CULTURE
In Monaco are the Roman Catholic
cathedral, the prince's Genoese and Renaissance palace, and the
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, built in 1910. The casino itself
contains a theatre designed by the 19th-century French architect
Charles Garnier, which is the home of the Opera de Monte Carlo.
During the 1920s many of the works of the famous Ballets Russes
of Sergey Diaghilev were given their premiers there. There is
also a Monte-Carlo national orchestra. The best known of the automobile
events held in the principality are the Monte-Carlo Rally and
the Grand Prix de Monaco. Pop. (1995 est.) 30,400.
