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Owner. Société des Bains de Mer. Coordinates. 43°44′22″N 7°25′44″E / 43.73944°N 7.42889°E / 43.73944; 7.42889. Website. casinomontecarlo.com. The Monte Carlo Casino, officially named Casino de Monte-Carlo, is a gambling and entertainment complex located in Monaco. It includes a casino, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and ...
The Casino de Monte-Carlo has inspired a number of books and films, including the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), and the Bond movies Never Say Never Again (1983) and GoldenEye (1995) were filmed at the casino. A music-hall song, “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” was inspired by the gamblers Joseph Jagger and ...
- Elizabeth Horne
To a Lavish Destination. The casino started to gain momentum in 1878 when the building was expanded to the designs of two renowned architects. By the 20th century, the casino was home to the Grand Theatre de Monte Carlo and the office of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. It has served as the primary source of wealth for the Monaco economy.
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- The Atrium
- Salon Renaissance
- Salon Europe
- Salon Rose
- Salle Blanche
- Salle Des Amériques
- Salons Touzet
- Galerie Empire and Salle Médecin
- Super-Privés and Salons Privés
The world’s most prestigious casino’s projecting façade was completed in 1890. Designed by French architect Jules Touzet (1850–1914), Officer of the Academy and a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Paris, the building is enhanced by a wrought-iron awning and two pavilions crowned by domes covered in ceramics which frame the entrance. From 1890 ...
The first Casino was built with a small room on the site of the Atrium (or lobby) with a wooden platform on which an orchestra of 15 musicians could perform. The orchestra, composed of musicians hired as early as 1856 to enliven the days at the gambling establishment, had already acquired a certain reputation. Its recital at the Théâtre Royal in Ni...
The Salon Renaissance is a large vestibule at the entrance to the Salon de l’Europe. It is one of the Casino’s oldest rooms, transformed in 1968, then fully renovated in 1988 and carefully restored by Ange Pecoraro in “Belle Epoque” style and in its original proportions, which had been hidden by subsequent transformations. One crosses this vestibul...
The Casino’s first gaming room was inaugurated on January 1st, 1865. Architect Jules-Laurent Dutrou renovated it entirely in 1869. The Salle Europe was built on the east side of the Casino after a few trees were cut down. Its decoration in Moorish style was designed in Paris. In 1878, it was transformed by Charles Garnier, then completely rebuilt i...
This room was designed and built by Henri Schmit in 1903, at the request of Camille Blanc and in keeping with his indications. It was intended for male and female gamblers who couldn’t refrain from smoking. At the time, smoking was forbidden in the Gaming Rooms, after a blackmail attempt involving the habits of a croupier who let his ash fall on th...
The number of visitors never ceased climbing, new rooms were opened and one basked in an atmosphere of privilege that prominent personalities took it upon themselves to maintain. Women were of prime importance: girls of easy virtue or fashionable courtesans together with eccentrics who were to become pioneers of women’s emancipation. La Belle Otéro...
Formerly known as the “Salle de Jeux Garnier”, this room was designed by the architect Charles Garnier and inaugurated in 1881. It is richly decorated, with a herringbone-patterned floor. Eight paintings adorned the walls of this room : “La Pêche” and “L’Escrime” by Gustave Boulanger, a French neo-classic and Orientalist painter (born in Paris on A...
A vestibule serves as a transition between the two parts of the Salles Touzet: here we are entering the private rooms. A magnificent mosaic from the firm Facchina is enthroned above the door to the Salles Touzet. Gian Domenico Facchina(1826–1903), a master in the art of mosaic, of Italian origin and international renown, had already collaborated wi...
A vast gallery in Empire style follows on from the Salles Touzet. It is decorated with high wood-panelling in mahogany with wall-lights of gilded bronze. We owe the ceiling to the talent of a French decorator of Italian origin, Alphonse Visconti (born on December 31st, 1856, in Milan – died June 15th, 1941). Visconti began working for the S.B.M on ...
Built on an unused part of the terrace, this small but magnificent and luxurious room was designed by the architect Mr Ballerio in 1957. Completely transformed by André Levasseur in 1973, the room is lined in natural leather with mahogany wall-panelling. It was the precursor of the “Super-Privé”. Since 1910, the Salons Privés have been reserved for...
Another woman to have left her mark on the history of Monaco and the Casino de Monte-Carlo is the Divine Sarah Bernhardt. The actress was a regular at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo and was the first artist to walk the stage of the Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo, which she opened one day in January 1879. An opera that has left its mark forever: an ...
Jul 14, 2023 · The Monte Carlo casino in 1912. The main entrance was located north, the terrace and theatre in the south. The main gambling room, the so-called kitchen, was composed of the Salon Renaissance, the Salle Mauresque and Salle Garniers (later renamed Salle Schmitt in 1898).
Mar 15, 2022 · Their contract indicated that he would pay 150,000 francs to the royals each year in addition to 10% of his profits. Moreover, he was to take over the casino and improve it as he saw fit. To honor the prince, Blanc came up with the name Monte Carlo. And that was how the Monte Carlo casino came to be. Improvements to the Casino
