Casino Lisboa

This guide to Casino Lisboa in Lisbon opens in 1941 at the Casino Estoril, where British naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming watched a Yugoslav double agent named Dusko Popov sit down at the baccarat table against a wealthy, friendless man named Bloch. You'll hear how that night shaped a scene Fleming would write twelve years later, and how the building around you — built for the 1998 World Expo as the Pavilion of the Future — ended up owned by the same casino group. Listen for the echo of that wartime card game as you walk the floor.