Badge or Bust: Navigating Port Hercule’s Strict Rules During Monaco Yacht Show
Bookmark this if you’re boating into Monaco for the yacht show. The Principality has published special navigation rules for Monaco Yacht Show 2025, turning Port Hercule into a tightly managed fairway from 00:00 on Wednesday, 24 September until 18:30 on Saturday, 27 September.
There will be a full nightly shutdown: which means no vessel movements at all between 00:00 and 07:00 on show days. Think of Port Hercule as a red-light zone overnight.
48th Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival and Europa-Park Collaboration
The Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival has unveiled its new poster for the 48th edition. The poster was designed by Petit Gougou, the Festival’s ringmaster, who is also an artist.
Happening from January 16-25, 2026, the big top event will be paired with the 13th New Generation competition.
Over 150 artists from around the world are expected to perform for a chance to win awards that will boost their careers, under the big top at Espace Fontvieille. Tickets for over 15 shows, and the Gala evening, are already on sale on the festival’s website.
“We heal hearts”: Les Enfants de Frankie scales up support to 3,500 young people in six months
In Monaco, kindness tends to move at the speed of a Formula 1 pit stop change. Case in point: Les Enfants de Frankie, the Monegasque association that spent the first half of the year quietly multiplying moments of relief and joy for children who need it most, more than 3,500 of them between January and June alone. That surge in impact is a string of very tangible actions that have brightened wards, schoolyards, and therapy rooms across Monaco and the surrounding region.
Do You Know the Secrets of the Stade Louis-II? This Historic Exhibition Will Grab You
Step inside the extraordinary world of AS Monaco and be transported back in time with the club’s newly unveiled exhibition of historic jerseys and pennants, now dazzling in the heart of Stade Louis‑II. If you thought match nights were just about the action on the pitch, think again, this season, the journey begins before the kickoff.
This exhibition, meticulously curated by superfan and collector Julien Bouron of AS Monaco collection is a living timeline of AS Monaco’s European adventures. The centerpiece: 30 rare and unique jerseys, each echoing moments of drama and triumph from the club’s 34 European campaigns.
Monaco’s “judicial reserve,” explained: who can serve, what they’ll do, and why it matters now
Monaco is preparing to give its courts a surge capacity. A government bill, No. 1.109, would create a judicial reserve of seasoned former judges who can be called in, part-time and on short stints, to accelerate sensitive cases and ease bottlenecks. The move dovetails with the Principality’s push to satisfy FATF/MONEYVAL benchmarks after Monaco was placed under increased monitoring (“grey list”) in June 2024 and later added to the EU’s list of high-risk jurisdictions this June.
There is a new corps of “magistrats réservistes.” Ex-judges of Monegasque or French nationality with 15+ years’ experience can apply to join a reserve list managed by the Director of Judicial Services. They would serve temporarily within trial courts, the Court of Appeal, the Criminal Court, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the justice of the peace (but not the Supreme Court or Court of Revision).
