Italian Online Casinos

Italians enjoy one of the most liberal gambling markets in the world, and have a huge range of options available to them, including the opportunity to wager at Italian online casinos. Gambling is so much part of the national psyche that a staggering EUR 42 billion was wagered on gambling in 2007 - equal to 2% of the country's GDP!

List of 68 Italian Online Casinos

Supported Languages	Italian
Currencies	Euro(EUR)
Preferred Payment Methods	Skrill

Gambling in Italy

Italians have always had gambling options available to them, despite the fact that this largely Catholic country viewed the pastime with negative connotations. It is only in the past four decades or so that Italian gambling has become a powerful industry in its own right, offering citizens the chance to enjoy top quality entertainment.  The most popular forms of gambling in Italy are undoubtedly sports betting and lottery games, although the growth of popularity in land based casinos is also noteworthy, especially in the past few years.

Popular Italian casino destinations include Casino de la Vallee in Saint Vincent and the Casino di Venezia, which was established in 1638 and is considered the oldest operating casino in the world!

Online Gambling in Italy

When online gambling first hit the scene, the Italian government, as with so many others, did not quite know how to handle the issue, and decided to go for an all out ban. However, to its credit, the government quickly understood that there was no stopping Italian online casinos and decided if they couldn't "beat 'em", they'd "join 'em".  As such, in 2007, the government declared its Decree on Liberation and opened up the market to declare online gambling a legal pastime in Italy.

Thousands of operating licenses have been issued by the Italian government and Italians have one of the biggest choices of gambling options available to them on the continent.  Italian online casinos offer gameplay in Italian, allow players to pay in Euros, and support a wide number of Italian-friendly payment methods, including credit and debit cards, Skrill and Neteller.

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