2025 has been a truly defining year for Gaia Bertelli, both personally and professionally. Stepping into the role of Editor of Living in Monaco opened the door to a remarkable journey, one shaped by conversations, encounters, and stories with extraordinary residents who shape the life and spirit of the Principality.
From the outside, Monaco is frequently perceived through the lens of glamour, luxury, and exclusivity. Yet once you truly embed yourself in the local community, a far richer reality emerges. Monaco is, above all, a place of people, individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, professions, and life experiences who have chosen the Principality not only for what it offers, but for what it represents: stability, opportunity, safety, and a unique quality of life.
Throughout the year, Gaia had the privilege of meeting entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, diplomats, creatives, and long-standing residents, each with a personal story shaped by ambition, resilience, and vision. Many arrived in Monaco decades ago; others more recently. Some built businesses from the ground up, others reinvented themselves entirely. What unites them is not status, but substance.
This made selecting the Top 25 Interviews of 2025 particularly challenging. Every conversation felt meaningful. Each interview revealed a different facet of life in Monaco, its professional ecosystem, its cultural richness, its international openness, and its deeply rooted sense of community. Choosing between them felt, at times, like asking a parent to choose among their children.
To bring objectivity to this selection, she turned to data and, most importantly, to our readers. Engagement, feedback, sharing, and direct responses helped highlight which stories resonated most strongly. These interviews sparked curiosity, reflection, and conversation; often extending well beyond the pages of the magazine.
The "Top 25 Interviews of 2025" selection represents the interviews that generated the greatest interest in 2025, capturing the voices and narratives that our readers connected with most deeply. Together, they paint a portrait of Monaco that is authentic, human, and forward-looking, revealing the Principality not merely as a destination, but as a living community shaped by remarkable people.
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