Updated on November 04, 2025
At the future Monte-Carlo One Courchevel, Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer will bring its expertise in hotels and restaurants to an altitude of 1,850 metres from December 2027. Among the palaces already established in the Jardin alpin – the “golden square” of France’s most exclusive ski resort – the Monegasque establishment aims to make the “Monte-Carlo spirit” shine (see also). Construction and decoration trades are already converging in the Vanoise valley, 500 kilometres from the Rock. The building permit was issued last September, and work has entered the structural phase, involving the restructuring of 7,500 m² and the addition of more than 5,000 m². In total, over 12,500 m² will be built, facing the fir forest of the Jardin Alpin.
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1. An exceptional project in the heart of the Alps
An exceptional project in the heart of the Alps
A new setting for some of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer's iconic addresses, including Le Grill*, a refined and emblematic restaurant at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo.
To capture the tastes and flavours of the French and Italian Rivieras, the menu at the Monte-Carlo Club 1863* will embrace traditional dishes, with the famous barbagiuans at the top of the menu! This restaurant facing the slopes, in partnership with D.ream International, will be the first of its kind outside Monaco and is set to inaugurate a new era: the international expansion of the two Rivieras’ cuisine, signed Monte-Carlo.
* 1863 marks the year when Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer was founded by François Blanc during the reign of Prince Charles III.
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The Monte-Carlo spirit: a rich history
In Courchevel, the beating heart of Monte-Carlo will pulse at the summit of the Alps, continuing the legacy of François and Marie Blanc, the brilliant entrepreneurs who established the Société des Bains de Mer. While the Monte-Carlo One Courchevel will be opened 150 years after the death of the company's founder, it was only a few kilometres away that his wife recognised the potential of this Vanoise massif, making several land acquisitions with the aim of building a hotel and spa complex inspired by the Monegasque model. But having died too soon, she was unable to realise her project.
The identity of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer is evidently much stronger than that of the Spélugues plateau where it originated. Since 1863, the men and women who have shaped its character, elegance, spirit, and prestige have almost all been outsiders.
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Passing on the Monte Carlo lifestyle
Anyone familiar with Monaco knows how much Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer has hosted the world's eminent personalities and talents. From this, the "Monte-Carlo spirit" was born, a blend of cultures, arts, and liberated ideas.
What is unthinkable elsewhere is possible here. But more than just a place, it embodies a spirit that is handed down; one that is accomplished and lively at the same time. The art of living and living through art, knowing how to live and living with knowledge, are one and the same. This is what François Blanc aimed for from the very beginning of the Société des Bains de Mer when he declared: "Here we must give dreams, pleasures, and beauty." Hence, he established a company unlike any other- a dream factory that, from its earliest days, dedicated itself to supporting art in all its forms, without condition or pretence, as long as it continued to surprise us.
Today, driven by the vision of those who built the temple "of dreams, pleasures, and beauty", the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer Group is extending the ambition of the Blanc couple from Monte-Carlo to the Tarentaise valley. With audacity as a legacy, like a utopia that has become reality, because that is the very identity of "Monte-Carlo."
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