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The Hotel de Paris has overlooked the Casino Square in Monte-Carlo since 1864, and the two institutions have been feeding off each other's glamour ever since. A €280 million renovation completed in 2019 added a rooftop villa with a private pool, but the essential character — the marble lobby, the wine cellar with 350,000 bottles, the bronze equestrian statue whose knee has been rubbed smooth by superstitious guests hoping for luck at the casino — remains intact. 209 rooms, the three-Michelin-starred Louis XV restaurant by Alain Ducasse, and the most concentrated square kilometre of wealth in Europe.
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