The first officially-sanctioned casino at the health resort of Spa, Belgium, was the Redoute. It opened 1765 in a temporary structure (much like Detroit casinos 230 years later), with the permanent building opening in 1769.
You can read more about early European casinos, as well as ones in Asia and the Americas, in Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.
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