The Casino - built in 1909 was inaugurated in August 1910; the designs were made by the French architect Daniel Renard (first design was made in 1903; in 1905, the architect Petre Antonescu made the second design - but the first one was chosen). The building has been the most representative in town for decades, a real symbol for Constanta; it was also the only representative of "art nouveau" style in Romania. On the top of the building, the decorations consists of old ships representations (ram heads and alga garlands); inside there are staircases and imposing banisters, covered columns and marble girdles on the walls. In 1985-1987 the building was restored, the furniture was entirely changed.

Comments

1. Was there in the eighties, it was a shit place already.
2. why doesn't the rich or the government grab this place and restore it? its a part of our fucking history
3. sad to see buildings like that get wasted
4. cool!
5. great vid, would love to see this place in person
6. How beautiful! I wish someone would save this building. 
7. becuase goverment has no money . poor country
8. they had a guard
9. it was free to get in. It was awesome !
10. Cool place mate. was it easy to get into or did you have to pay off a guard? I'm interested in going there.
11. in the west it would have graffiti painted all over it
12. the romania government is too greedy and steal state money to take their cars villas bags Mayor's constant pontoon boat for home. but it's too blind to see that the casino collapse.
13. So why isn't the building inhabited if it was restored?