Monte Carlo Weekly Photo

No shortage of roof gardens in Monaco. Here are a few in Fontvieille, which is the area of Monaco built on land reclaimed from the sea.

Ornate decoration on a building in Avenue Grande Bretagne .

Unattractive apartments galore in Monaco, seeming to grow out of the hillside. This photograph is by Nathalie from Avignon in Photos . (see...

An apartment block with its balconies reflected in the mirrored exterior of an office building - just behind the main port of Monaco. I didn...

Another interesting facade in Monte Carlo - just up from the port. Yes, Monaco has some ugly apartment buildings, but amongst them you'...

Wander around Monaco and just look up... this decorated building is just up from the port.

Isn't this a pretty bank? I posted the front of this building once before - here is a detail from the side. It stands opposite Casino...

This photograph shows the beautiful white house in the foreground - La Vigie - which you saw yesterday. It stands on the promontory called ...

This beautiful house stands, as you can see below, just above the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel on a promontory of land called Pointe de la Vie...

As you walk around Monaco, you'll sometimes see apartments with their balaconies covered in foliage - not for privacy, I'd venture ...

The pedestrian street of Monaco, rue Princesse Caroline, dressed for the holiday period. The main port is behind us.

A pot of spikey cactus at the entrance to a beautiful house adjacent to Casino Square.

Not a usual sight in the Principality of Monaco. The streets are normally pristine. Obviously the local residents had a 'very big part...

Part of the façade of a building - perhaps in need of a clean-up - just around the corner from the market.

This nicely proportioned building, with its pretty wrought-iron balconies and tall windows, is just behind the police station in Monaco - a...

Unusual 'port-hole' windows in a building near to the walking street of Monte Carlo. Presumably they'd be the bathrooms or loos...

This building is a couple of streets in from the main port of Monaco.

Did you think I'd made a mistake and posted a Menton photograph on Monte Carlo DP? Not so, this is one of the many small streets tuck...

I couldn't resist this mixture of a modern facade reflecting the old buildings opposite. The sky appears to have windows that open. Now...

Isn't this a pretty bank? I suppose it doesn't matter where we put our money - or our overdraft - but I'd think it would be ra...