The CASINO DE BARCELONA is located on the ground floor of the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, at Port Olympic, Barcelona. It is managed by the Gran Casino de Barcelona, SLU, which in turn belongs to the Grup Peralada.
The businessmen Artur Suqué and Carmen Mateu, through the INVERAMA company, opened the Gran Casino de Barcelona in 1978, taking advantage of the legalization of gambling in Spain.

Despite this authorization, the regulations of the time still prohibited the establishment of casinos in metropolitan areas, so, even bearing the name of Barcelona, the casino was initially located 40 kilometers from the city, in San Pere de Ribes, in a tower known as Mas Solers and that previously had belonged to the Marquis of Argentera. The Mas Soler estate in San Pedro de Ribas, was the first headquarters of the Gran Casino de Barcelona.
With the aim of attracting a larger audience, in 1998 Inverama obtained authorization from the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council to move to Barcelona. To this end, it acquired a premises in the Olympic Port of Barcelona, on the ground floor of the Hotel Arts. The transfer was not without controversy, and was successfully unsuccessful by associations former gamblers, by businessmen in the gaming machine sector and some politics , who even filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia.
The new facilities were inaugurated on July 1, 1999. The first stage of the European Poker Tour took place in 2004 at Casino Barcelona and since then it has been stopped in all editions of the circuit.
The group also owned and opened on 18 August 1978 the CASINO LLORET DEL MAR and CASINO CASTILLO DE PERALADA ( Castell in Catalan) on 16 August 1979.
On 2005 would opened CASINO DE TARRAGONA.
The CASINO LLORET DEL MAR, also called CASINO KING, was closed on 2010.
This casino was replaced by Gran Casino Costa Brava, opened on 2010, in another premises, being owned by Conei Corporation, which sold the casino on 2019 to CIRSA.


The Grup Peralada in a family group ( Family Mateu Suqué) of businesses active in several sectors: leisure, culture, viticulture and industry.
It brings together a group of more than 30 companies, the crown jewel being the Casino de Barcelonaa, among the casinos, the golf clubs, the hotel, etc
Two of Peralada's parent companies are: Invergaming and Inverama.
Invergaming groups the casinos of Barcelona, Tarragona and Perelada, as well as that of Chile and online.
Inverama has the rest of the group, with the exception of wines and cavas. It groups the Argentine and Uruguay casinos.
Grup Peralada History

1904
The legend is born. The Barcelona lawyer and entrepeneur, Dami� Mateu i Bisa, founded the Hispano Suiza Automobile Manufacturer SA in Barcelona, which very son became one of the country´s leading industries.
The legend goes on. After a time, Hispano-Suizas were the fastest, most elegante and prestigious top-of-the range automobiles of the age. ( from Grup Peralada site)

1923
Miquel Mateu i Pla acquired the monumental site of the Castillo de Peralada, built on the 14 th century, and revitalised the wine industry by founding the Castillo de Perelada Wines and Cavas winnery in the cellar where monks werwe producing wine in the Midle Ages.
1978-1979

Artur Suqué and Carmen Mateu inaugurated the GRAN CASINO de BARCELONA, CASINO CASTELL PERALADA and CASINO LLORET DE MAR
2000
Artur Suqué and Miguel Suqué , heading the Perelada Group, opted to built two large leisure centres: Casino Resort Santa Fé and Melincué Casino &Resort
2012
The business activities of the Suqué-Mateu family continue to grow. The Grup Peralada group, opened its first online casino: Casino Barcelona.es

photo and information from Grup Peralada site
CASINOS CATALUNYA chips, jetons, plaques and slot tokens
In the beginning ( Casinos Barcelona, Lloret and Perlelada ) the three casinos used similar chips in Pesetas with the designation of CASINOS DE CATALUNYA.
Similar slot tokens were used in the three casinos.
Each casino had diferente jetons and plaques in Pesetas
Casinos Lloret , Barcelona Peralada had also two peseta chips with its designation and Pesetas currency ( smaller values)
In the era of Euro all the casinos Casino used diferente jetons and chips. Casino Tarragona opened in 2005, after the Euro currency era ,has only chips and jetons with that designation.
There are tournaments chips used in three casinos:
- Barcelona, Perelada, Tarragona- used after the openning of Tarragona and closure of Lloret.

CASINO BARCELONA
1st place in San Pere de Ribes

2nd place in Port Olympic Barcelona

CASINO CASTILLO DE PERELADA
Open: 08.16.1979
The different designations CASTELL DE PERALADA or CASTILLO DE PERELADA ( catalan and spanish)

CASINO LLORET DEL MAR









08.18.1978, Close: 2010
The Casino de Lloret del Mar was closed on 2010 and was replaced by Gran Casino da Costa Brava elsewhere in lLoret del Mar.
The GO of this casino was on 1st July 2010. This casino replaced The GRAN CASINO COSTA BRAVA in the opening was owned by Conei Corporation, which sold the casino to CIRSA on 2019.
the Casino de Lloret del Mar, has changed the site, the designation and the chips

CASINO TARRAGONA

Photos from casinos websites.
Jetons, chips, plaques from CHIPGUIDE