Casino de Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
100 slots35 tables5 poker
The Casino de Monte-Carlo opened in 1863 and is the building that established the European idea of a casino: a Beaux-Arts palace by Charles Garnier…
Venue format
Urban casino
33 venues recorded.
A standalone gaming house inside a city, typically without a large attached hotel. European capitals favour this format: the building is often historic, the floor is comparatively small, and the clientele is local or made up of short-stay visitors rather than resort guests.
Venues
Grand Lisboa
Macau Peninsula, Macau
800 slots240 tables430 rooms
The Grand Lisboa opened in 2007 beside the older Hotel Lisboa, and its lotus-shaped tower with a gold lattice shell is the most recognisable building…
The Hippodrome Casino
London, United Kingdom
150 slots40 tables10 poker
The Hippodrome occupies a 1900 variety theatre on the corner of Leicester Square, converted to a casino in 2012 after the building had served as a…
Casinò di Venezia — Ca’ Vendramin Calergi
Venice, Italy
100 slots20 tables4 poker
The Venice casino operates in the Ca' Vendramin Calergi, a Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal where Richard Wagner died in 1883. The city traces…
Sands Macao
Macau Peninsula, Macau
700 slots240 tables290 rooms
Sands Macao opened in 2004 as the first casino licensed to a foreign operator after the end of the monopoly, and its commercial success set off the…
Casino Barrière d’Enghien-les-Bains
Enghien-les-Bains, France
450 slots45 tables10 poker
Enghien-les-Bains holds the casino closest to Paris, French law having historically barred gaming from the capital itself. The town is a thermal spa…
Casino de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3,000 slots110 tables10 poker
The Casino de Montréal occupies the former French and Quebec pavilions of Expo 67 on Île Notre-Dame, converted for gaming in 1993. The French…
SkyCity Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
1,500 slots150 tables12 poker600 rooms
SkyCity Auckland sits at the base of the Sky Tower, the 328-metre observation and telecommunications tower built as part of the same 1990s…
Casino Estoril
Estoril, Portugal
1,000 slots30 tables8 poker
Casino Estoril is the largest casino in Portugal, set in gardens facing the Atlantic west of Lisbon. The present building dates from 1931 and has…
Holland Casino Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
600 slots45 tables10 poker
The Amsterdam venue is the flagship of Holland Casino, the state-owned chain that holds the only land-based casino licence in the Netherlands. It…
MGM Grand Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, United States
3,300 slots110 tables10 poker400 rooms
MGM Grand Detroit is the largest of the three commercial casinos licensed inside the city. It operated from a temporary building from 1999 and moved…
Casino Barrière de Deauville
Deauville, France
350 slots35 tables8 poker
The Deauville casino occupies a 1912 building at the centre of the Normandy resort, designed in a neoclassical idiom with a theatre, salons and a…
The Empire Casino
London, United Kingdom
120 slots35 tables8 poker
The Empire occupies the upper floors of a former cinema and variety house on the north side of Leicester Square, converted into a casino in 2007. The…
Caesars New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
1,500 slots110 tables12 poker340 rooms
Louisiana's only land-based casino stands at the foot of Canal Street, between the French Quarter and the Mississippi, and opened in 1999 after a…
Casino Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
400 slots40 tables15 poker
Casino Barcelona sits in the Port Olímpic development built for the 1992 Games, beneath a waterfront hotel tower, and moved there from an…
Casino Café de Paris
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
300 slots20 tables
The Casino Café de Paris occupies part of the Belle Époque brasserie building across the square from the main casino, and functions as the less…
Spielbank Berlin
Berlin, Germany
300 slots30 tables8 poker
Spielbank Berlin is at Potsdamer Platz, in the commercial quarter rebuilt after reunification, and is the most contemporary of the German state…
Casino Barrière Le Croisette
Cannes, France
250 slots25 tables6 poker
The Croisette casino stands beside the Palais des Festivals on the Cannes seafront, which places it at the centre of the city's festival and congress…
MotorCity Casino Hotel
Detroit, Michigan, United States
2,700 slots60 tables12 poker400 rooms
MotorCity occupies the converted Wagner Baking Company building on Grand River Avenue, a 1920s industrial structure that was extended in 2007 with a…
Casino Gran Madrid Torrelodones
Madrid, Spain
400 slots45 tables12 poker
The main Madrid casino stands at Torrelodones in the hills north-west of the capital, a location chosen because regional rules long required casinos…
Casino Wien
Vienna, Austria
300 slots25 tables5 poker
Casino Wien operates in the Palais Esterházy on Kärntner Straße, a baroque townhouse in the pedestrian centre of Vienna a few minutes from the…
Casinò di Sanremo
Sanremo, Italy
450 slots25 tables6 poker
Sanremo's casino occupies an Art Nouveau building completed in 1905 on a terrace above the Ligurian seafront, with a theatre inside that is used for…
Dragonara Casino
St Julian's, Malta
250 slots25 tables5 poker
The Dragonara occupies a nineteenth-century palace built as a summer residence on a promontory at St Julian's, converted to a casino in 1964 — the…
Paradise Casino Walkerhill
Seoul & Incheon, South Korea
150 slots80 tables
The Walkerhill casino operates inside a hotel complex on Mount Acha in eastern Seoul, overlooking the Han River, and is the longest-established…