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Most Serene Republic of San Marino
Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino (Italian)
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 Coat of arms
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Motto: Libertas (Latin: "Freedom")
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Anthem: Inno Nazionale della Repubblica di San Marino
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Location of San Marino (green)
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| Capital | City of San Marino 43°56′N 12°26′E / 43.933°N 12.433°E |
| Largest settlement | Dogana 43°58′53″N 12°29′22″E / 43.98139°N 12.48944°E |
| Official languages | Italian |
| Other languages | Romagnol |
| Religion | 91.5% Christianity 7.5% no religion 1.0% other |
| Demonym(s) | Sammarinese |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary diarchic directorial republic |
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• Secretary for Foreign and Political Affairs
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Luca Beccari |
| Legislature | Grand and General Council |
| Independence | |
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• From the Roman Empire
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3 September 301 (traditional) |
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• From the Papal States
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1291 |
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| Area | |
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• Total
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61.19 km2 (23.63 sq mi) (191st) |
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• Water (%)
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0 |
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• 2024 estimate
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35,436 (191st) |
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• Density
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579/km2 (1,499.6/sq mi) (24th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2024 estimate |
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• Total
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 $2.978 billion (176th) |
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• Per capita
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$86,989 (7th) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2024 estimate |
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$2.034 billion (171st) |
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• Per capita
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$59,405 (12th) |
| HDI (2022) | 0.867 very high · 43rd |
| Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (CET) |
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• Summer (DST)
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UTC+02 (CEST) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +378 (+39 0549 calling via Italy) |
| ISO 3166 code | SM |
| Internet TLD | .sm |
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San Marino ( san-_-mə-REE-noh Romagnol: San Maréin or San Maroin), officially the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino) and also known as the Republic of San Marino (Italian: Repubblica di San Marino), is the oldest existing representative republic and the European state with the smallest population, apart from Vatican City. It is surrounded by Italy. Located on the northeastern side of the Apennine Mountains, it is the fifth-smallest country in the world, with a land area of just over 61 km2 (23+1⁄2 sq mi) and a population of 33,642, as of 2023.
San Marino is a landlocked country; however, its northeastern end is within ten kilometres (six miles) of the Adriatic coast through the Italian city of Rimini. The country's capital city, the City of San Marino, is located atop Monte Titano, while its largest settlement is Dogana, within the municipality of Serravalle. San Marino's official language is Italian.
The country derives its name from Saint Marinus, a stonemason from the then-Roman island of Rab in present-day Croatia. According to legendary accounts, he was born in 275 AD, participated in the rebuilding of Rimini's city walls after their destruction by Liburnian pirates, and later founded an independent monastic community on Monte Titano in 301 AD; thus, San Marino lays claim to being the oldest extant sovereign state, as well as the oldest constitutional republic.
Uniquely, San Marino's constitution dictates that its democratically elected legislature, the Grand and General Council, must elect two heads of state every six months. Known as the Captains Regent, they serve concurrently and with equal powers.
The country's economy is mainly based on finance, industry, services, retail, and tourism. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita, with a figure comparable to the most developed European regions. The country ranks 44th in the Human Development Index. San Marino is the first existing State that abolished the death penalty.
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History
According to legendary accounts that are first recorded centuries after he is suggested to have lived, Saint Marinus left the island of Rab in present-day Croatia with his lifelong friend Leo, and went to the city of Rimini as a stonemason. After the Diocletianic Persecution following his Christian sermons, he escaped to the nearby Monte Titano, where he built a small church and thus founded what is now the city and state of San Marino.
According to William Miller, these accounts of the origin of San Marino "are a mixture of fables and miracles, but perhaps contain some grains of fact". The earliest historical evidence for a monastic community in San Marino dates to the 5th or 6th century AD, when a monk named Eugippus recorded that another monk had lived in a monastery in the area. In 1291, San Marino appealed to the bishop of Arezzo, Ildebrandino Guidi di Romena, against the contribution demands by the Vicario del Montefeltro. Jurist Palamede di Rimini decided in favour of San Marino and recognised its tax exemption from tributes demands of Montefeltro. In 1296, when Guglielmo Durante was the governor of Romagna, Sammarinesi appealed to Pope Boniface VIII against the further requests by the Montefeltro podestas regarding tributes. Abbot Ranieri di Sant'Anastasio was assigned to judge the dispute. A long process was held using various witnesses and sources to determine San Marino tax's exemption status. The verdict was probably in favour of the autonomy of San Marino, as later the State did not pay taxes to the Montefeltro.
In 1320, the community of Chiesanuova chose to join the country. In 1463, San Marino was enlarged by the inclusion of the communities of Faetano, Fiorentino, Montegiardino, and Serravalle; since then, the country's borders have remained unchanged.
In 1503, Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, occupied the Republic for six months until his father's successor, Pope Julius II, intervened and restored the country's independence.
On 4 June 1543, Fabiano di Monte San Savino, nephew of the later Pope Julius III, attempted to conquer the republic, but his infantry and cavalry failed as they got lost in a dense fog, which the Sammarinesi attributed to Saint Quirinus, whose feast day it was.
After the Duchy of Urbino was annexed by the Papal States in 1625, San Marino became surrounded by the papal states. This led to its seeking the formal protection of the Papal States in 1631, but this never amounted to a de facto Papal control of the republic.
The country was occupied on 17 October 1739 by the legate (Papal governor) of Ravenna, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni, but independence was restored by Pope Clement XII on 5 February 1740, the feast day of Saint Agatha, after which she became a patron saint of the republic.
The advance of Napoleon's army in 1797 presented a brief threat to the independence of San Marino, but the country was saved from losing its liberty by one of its regents, Antonio Onofri, who managed to gain the respect and friendship of Napoleon. Due to Onofri's intervention, Napoleon promised, in a letter to Gaspard Monge, scientist and commissary of the French Government for Science and Art, to guarantee and protect the independence of the Republic, even offering to extend its territory according to its needs. The offer was declined by the regents, fearing future retaliation from other states' revanchism.
During the later phase of the Italian unification process in the 19th century, San Marino served as a refuge for many people persecuted because of their support for unification, including Giuseppe Garibaldi and his wife Anita. Garibaldi allowed San Marino to remain independent. San Marino and the Kingdom of Italy signed a Convention of Friendship in 1862.
The government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. He wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that "government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring".
20th century onwards
During World War I, when Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on 24 May 1915, San Marino remained neutral and Italy adopted a hostile view of Sammarinese neutrality, suspecting that San Marino could harbour Austrian spies who could be given access to its new radiotelegraph station. Italy tried to forcibly establish a detachment of Carabinieri in the republic and then cut the republic's telephone lines when it did not acquiesce. Two groups of ten volunteers joined the Italian forces in the fighting on the Italian front, the first as combatants and the second as a medical corps operating a Red Cross field hospital. The existence of this hospital later caused Austria-Hungary to suspend diplomatic relations with San Marino.
After the war, San Marino suffered from high rates of unemployment and inflation, leading to increased tension between the lower and middle classes. The latter, fearing that the moderate government of San Marino would make concessions to the lower class majority, began to show support for the Sammarinese Fascist Party (Partito Fascista Sammarinese, PFS), founded in 1922 and styled largely on their Italian counterpart. PFS rule lasted from 1923 to 1943, and during this time they often sought support from Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy. During World War II, San Marino remained neutral, although it was wrongly reported in an article in The New York Times that it had declared war on the United Kingdom on 17 September 1940. The Sammarinese government later transmitted a message to the British government stating that they had not actually declared war.
On 28 July 1943, three days after the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, PFS rule collapsed and the new government declared neutrality in the conflict. The PFS regained power on 1 April 1944, but kept neutrality intact. On 26 June 1944, San Marino was bombed by four waves of Allied bombers under the belief that San Marino had been occupied by German forces and was being used to amass stores and ammunition. The Sammarinese government declared on the same day that no military installations or equipment were located on its territory, and that no belligerent forces had been allowed to enter. San Marino accepted thousands of civilian refugees when Allied forces overran the Gothic Line. In September 1944, it was briefly occupied by German forces, who were defeated by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino. Allied troops occupied San Marino for two months before departing.
San Marino became a member of the Council of Europe in 1988 and of the United Nations in 1992. It is not a member of the European Union, although it uses the euro as its currency (despite not legally being part of the Eurozone). Before the introduction of the euro, the country's currency was the Sammarinese lira.
Geography
San Marino is surrounded by Italy in Southern Europe, i.e. almost completely by the province of Rimini in the region of Emilia Romagna and, only on a stretch of about three kilometres in the south, by the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region. San Marino lies about ten kilometres (six miles) from the Adriatic coast at Rimini. Its hilly topography, with no substantial naturally flat ground, is part of the Apennine mountain range. The highest point in the country, the summit of Monte Titano, is 749 m (2,457 ft) above sea level; the lowest, the Ausa River (ending in the Marecchia), is 55 m (180 ft). San Marino has no still or contained bodies of water of any significant size.
It is one of only three countries in the world to be completely surrounded by one other country. The other two are Vatican City, also surrounded by Italy, and Lesotho, surrounded by South Africa. It is the third smallest country in Europe, after Vatican City and Monaco, and the fifth-smallest country in the world.
The terrestrial ecoregion of Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests lies within San Marino's territory. The country had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 0.01/10, ranking it last globally out of 172 countries.
Climate
San Marino has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfa), with some continental influences. It has warm to hot summers and cool winters, typical of inland areas of the central Italian Peninsula. Precipitation is scattered throughout the year with no real dry month. Snowfalls are common and heavy almost every winter, especially above 400–500 m (1,300–1,600 feet) of elevation.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.9 (66.0) |
17.6 (63.7) |
21.0 (69.8) |
24.5 (76.1) |
31.9 (89.4) |
35.5 (95.9) |
35.1 (95.2) |
36.1 (97.0) |
30.5 (86.9) |
24.9 (76.8) |
20.4 (68.7) |
19.2 (66.6) |
36.1 (97.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) |
7.0 (44.6) |
10.2 (50.4) |
15.0 (59.0) |
19.6 (67.3) |
25.0 (77.0) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.1 (79.0) |
20.6 (69.1) |
15.6 (60.1) |
10.8 (51.4) |
7.4 (45.3) |
15.9 (60.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.2 (39.6) |
4.7 (40.5) |
7.3 (45.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
15.7 (60.3) |
20.8 (69.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
22.5 (72.5) |
17.5 (63.5) |
13.0 (55.4) |
8.6 (47.5) |
5.2 (41.4) |
12.9 (55.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) |
2.5 (36.5) |
4.8 (40.6) |
8.5 (47.3) |
12.4 (54.3) |
17.3 (63.1) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.2 (66.6) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.9 (51.6) |
6.7 (44.1) |
3.2 (37.8) |
10.2 (50.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.5 (20.3) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
1.3 (34.3) |
8.8 (47.8) |
10.0 (50.0) |
10.8 (51.4) |
5.8 (42.4) |
0.9 (33.6) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 50.2 (1.98) |
63.9 (2.52) |
64.5 (2.54) |
59.4 (2.34) |
70.3 (2.77) |
54.3 (2.14) |
40.4 (1.59) |
40.7 (1.60) |
75.3 (2.96) |
70.2 (2.76) |
99.0 (3.90) |
61.4 (2.42) |
749.5 (29.51) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 7.2 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 10.2 | 8.3 | 86.3 |
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Government
San Marino is a representative democratic republic. Executive power is exercised by the government. Although there is no formal head of government, the secretary for foreign and political affairs is in many ways equal to the prime minister in other countries. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Grand and General Council. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
San Marino is considered to have the earliest written governing documents still in effect, as the Statutes of 1600 are still at the core of its constitutional framework.
San Marino was originally led by the Arengo, initially formed from the heads of each family. In the 13th century, power was given to the Grand and General Council. In 1243, the first two captains regent were nominated by the council. Still today, Captains Regent are elected every six months by the council.
The legislature of the republic is the Grand and General Council (Consiglio grande e generale). The council is a unicameral legislature with 60 members. There are elections every five years by proportional representation in all nine administrative districts. These districts (townships) correspond to the old parishes of the republic. All citizens 18 years or older are eligible to vote.
Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the captains regent, the State Congress (composed of ten secretaries with executive power), the Council of Twelve (which forms the judicial branch during the period of legislature of the council), the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions. The council also has the power to ratify treaties with other countries. The council is divided into five different Advising Commissions consisting of fifteen councilors who examine, propose, and discuss the implementation of new laws that are on their way to being presented on the floor of the council.
Every six months, the council elects two captains regent to be the heads of state. The captains are chosen from opposing parties so that there is a balance of power. They serve a six-month term. The investiture of the captains regent takes place on 1 April and 1 October in every year. Once this term is over, citizens have three days in which to file complaints about the captains' activities. If they warrant it, judicial proceedings against the ex-head(s) of state can be initiated.
The practice of having two heads of state chosen in frequent elections is derived directly from the customs of the Roman Republic. The council is equivalent to the Roman Senate; the captains regent, to the consuls of ancient Rome. It is thought the inhabitants of the area came together as Roman rule collapsed to form a rudimentary government for their own protection from foreign rule.
San Marino has had more female heads of state than any other country: 15 as of October 2014, including three who served twice.
Administrative divisions
San Marino is geographically divided into nine castelli (lit. castles, equivalent to a municipality), each of which contains a capital (capoluogo), with other population centres sorted into curazie (equivalent to Italian frazioni). Each castello is led by a Castle Captain (Italian: Capitano di Castello) and a Castle Council (Giunta di Castello), elected every five years.
The nine castelli are the City of San Marino, which is San Marino's capital city, Acquaviva, Borgo Maggiore, Chiesanuova, Domagnano, Faetano, Fiorentino, Montegiardino, and Serravalle.
San Marino's 44 curazie are Cà Berlone, Cà Chiavello, Cà Giannino, Cà Melone, Cà Ragni, Cà Rigo, Cailungo (di Sopra and di Sotto), Caladino, Calligaria, Canepa, Capanne, Casole, Castellaro, Cerbaiola, Cinque Vie, Confine, Corianino, Crociale, Dogana, Falciano, Fiorina, Galavotto, Gualdicciolo, La Serra, Lesignano, Molarini, Montalbo, Monte Pulito, Murata, Pianacci, Piandivello, Poggio Casalino, Poggio Chiesanuova, Ponte Mellini, Rovereta, San Giovanni sotto le Penne, Santa Mustiola, Spaccio Giannoni, Teglio, Torraccia, Valdragone (di Sopra and di Sotto), Valgiurata, and Ventoso.
Economy
San Marino's key industries include banking, electronics, and ceramics. The main agricultural products are wine and cheese. San Marino imports mainly staple goods from Italy.
San Marino has the world's third highest rate of car ownership, being one of only a handful of countries with more vehicles than people.
The tourism sector contributes over 22% of San Marino's GDP, with approximately 2 million tourists having visited in 2014.
Population
As of September 2023, San Marino is estimated to number 33,896 residents. Of these, 28,226 have Sammarinese citizenship, while 4,881 have Italian citizenship, with 789 citizens of other countries.
The primary language spoken is Italian; Romagnol is also widely spoken.
Notable people
- Giovanni Battista Belluzzi (1506 in San Marino – 1554), architect
- Francesco Maria Marini (fl. 1637), composer of early Baroque music
- Francesco de' Marini (1630 in Genova – 1700), Catholic archbishop
- Antonio Onofri (1759–1825), statesman, "Father of his Country".
- Little Tony (1941 in Tivoli – 2013), pop and rock musician
- Pasquale Valentini (born 1953 in San Marino), politician who has held multiple ministerial posts
- Massimo Bonini (born 1959 in San Marino), football player who played for Juventus
- Marco Macina (born 1964 in San Marino), footballer who played for Bologna FC, Parma, Reggiana, and AC Milan.
- Valentina Monetta (born 1975 in San Marino), singer who represented San Marino four times in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Manuel Poggiali (born 1983 in San Marino), Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion
- Alex de Angelis (born 1984 in Rimini), Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- Alessandra Perilli (born 1988 in Rimini), shooting Olympic silver and bronze medalist and first San Marino citizen to win a medal (Tokyo 2020)
- Gian Marco Berti (born 1982 in San Marino), shooting Olympic silver medalist and second San Marino citizen to win a medal (Tokyo 2020)
- Myles Nazem Amine (born 1996 in Dearborn, Michigan), 2020 86 kg wrestling Olympic bronze medalist and third San Marino citizen to win a medal (Tokyo 2020)
Religion
San Marino is a predominantly Catholic state, though Catholicism is not an established religion. 97.2% of the population professed the Catholic faith in 2011, and approximately half of those regularly attend church.
Culture
The Three Towers of San Marino are located on the three peaks of Monte Titano in the capital. They are depicted on both the flag of San Marino and its coat of arms. The three towers are: Guaita, the oldest of the three (it was constructed in the 11th century); the 13th-century Cesta, located on the highest of Monte Titano's summits; and the 14th-century Montale, on the smallest of Monte Titano's summits, still privately owned.
University
The Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino (University of the Republic of San Marino) is the main university, which includes the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino (Graduate School of Historical Studies), a distinguished research and advanced international study centre governed by an international Scientific Committee coordinated by the emeritus historian Luciano Canfora. An important music institution is the Istituto Musicale Sammarinese (Sammarinese Musical Institute).
The Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino or Accademia Internazionale delle Scienze San Marino (International Academy of Sciences San Marino) was known for adopting Esperanto as the language for teaching and for scientific publications. The Akademio was dissolved in 2020.
Italian author Umberto Eco had attempted to create a "university without physical structures" in San Marino.
Sport
In San Marino football is the most popular sport. Basketball and volleyball are also popular. The three sports have their own federations, the San Marino Football Federation, the San Marino Basketball Federation and the San Marino Volleyball Federation.
The San Marino national football team has had little success, being made up of part-timers. The team has never qualified for a major tournament, and has recorded only three wins in the more than 25 years of its history. The first two,1–0 victories over Liechtenstein; the first came in a 2004 friendly, and the second, their first competitive victory, came during the group stage of the 2024-25 UEFA Nations League. Their third win, a 3-1 victory against Liechtenstein was their first ever away victory. This carried additional prestige as it secured San Marino’s promotion to league C for the 2026-27 UEFA Nations league, the greatest achievement in the teams history. They have drawn four more times, with their most notable result being a 1993 0–0 draw with Turkey during the European qualifiers for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. In the same qualifying competition, Davide Gualtieri scored a goal 8.3 seconds into a match against England; this goal held the record for the fastest in international football until 2016. San Marino has a club in the Italian league system called A.S.D.V. San Marino and a domestic amateur league, the Campionato Sammarinese, whose teams also participate in European club competitions. Together with Italy, San Marino held the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, with teams playing at the Stadio Olimpico in Serravalle. With Italy being the sole automatic qualifiers, the Sammarinese team did not participate in the final tournament.
A Formula One race, the San Marino Grand Prix, was named after the state, although it did not take place there. Instead, it was held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in the Italian town of Imola, about 100 km (60 mi) northwest of San Marino. Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna suffered fatal accidents a day apart during the 1994 Grand Prix. This international event was removed from the calendar in 2007, although the circuit has since returned to the calendar as the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
The San Marino and Rimini's Coast motorcycle Grand Prix was reinstated in the schedule in 2007 and takes place at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, as does San Marino's round of the World Superbike Championship.
San Marino has a professional baseball team which plays in Italy's top division. It has participated in the European Cup tournament for the continent's top club sides several times, hosting the event in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2007. It won the championship in 2006, 2011 and 2014.
Shooting is also very popular in San Marino, with many shooters having taken part in international competitions and the Olympic Games. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, San Marino became the smallest country to earn an Olympic medal when Alessandra Perilli won a bronze medal in the women's trap. They later won another medal, this one silver, with Perilli's and Gian Marco Berti's performance in the mixed trap shooting event.
Cuisine
The cuisine of San Marino is extremely similar to central Italian cuisine, especially that of the adjoining Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions, but it has a number of its own unique dishes and products. Its best known is probably the Torta Tre Monti ("Cake of the Three Mountains" or "Cake of the Three Towers"), a wafer layered cake covered in chocolate depicting the Three Towers of San Marino. The country also has a small wine industry.
UNESCO
The site San Marino: Historic Centre and Mount Titano became part of the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008. The decision was taken during the 32nd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee composed of 21 countries convened in Québec, Canada.
Music
The country has a long and rich musical tradition, closely linked to that of Italy, but which is also highly independent in itself. A well-known 17th-century composer is Francesco Maria Marini. The pop singer Little Tony achieved considerable success in the United Kingdom and Italy in the 1950s and 1960s.
San Marino has taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest eleven times, achieving three final qualifications to date (with then-three, eventually four-time contestant and San Marino native Valentina Monetta with "Maybe" in 2014, Turkish singer Serhat with "Say Na Na Na" who achieved 19th place in the final in 2019 and Italian singer Senhit along with American rapper Flo Rida who qualified for the 2021 final with the song "Adrenalina").
Theatre
The Teatro Nuovo (Serravalle) is a theatre of the Republic of San Marino located in Dogana, a town in the Serravalle municipality ("castello"), not far from the border with Italy. It has a capacity of 872 seats of which 604 are in the stalls and is the largest theatre in the republic.
Museums and galleries
There are a number of state-run national museums and galleries based in San Marino.
Museo delle Armi Antiche
The Museum of Ancient Arms is dedicated to ancient weapons, uniforms, armour and experimental weapons.
Museo di Stato
The State Museum has a permanent art collection dedicated to the history and legends of the Republic. Many of these pieces originally came from public and religious buildings in the City of San Marino. Also on display are paintings and objects from the Monastery of Saint Chiara. As well as the permanent collection, the museum also hosts temporary exhibtions such as Mario Ferretti: An Artistic Restlessness of the 20th Century. The main room of the museum displays paintings by Guercino and his pupils, Cesare Gennari and Benedetto Gennari, Matteo Loves and Elisabetta Sirani. The works in an adjacent room are dedicated to the two patron saints of the Republic, Saint Marino and Saint Agata. There are also objects, such as urns and plates, that are used by San Marino institutions. Other items on display are panel paintings and sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Pinacoteca di San Francesco
The St Francis art gallery displays archaeological, artistic and numismatic collections.
Galleria Nazionale
The National Gallery is for the protection, conservation and enhancement of the UNESCO heritage.
Museo del Francobollo e della Moneta
The museum is dedicated to the stamps and coins of San Marino.
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
The Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery hosts more than 1,000 works dating from the period between the first decade of the 20th century to the present.
Museo dell’Emigrante
The Museum of the Emigrant is a permanent study centre dedicated to emigration. It opened in 1997 and is housed in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
Museo di Storia Naturale
The Museum of Natural History is based in the San Marino Natural History Centre in the Borgo Maggiore municipality.
Public holidays and festivals
| Date | Name | Explanation |
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| 1 January | New Year's Day | Festival marking the beginning of the new year |
| 6 January | Epiphany | Commemorates the visit of the three wise men or magi to the infant Jesus |
| 5 February | Feast of Saint Agatha | Commemoration of Saint Agatha, co-patroness of the Republic after the country was liberated from foreign rule on her feast day in 1740 |
| Variable, the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox | Easter | Resurrection of Jesus |
| Variable, the Monday after Easter Sunday | Easter Monday | Monday after Easter day |
| 25 March | Anniversary of the Arengo | Anniversary of the 1906 Arengo and the Festa delle Milizie (Feast of the Militants) |
| 1 May | Labour Day | Celebration of workers and employees |
| Variable, the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday | Corpus Christi | Commemoration of the body and blood of Jesus Christ |
| 28 July | Liberation from Fascism | Commemoration of the fall of the Sammarinese Fascist Party |
| 15 August | Ferragosto (Assumption) | Commemoration of the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven |
| 3 September | The Feast of Saint Marinus and the Republic | National feast of Saint Marinus (San Marino), celebrating the origin of the Republic in 301 |
| 1 November | All Saints' Day | Feast dedicated to all saints |
| 2 November | Commemoration of all those who died at war | Remembrance of all those who gave their lives for San Marino in war |
| 8 December | Immaculate Conception | Remembrance of the Virgin Mary's conception without original sin |
| 24 December | Christmas Eve | Day before the commemoration of the birth of Jesus |
| 25 December | Christmas | Birth of Jesus |
| 26 December | Saint Stephen's Day | Commemoration of the death of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr |
| 31 December | New Year's Eve | Celebration which closes and marks the end of the year |
See also
In Spanish: San Marino para niños
