of Easter celebrations from 14:00 to 17:30, with face painting, creative workshops, outdoor games, mascots and a photocall. Easter decorations installed by the park’s gardeners since 20th March are already in place. Entry is free and no registration is required. Information: +377 93 15 06 03.
A new private membership platform dedicated to master artisans and their patrons launched in Monaco on Tuesday 24th March, with Alessia Demetz presenting ADM Club to press and guests in the wine cellars of the Hôtel de Paris — a setting she chose deliberately for what it represents.
“These underground spaces house some of the rarest and most celebrated bottles on the planet, where value is not proclaimed aloud, but recognised in silence,” she said. “To me, that is luxury. To know, but not to boast.”
ADM Club is designed as a curated network connecting master artisans, designers, collectors and patrons of the arts — what Demetz describes as a Renaissance court reimagined for the present day. The platform is not a marketplace in the conventional sense, but a membership environment where quality is the shared code and discretion the founding principle.
A nomadic founder with a clear vision
Demetz was born in Moldova to Italian-Austrian-Russian-Moldovan parents and spent her childhood moving between European countries — Russia, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Austria. She speaks seven languages and studied architecture in Austria, finance in Geneva, business design in Italy and brand management in Paris, before settling in Monaco a decade ago.
It was the Principality, she says, that gave her the right conditions to build what she had long envisioned. “Monaco doesn’t push me down, like other big cities do. Instead, it lifts me up. It feels like a standalone independent entity, outside the structures and constraints of the rest of Europe. It’s a place where you can express yourself, a chance to be unique.”
The life of Princess Grace was, she explains, an important reference point. “Her timeless elegance, her understatement — those are qualities I value and admire. Her essence encapsulates what it is to be feminine, powerful and free. I want ADM Club to build on that legacy; to sharpen the allure of beauty and a life lived to its elegant best.”
Alessia Demetz presented the ADM Club to the press on Tuesday in the Caves of the Hotel de Paris
A rejection of label culture
The launch was also an implicit critique of the direction luxury has taken. Demetz does not name brands, but her argument is that the label attached to an object has become a substitute for the human story behind it. “You can’t find yourself only through branded products; you need to find your own identity,” she said. “When you buy directly from an artisan using ADM Club, you’re getting much more than what you see in front of you. It’s intimate. When I touch something, I feel the threads of its story. When I meet a producer, I see the mirror of them in their product. It sparks empathy.”
She frames the mission in explicitly cultural terms. “I’m passionate about giving artisans a voice, so their identity isn’t stripped from the pieces they create. Every tiny component of a piece has a person behind it, and every person has given of their time, passion and energy.”
The club invests directly in its artisans through content creation and artistic direction, while members — founding, honorary and active — contribute financially to sustaining the ecosystem. “Our mission is to build bridges between those who excel in creation and those who genuinely seek to receive, understand, and pass on excellence — all within a protected, carefully curated space, away from noise and superficiality, focused on what truly matters,” said Demetz.
From left to right: Artisan Stefano Conticelli, Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, and ADM Club Founder Alessia Demetz. Photo credit: Cassandra Tanti
An artisan in the room
Present at the launch was Stefano Conticelli, a leather maker from Umbria whose work is among the first to be represented through ADM Club. His presence was, Demetz said, the clearest illustration of what the platform is trying to be — a place where artisans are not a footnote to the luxury conversation, but central to it.
Conticelli’s work speaks for itself. For the Hôtel de Paris, he recently designed a sculptural tableside bag holder inspired by a stylised horse — a piece created in the context of a friendship with Alain Ducasse that began with the gift of a piece called the ‘Cavallina Steph’ and has since extended to leather-bound covers for books and menus in Ducasse’s restaurants around the world, transforming what might otherwise be functional objects into works of craft.
Royal patronage
The launch was punctuated by the presence of Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, an honorary member of ADM Club, whose patronage Demetz described as a responsibility she accepts “with humility, integrity, and commitment”.
“I place my full trust in ADM Club and its founder, confident that they will provide their members with impeccable quality and an experience that genuinely enhances their well-being,” press Michel told the gathered press.
Monaco as the natural home
Alessia Demetz closed the presentation by connecting ADM Club to a longer historical tradition — from the courts of Isabella d’Este and the Medicis to Louis XIV’s Versailles — in which excellence grew through the gathering of creators, artisans and patrons around shared values. Monaco, she argued, is the natural continuation of that lineage.
“To me, integrity is something you’re not willing to sell yourself for. It’s those values that you believe in so strongly they’re an intrinsic part of your soul. I have a path with ADM Club, and a responsibility to the artisans I champion. It’s a mission, and I’ve devoted every part of my life to fulfilling it.”
ADM Club is available at adm.club and through its app on Google Play and the Apple Store.
The ACLI Monaco association is hosting a public event on 1st April to reflect on the messages delivered by Pope Leo XIV during his historic apostolic visit to the Principality on 28th March, inviting residents, institutional representatives and members of the public to take part in a collective discussion.
The gathering takes place at 16:00 at the Agora — Maison Diocésaine de Monaco, 18 rue Bellevue, and will be led by Father Claudio Benvenuti, a figure of local spiritual life, who will guide a reflection on the key themes raised by the Pope during his visit — among them international solidarity, the ethics of work and care for the environment.
The event will close with a concrete gesture: the official donation of 40 volumes from publisher DFG Lab to the Agora library, in the presence of the publishers.
Ginevra De Masi, President of ACLI Monaco, said the visit had been more than a news event. “Pope Leo XIV’s pastoral visit is not just a current event but a profound shaking of the conscience of our Principality,” she said. “This meeting with Father Claudio Benvenuti is born from the desire to inhabit the words of the Holy Father, so that they do not remain distant speeches but become a driving force for our daily commitment in the social sphere, in solidarity and in building a more united community.”
She also framed the book donation as an act of cultural purpose. “We want culture to be the bridge between spirituality and action. Valuing knowledge means offering tools of freedom and growth to all. The presence of Leo XIV reminded us that Monaco’s true wealth lies in its values and its capacity to be a laboratory of universal dialogue.”
Giovanni Di Giorgi of DFG Lab said the donation reflected the publisher’s belief in the power of storytelling. “We write sport, but we read life,” he said, describing the gift as a way of strengthening the link between publishing and the local community and placing reading at the heart of cultural life.
