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Monaco's Prince Albert I inaugurated the Oceanographic Museum, an institution he founded to house his marine research, after eleven years of construction into a cliff face above the Mediterranean. The museum, later directed by Jacques Cousteau, remains one of the world's foremost centres for oceanography.

Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

The slowest, tightest and oldest race on the calendar runs through the streets of Monte Carlo, where qualifying decides most of it.