December 1999 / Jan 2000

Monaco is celebrating the end of the 20th century in spectacular fashion with the opening of its first underground railway, a colossal 1.5 billion franc project which necessitated blasting out 460,000 cubic metres of rock to make a 3-kilometre, 22 metre wide tunnel under the principality and the Moyenne Corniche. The ultra-modern 3-storey underground station will open on 27 November …