{"id":14545,"date":"2011-08-17T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2011-08-28T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T21:47:56","slug":"the-grand-casino-and-other-buildings-in-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14545","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Casino and Other Buildings in Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With visions of James Bond, the one place I wanted to visit in Monaco was the Grand Casino .\u00a0 I was surprised at how small the casino actually was, but impressed by its elegance .\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only photo I took was from the side, not the grand entrance .\u00a0 Other impressive structures were the National Council building where Monaco&#8217;s parliament meets, the Courthouse, and the\u00c2\u00a0Oceanographic Museum once directed by Jacques Cousteau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Grand-Casino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14546\" title=\"The Grand Casino in Monte Carlo\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Grand-Casino.jpg\" alt=\"The Grand Casino in Monte Carlo\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Grand-Casino.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Grand-Casino-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Grand-Casino-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Grand Casino in Monte Carlo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The Grand Casino in Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo, Monaco); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/National-Council.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14547\" title=\"The National Council Building\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/National-Council.jpg\" alt=\"The National Council Building\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/National-Council.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/National-Council-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/National-Council-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The National Council Building<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The National Council Building (Monaco-Ville, Monaco); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Courthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14548\" title=\"The Monaco Courthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Courthouse.jpg\" alt=\"The Monaco Courthouse\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Courthouse.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Courthouse-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Courthouse-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Monaco Courthouse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The National Council Building (Monaco-Ville, Monaco); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oceanographic-Museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14549\" title=\"The Oceanographic Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oceanographic-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"The Oceanographic Museum\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oceanographic-Museum.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oceanographic-Museum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Oceanographic-Museum-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Oceanographic Museum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Oceanographic Museum\u00c2\u00a0(Monaco-Ville, Monaco); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With visions of James Bond, the one place I wanted to visit in Monaco was the Grand Casino .\u00a0 I was surprised at how small the casino actually was, but impressed by its elegance .\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only photo I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[311,316],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-monaco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3MB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14551,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}