Consulate General Of Mona

Since the very early days, since the Quaternary Era and maybe even before, the Rock of Monaco has offered a refuge for primitive peoples, traces of whom have been found in a cave in Saint Martin's Gardens. The 1st inhabitants of our area, the Ligurians, possibly arrived when the immigrant warriors who spoke an Indo-European language 1st penetrated into Provence and Liguria. Ancient authors, the historian Diodorus Siculus and the geographer Strabon, described the Ligurians as a race of mountaineers used to the hardest work and practicing an exemplary frugality.