24 Venues Catalogued
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Holland Casino Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The flagship house of Holland Casino, the state-affiliated operator that runs the Netherlands' legal land-based casinos — a large, modern gaming floor rather than a period piece.
- Founded
- 1991
- Style
- Contemporary riverside building
- Dress
- Smart casual required
- Min. Age
- 18
Grand Casino Baden
Baden, Switzerland
A modern Swiss gaming house in a historic thermal town on the Limmat, built after Switzerland's mid-1990s reform legalised casinos beyond its handful of older establishments.
- Founded
- 1994
- Style
- Contemporary spa-town casino
- Dress
- Smart casual required
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Baden
Baden bei Wien, Austria
The founding house of Casinos Austria, set inside a Habsburg-era spa town's Kurpark just south of Vienna, and long favoured by the imperial court as a summer retreat.
- Founded
- 1934
- Style
- Neoclassical spa pavilion
- Dress
- Smart casual is generally acceptable
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, Germany
Marlene Dietrich reportedly called it the most beautiful casino in the world; its French-style rooms inside the Kurhaus were modelled in part on the great châteaux of the Ancien Régime.
- Founded
- 1824
- Style
- French Rococo / Kurhaus
- Dress
- Jacket required for men in the evening
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
A modern harbourfront casino inside Barcelona's World Trade Center, opened for the 1992 Olympic-era transformation of the city's old port.
- Founded
- 1988
- Style
- Contemporary harbourfront tower
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
Casinò di Campione
Campione d'Italia, Italy
A vast Mario Botta-designed tower rising from a tiny Italian exclave inside Switzerland — for decades marketed as one of Europe's largest casinos by floor area.
- Founded
- 1917
- Style
- Modernist tower (2007 rebuild)
- Dress
- Smart casual is generally accepted
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Barrière Les Princes
Cannes, France
Cannes' historic gaming license, now run from a contemporary building on La Croisette, at the centre of a seafront the town has cultivated as a gaming destination since the 1860s.
- Founded
- 1863
- Style
- Modern Riviera (Croisette)
- Dress
- Smart casual to smart depending on room
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark's first licensed casino, set inside Arne Jacobsen's landmark 1960 Royal Hotel — a modernist design landmark in its own right, quite apart from the gaming floor.
- Founded
- 1990
- Style
- Arne Jacobsen modernism
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Barrière de Deauville
Deauville, France
The grand seaside casino that helped define Deauville as the fashionable Normandy resort of the Belle Époque, immortalised in Marcel Proust's fictional Balbec.
- Founded
- 1912
- Style
- Belle Époque / Anglo-Norman
- Dress
- Smart dress expected
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Estoril
Estoril, Portugal
Long billed as one of Europe's largest casinos, and the wartime Lisbon-coast gaming room where exiled royalty and Allied and Axis spies mixed — a direct inspiration for Ian Fleming's Casino Royale.
- Founded
- 1916
- Style
- Modernist (1960s rebuild)
- Dress
- Smart casual is generally acceptable
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
A glass-and-steel riverside pavilion built for Lisbon's Expo '98 site — the modern, waterfront counterpoint to Estoril's older seaside house.
- Founded
- 2006
- Style
- Contemporary riverside pavilion
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
Hippodrome Casino
London, United Kingdom
A three-tiered Victorian variety theatre from 1900, gutted and rebuilt behind its Grade II listed façade into one of the largest casinos in Europe by gaming floor.
- Founded
- 2012
- Style
- Victorian theatre conversion
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
The Ritz Club
London, United Kingdom
A small, formal gaming club beneath the Ritz Hotel's Louis XVI-style Palm Court, built for a discreet, high-end table-games crowd rather than a wide evening audience.
- Founded
- 1978
- Style
- Louis XVI revival
- Dress
- Smart, formal dress expected
- Min. Age
- 18
Grand Casino Luzern
Lucerne, Switzerland
Housed in Lucerne's historic Kursaal on the shore of Lake Lucerne, framed by Alpine views that few other casinos in this atlas can match.
- Founded
- 1959
- Style
- Art Nouveau Kursaal
- Dress
- Smart casual is standard
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Gran Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Madrid's largest casino, a purpose-built gaming and entertainment complex on the city's northwestern edge, opened not long after Spain re-legalised casino gambling.
- Founded
- 1982
- Style
- Contemporary resort building
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino de Monte-Carlo
Monte Carlo, Monaco
The atrium and gaming rooms Charles Garnier built for Princess Caroline's vision of a resort of last resort — still the reference point for what a European casino house is supposed to look like.
- Founded
- 1863
- Style
- Belle Époque
- Dress
- Smart, elegant dress throughout
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino Portorož
Portorož, Slovenia
The anchor casino of the HIT group on Slovenia's short Adriatic coastline, in a resort town whose gaming history reaches back to the years before the First World War.
- Founded
- 1913
- Style
- Adriatic resort building
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
King's Casino Rozvadov
Rozvadov, Czech Republic
Europe's largest live poker room by table count, built directly on the German border to draw players from both sides — the specialist plate in this atlas for poker rather than table games generally.
- Founded
- 2008
- Style
- Contemporary border resort
- Dress
- Casual dress is generally accepted on the main gaming and poker floors
- Min. Age
- 18
Casinò di Sanremo
Sanremo, Italy
The Italian Riviera's Liberty-style gaming house, built for the Belle Époque winter tourist trade and still the anchor of Sanremo's old resort quarter.
- Founded
- 1905
- Style
- Art Nouveau / Liberty style
- Dress
- Smart casual for the ground-floor American games room
- Min. Age
- 18
Casino de Spa
Spa, Belgium
Chartered in 1763, this is one of the oldest gaming houses in the world and a direct source of the very word "casino" as it is used across Europe today.
- Founded
- 1763
- Style
- Neoclassical spa pavilion
- Dress
- Smart casual throughout
- Min. Age
- 21
Dragonara Casino
St Julian's, Malta
A nineteenth-century seafront palazzo built for the Marquis Scicluna, now Malta's most historic casino address on a rocky point above the Mediterranean.
- Founded
- 1964
- Style
- 19th-century palazzo
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 18
Olympic Casino Tallinn (Reval Park)
Tallinn, Estonia
The flagship Tallinn room of Olympic Entertainment Group, one of the Baltic region's largest casino operators, in a modern hotel just outside Tallinn's medieval Old Town.
- Founded
- 1998
- Style
- Contemporary hotel-casino
- Dress
- Smart casual
- Min. Age
- 21
Casinò di Venezia
Venice, Italy
Chartered in 1638 as the Ridotto, this is the oldest continuously licensed casino in the world — a title it now holds across two very different addresses on the lagoon.
- Founded
- 1638
- Style
- Renaissance palazzo
- Dress
- Smart casual is acceptable in the main rooms
- Min. Age
- 18
Spielbank Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden, Germany
Fyodor Dostoevsky lost heavily at these tables in 1865, an episode he folded almost directly into The Gambler; the neoclassical Kurhaus rooms still carry that literary shadow.
- Founded
- 1771
- Style
- Neoclassical Kurhaus
- Dress
- Smart dress expected
- Min. Age
- 18