Monte Carlo Weekly Photo

Rather him than me!  No health and safety here ...  Note the stones on the lower part of the roof. You often see this on a roof i...

Don't you just love that a verse from Dante's Divine Comedy is engraved on a wall in La Turbie?  You see this near to the pos...

We're in the village of La Turbie today - way above Monaco. Let's hope the dog can read and if not, that his owner takes due no...

A moody view of the Trophy des Alpes taken from La Turbie. You can see how it dominates the landscape. In his Naturalis Historia, Pliny the ...

In 13 BC the Emperor Augustus planned a new coast road into Gaul (Provence). This road became the Via Julia Augustus (or Via Julia, later ...

The Trophy of the Alpes celebrates the Emperor Augustus' conquest of the Gaulish Tribes between 25 and 14 B.C. From the Col de la Turbi...

The museum, alongside the Trophy, is excellent and you'll find this model of the monument as it was when it was built in the first centu...

Anyone visiting Monaco and this part of the French Riviera can't have missed seeing the 'Trophy of the Alpes' at La Turbie, whic...

Isn't this old door in La Turbie wonderful? If you open it, you'll find a car inside. It's simply a garage. There has to be a ...

Soon after entering the old village of La Turbie, you'll find this pretty old shop, Magie de Vitrail , where you'll find all sorts o...

Bringing home the bacon...or is it the lamb? Street scene in La Turbie.

'Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.' ~ Fernand Leger

Reflections in a restaurant window in La Turbie.

Don't you love the carved street names...

A 13th century entrance and gateway in La Turbie - charming, apart from the graffiti.

Ever wondered why the old people live so long in France? Maybe it's the good food and red wine. I think it's all the walking up s...

This poster, fixed to an old gate, says 'Me too, I love clean sidewalks when I'm rolling.' You'll see many posters lik...

'When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.' ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Take a rope and an old log and you have a great game. This hidden corner in La Turbie has been transformed into a children's play are...

It's incredibly hot in Monaco at the moment. In fact, the French Riviera is under a ' canicule ' (heatwave) watch - which mea...