To history

Until 1277 call uninhabited, 50,000 supporters of the Sung dynasty before the Mongols fled on the up to then uninhabited islands at this time. 1557 erlauten the Chinese the Portuguese the establishment of a settlement. The Portuguese paid lease. When the large brother Hong Kong actually tore ever more the port business, 1847 gambling were legalized. Since gambling is forbidden in Hong Kong, and which admits Chinese as large supporters of gambling is, soon chaotic conditions prevailed. 2002 were waived the gambling monopoly and thus set a storm from operators read in Vegas. In May 2004 that of sand opened, after model read Vegas in, only more largely and more beautifully. For European conditions inconceivably, the investment of 300 million US Dollar was already earned in the first year again by the enormous crush of the players.
That did not let the consortium rest naturally, therefore they built around a ten times so high sum the Venetian Macao Resort - for hotel and casino. 2007 were opened to the third biggest building complex of the world. Only flower-auction-resounds in Aalsmeer and the Pentagon in Washington are larger. The Casinosaal has 51,000 square meters, which corresponds to 7 football fields. In this stand 3,400 Slotmaschinen resound and 800 play tables with all luck play variants. 2008 were permitted to Texas Holdem poker also in Macao.
With speedboats it takes only one hour from Hong Kong to Macao, the speedboats operates 150-mal per day. In addition there are naturally innumerable other casinos, the most worth seeing is the casino Lisboa.