Jardin Exotique De Monaco
The Jardin Exotique de Monaco, or the exotic garden of Monaco, is a botanical garden located on a cliffside in Monaco and features succulent plants from Mexico in the late 1860s. The garden’s history can be traced to Albert I, Prince of Monaco when he acquired a piece of land in Les Moneghetti in 1912; he employed Louis Notari, the Chief Engineer of Monaco, to build a new garden with footbridges.
The garden was completed in 1933, and Monegasque agronomist Louis Vatrican, who served as the first director from 1933 to 1969, added African succulents to the existing South American plants. It was opened to the public in 1950 but can only be viewed with a special guide. There is also a museum of Prehistoric Anthropology within the Exotic Garden, and it’s known to show many of those prehistoric remains.