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Article: MONACO'S RICHES DO NOT INCLUDE SOUL TINY TAX HAVEN LEAVES VISITORS FEELING EMPTY.(NEWS)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 6, 1999
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Fortunes are won and lost through the night in the smoke-filled, exclusive back rooms of Monaco's casino, built by the architect of the Paris Opera House.
Jewelry stores and Belle Epoque hotels with Italian-style frescoes and pink marble columns overlook the Mediterranean, where huge private yachts are moored year-round.
But for all its wealth, this tiny, sun-kissed tax haven - smaller than New York's Central Park and for decades a magnet for the international jet set - seems to lack soul.
``It's like a film set,'' Marco Peruzzi, a day-tripper from nearby Italy, said as he gazed at the sand-colored royal palace where the Grimaldi dynasty has ...