Qualla: Casino Central https://qualla.com/casino-central en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casino-central-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Casino Central https://qualla.com/casino-central Casino Central: Introduction https://qualla.com/casino-central/ Photo credit Julio Gonzalez, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two sea lions sit carved in stone at the top of the steps, watching the Atlantic, and on a January weekend as many as eighteen thousand people will pass between them in a single day. They are the work of the sculptor Jose Fioravanti, and they mark the seam where Mar del Plata stops being a city and becomes a beach. Behind them rises the Casino Central, one half of a colossal pair of twin buildings by the architect Alejandro Bustillo - brick and quartzite under a steep slate mansard, a slab of borrowed France set down on the Argentine shore. This is the building people picture when they picture Mar del Plata.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casino-central-wp/69pp-casino-central-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Casino Central: A Frenchman's Dream in Concrete https://qualla.com/casino-central/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bustillo did not invent the look out of thin air. He took his cue from the Hotel du Palais at Biarritz, the great seafront resort on France's Atlantic coast, and rendered it at monumental scale: an eclectic composition with the bones of French Neoclassical architecture, clad in b...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casino-central-wp/69pp-casino-central-a-frenchmans-dream-in-concrete.mp3 0:06 2 full Casino Central: The Rambla and the Sea Lions https://qualla.com/casino-central/ Photo credit Marianogemin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Bustillo designed more than the buildings. He shaped the ground between them and the water - the Bristol Esplanade, or Rambla Casino, and the central plaza, laid out between 1938 and 1941. Guillermo Brown Square divides the twin buildings and opens to the sea down wide stone step...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/p/p/casino-central-wp/69pp-casino-central-the-rambla-and-the-sea-lions.mp3 0:06 3 full Casino Central: Where the House Always Wins, in Crowds https://qualla.com/casino-central/ Photo credit Tonykamo, CC BY-SA 3.0. This is no boutique gaming room. Inside, the main hall overlooks the Atlantic, and beyond it spread salons for high rollers - some 140 tables of blackjack, baccarat, craps and roulette - and a sea of 630 slot machines. Through the summer season the casino draws around 12,000 play...

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