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Best online casinos in Vatican City
Online gambling is restricted in Vatican City. These casinos accept players from Vatican City according to their terms; read the legal overview before you play.
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185 casinos in our database accept players from Vatican City. The minimum age to gamble is 18; check the legal situation before you play.
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Betamo
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Scatters
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Caxino
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Genting Casino
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Dux Casino
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SpinGenie
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Guts
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Wildz
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Casinos accepting Vatican City: key figures
Looking at the licences of the 185 casinos that accept Vatican City: Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission (54), Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority (gaming licences) (47), Malta Gaming Authority (43). The payment methods they name most often are Visa (123), Mastercard (117), Skrill (107), Bank Transfer (SEPA / SWIFT) (95), Bitcoin (BTC) (95). 169 of them offer a live casino and 116 accept cryptocurrency. The average rating of these casinos is 6.9 out of 10.
Legal situation in Vatican City
Vatican City State has no gambling legislation and no gambling regulator. It does not issue licences for casinos, sports betting, lotteries, poker or any form of online gaming, and no lawful gambling operator is based in or authorised by the state. Its legal system rests on canon law and on Vatican statutes, with gaps filled by received Italian law: the 1929 Law on the Sources of Law applied the Italian penal code then in force, and that law was replaced by Law No. LXXI of 1 October 2008, which took effect on 10 January 2009. No Vatican provision authorising games of chance was found in the published legislation.
In practice the question rarely arises. The state covers less than half a square kilometre, has a few hundred residents, most of them clergy, Swiss Guards and officials, and is surrounded by Rome. There is no land-based casino or betting shop, no state lottery and no tax regime for gambling. Because there is no authorising law, there is also no legal route for any operator to offer online casino games to people in the Vatican.
Online casino play is not licensed in Vatican City and no operator is authorised to offer it there.
No operator holds a Vatican gambling licence, so treat any such claim as false. Visitors in Rome fall under Italian law, where only operators licensed by Italy's customs and monopolies agency may offer online gambling.