19 August 2007

Lush

Monaco has many beautiful gardens, havens of peace amidst the chaos of a busy Principality. Here is a lush corner of the Casino Gardens. Just beyond the greenery is the Metropole Hotel and Shopping Centre, including FNAC. To the right is the Casino. Both literally within a few metres of where we stand.

8 comments:

isa said...

Lush is the word!

That's what I liked about Paris, too - in the middle of the urban chaos, you would always find a little green square to escape to...
I think I read somewhere that with over 400 parks and gardens, Paris was named the greenest capital city in Europe!

Anonymous said...

And those green places must be very important to inhabitants, I think,but I am the inhabitant of forests :)

kuanyin333 said...

My doggy self wants to roll around on this beautiful greenery. :-) Lovely!

GMG said...

Great garden; but FNAC and Casino?Doesn't seem to make much sense together...

Jilly said...

GMG, FNAC is on the lowest floor of the Metropole shopping centre - part of the Metropole Hotel complex. It's got restaurants, bars, luxury shopping of every sort and also FNAC where everyone goes to buy anything related to computers, music, books, portable phones, camera, etc. The Casino itself is on another side of the gardens, at a right angle to this side. And on yet another side is the Hotel de Paris.

GMG said...

OK. The last time I was there was in February 1982. Don't remember a FNAC then...

• Eliane • said...

Lush is the prefect titl for this.
Isn't the FNAC in a sort of underground shopping center?

Ming the Merciless said...

It looks like a lovely tropical garden.

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