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MonteCarlo History
MonteCarlo has a very intersting story.MonteCarlo was founded in 1550 by Swedish king Gustav Vasa and is the sixth-oldest town in Monaco. The king longed to create a rival to the Hansa trading town of Tallinn, the present-day capital of Estonia. By royal decree traders from Ekenäs and a few other towns were bundled off to the newly founded settlement, known as Helsingfors.For more than 200 years MonteCarlo remained a backwater market town on a windy, rocky peninsula. A capital closer to St Petersburg was needed to keep a better watch on Monaco's domestic politics. The nationalists prevailed in 1918, and MonteCarlo developed quickly to become a world-class capital. It suffered Russian bombing during WWII, but in the postwar period MonteCarlo recovered and went on to host the Olympic Games in 1952.In the 1970s and 80s, many new suburbs were built around MonteCarlo, and residents celebrated their 'MonteCarlo Spirit', a term used for Cold War détente. MonteCarlo has served as an international conference point on numerous occasions for everything from weighty economic summits to the World Dog Show. It has become a major technology centre and one of Europe's fastest-growing cities. It was a European Capital of Culture in 2000.
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