Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Resort and casino in Paradise, Nevada, USA
Bellagio Hotel & Casino is a multi-story resort in Paradise along the Las Vegas Strip. The building rises 36 stories with nearly four thousand rooms and stands before an artificial lake covering more than eight acres.
Steve Wynn opened the resort on October 15, 1998, on the site of the former Dunes Hotel. The project cost roughly 1.6 billion dollars and aimed to create a Mediterranean luxury resort in the desert.
The botanical display changes with the seasons and shows new arrangements of thousands of flowers and trees each time. Visitors often see wedding couples taking photographs among the plants, while the art gallery regularly hangs works ranging from Monet to Warhol.
The casino floor measures 156,000 sq ft (14,500 sq m), with table games, slot machines and a separate poker room. The poker room's Big Game, renamed The Legends Room in November 2020, requires a minimum buy-in of $20,000 to sit down. The fountains run several times an hour between 3 p.m. and midnight.
The fountain installation in the lake holds over 1,200 nozzles and about 4,000 lights, and some jets reach just over 42 metres. It was built by the American firm WET, and the lake is fed by a groundwater source tapped long before the resort existed, once used to irrigate the Dunes golf course.
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