Monaco
The city of Monaco
Monaco is a sovereign city state on the Cote d'Azur (French Riviera). It
is surrounded on three
sides by its neighbor, France, and its centre is about 16 km from
Italy. Its area is 1.98 sq kms
with a population of 36,000 as of 2011. Monaco boasts the world's highest
GDP nominal per capita
at $215,163 and is the most densely populated country in the world. Monaco
also has the world's
top life expectancy at almost 90 years.
(Reference:Wikipedia)
 
Gare de Monaco, underground station. All rail services are operated by
SNCF.
  
Monaco Monte Carlo station and underground passage to the city
 
(L) Marlboro advertisement posted in the underground passage of Monaco
station.
(R) A signboard showing that the Monaco law prohibits smoking in the closed
public area since November 2008.
This picture was taken at the front desk of Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo.
  
(L) In the Beach of Monaco, rising sea wave was observed under the building
of the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel.
(M) A front view of Fairmont hotel
(R) Warm, dry summers and mild, short rainy winters reflecting a sea-side
park in Monaco
 
Monte Carlo Casino
  
(L) Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo (R) Port Palace Hotel Monaco
Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo, just next to the Monte Carlo Casiono, has the
182 guest rooms
in total. Fourty rooms are non-smoking and they are located on the 1st
and 2nd floor.
In all other rooms of the hotel, a guset can smoke. Smoking rooms accounts
to142,
and the percantage to the total rooms is 78.0%.
Fairmont Hotel Monte Carlo, located directly facing the rocky beach of
Monaco, has 602 rooms.
Floors designated for smoking guest rooms are the 3rd and 6th floor. Non-smoking
rooms
are distributed in the 1st, 4th and 5th floor. Hotel provides almost same
number of guest rooms
each floor. The rate of smoking rooms is 40.0%.
Port Palace Hotel Monaco is a smoke-free hotel. They provide 50 non-smoking
rooms.
  
(L) Station board of Monaco (M) Souvenir shops at the narrow street of
the Old Town, Monaco.
(R) Monaco is the city, in which we can enjoy the world's lowest crime
rates.
 
(L) A luxurious cruising boat (R) Visitors overlook the yacht harbor of
Monaco.
モナコの人口は3万人余り、2009年の1人当たり国民総所得は19万7590ドルで、世界銀行によれば、
統計のある国連加盟国中トップクラスである。主要な産業は観光。特にカジノは、19世紀の一時期は
国家収入の9割を占めていた。現在では5%以下であり、経営も半官半民の企業「ソシエテ・デ・バン
・ド・メール」へ移管されている。
モナコは個人居住者に対して所得税を課していない。所得税がないため、タックス・ヘイヴンとして
知られている。他国からの移住者の多くは億万長者であり、モナコ国外からほとんどの収入を得ている。
F1ドライバーなどの有名人もいるが、その多くは実業家である。 通貨はユーロ。 モナコ国内の鉄道は
フランス国鉄（SNCF）が運営する。マルセイユ〜ニース〜モンテカルロ〜マントン〜ヴェンティミーリア
（イタリア）間の鉄道がモナコを経由する。1867年のモンテカルロ駅が開業当初は地上に鉄道の線路が
敷かれていたが、モナコ国内の鉄道は、現在は、ほぼ全区間が地下路線となっている。
(参考：ウィキペディア）
France, Germany and Switzerland
 Paris 2011 Mont Saint-Michel Marseille Nice Monaco Lyon Strasbourg Freiburg Basel Berlin
Railway Travel in Europe 2011
Smoking restrictions in France, Germany and Switzerland
2011年6月執筆 2011年5月写真撮影
禁煙席ネット主宰 医学博士 宮本順伯
★記事、写真の無断転載禁止
著作権は宮本順伯に帰属
★「禁煙席ネット」へのリンクは自由
The photographs were taken in May, and the article was written in June
2011,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
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