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About 47 miles away
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Exotic Garden
Thousands of cacti and succulents on a cliff high above the sea, reopened in 2026 after six years of work.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- 62 Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, 98000 MonacoDirections
- Getting There
- Bus 2 from the center, about 15 minutes.
Why Go
The garden opened in 1933 on terraces cut into the rock, and its paths wind between giant cacti with views over the whole principality. A cave beneath it, the Observatory Grotto, has stalactites and traces of prehistoric people.
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