Gala celebrates Chinese New Year with the Embassy of Monaco in China A gala celebrating Chinese New Year took place in the Mediterranean Room of the Hôtel Méridien Beach Plaza on Wednesday 11 February in the evening.
For years, the geography of extreme wealth looked reassuringly stable. A handful of gilded cities, secure, discreet, and fiscally attractive, formed an almost closed club for the ultra-wealthy. Then came the Barnes City Index 2026, and with it, a reshuffling that feels like a cultural shift.


