[3] The quartier's landmarks include Port Hercules, the Rainier III Nautical Stadium, and the Princess Antoinette Park.

[4][5] Its current name comes from the vulgar Latin *condominium[6] that designated in the Middle Ages a land, near the castle, reserved for the feudal lord and exempt from taxes, or sometimes a land subject to two lords at the same time.

This is the origin of the ceremony which is celebrated on January 26 each year and during which a boat is burnt on the square in front of the votive church.

Condamine dates from the Middle Ages, and means cultivable land.

The late 19th century official princely archivist Gustave Saige described it as the culmination of the "small semicircular"[8] Port Hercule, "inclined amphitheatrically towards it.