Bucket List 196: San Marino!
The Road Travelled · Tales From San Marino · Photos
Country 59/196: San Marino. As far as micronations go, few are more pleasing to the eye than this one. Fewer still require a cable car to reach their capital but San Marino is not your usual country. The oldest sovereign state on earth, as well as the fifth smallest, she elects new leaders every six months, so only slightly less often than the UK. As well as elections, the Sammarinese love ‘Libertas’ (liberty), Abraham Lincoln, and Halloween ghost trains driven by the undead. All aboard the San Marino Halloween Express!
The Road Travelled
Tales From San Marino
The Mount of Monte Titano
January 29th, 2023 Following an introductory peep around the striking streets of the Sammarinese capital the previous afternoon, we were up with the first cable car the following morn, sashaying our way to the top of Monte Titano for a full day of hedonistic exploration. We followed the ancient city’s winding lanes up to our first stop, the…
Van Marino
November 10th, 2022 Extremely old country, awful football team, perennially last in Eurovision, no not the United Kingdom but our next micronation: San Marino. Nestled in north-eastern Italy, ten kilometres west of the Italian coastal city of Rimini, San Marino can lay claim to having been an independent republic since Saint Marinus formed a monastic community there in…
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San Marino
Country: 59/196 Visited: Autumn ’22
