11/24/2023 0 Comments World's oldest casinoKnown as the the Ridotto di San Moisè, ‘Il Ridotto’ translates as ‘private room’. Instead, it was a wing of the Palazzo Dandolo, which was located close to the church of San Moisé. It’s a slightly complicated story, because it wasn’t a building in its own right. The first casino in Italy and, indeed, the entire world was opened in 1638. The Original Casino Il Ridotto by Francesco Guardi / They didn’t just arrive as fully-formed businesses, instead taking their lead off the Casino di Venezia, which opened in the 1600s before moving location to the one it’s based at today. The one thing that many people don’t think about when it comes to casinos is when they started and where the first one was located. There are plenty of different casino chains operating, with Las Vegas in America being a city that welcomes millions of visitors every year precisely because of the number and size of the casinos that have been built there over the years. Nowadays casinos can be found in pretty much every major city and town in England, such is their popularity. The first casino as painted by Pietro Longhi /
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