San Marino country guide — reviewed 25 October 2026 Territory, nine municipalities and landscape https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/contenuto/About-San-Marino/I-NOVE-CASTELLI.html https://giuntedicastello.sm/ https://www.chiesanuova.sm/il-castello/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1245/ Nine castelli are municipalities. Dogana belongs to Serravalle. The country is entirely landlocked within Italy, with an area of about 61 km². Mount Titano rises to about 739 m. UNESCO's 2008 inscription is cultural, not a designation of the whole republic as a nature reserve. Foundation tradition and documented republican history https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/contenuto/About-San-Marino/STORIA.html https://www.sanmarinopertutti.com/default.asp?id=430 https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/san-marino https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/ 301 is the traditional foundation date associated with Saint Marinus. Do not present modern republican institutions as unchanged since 301. Joint heads of state are documented from 1243; statutes date from 1600. The republic sheltered Garibaldi in 1849 and joined the UN in 1992. Institutions, elections and rights https://www.reggenzadellarepubblica.sm/pub1/ReggenzaSM/en/Capitani_Reggenti/Capitani_Reggenti_In_Carica.html https://www.elezioni.sm/on-line/home.html https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/listituzione/funzione.html https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=31688&lang=en https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/scheda17010939.html https://www.unirsm.sm/en/dipartimento-scienze-umane/progetto-di-ricerca/elettrici-ed-elette-nella-repubblica-di-san-marino/ The sixty-member Great and General Council elects two Captains Regent from its members for six-month terms starting 1 April and 1 October. The 1974 Declaration of Citizens' Rights complements the historic statutes. Women's voting rights were recognised in 1959; their first national vote was in 1964. Citizenship, residence and language are different categories. Currency, trade and economy https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents/treaties-agreements/agreement/?id=1991054 https://www.eeas.europa.eu/un-rome/european-union-and-san-marino_en?s=65 https://www.esteri.sm/pub2/EsteriSM/en/UE/Altri-accordi.html https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/euro/use-euro/euro-outside-euro-area_en https://www.camcom.sm/en/doing-business-in-san-marino-2/international-agreements-and-relations/ The cooperation and customs union agreement was signed 16 December 1991 and entered into force in 2002 following interim arrangements. San Marino uses the euro by monetary agreement. It is not an EU member. Avoid undated annual visitor totals or claims that tourism is the whole national economy. Culture, museums and food https://www.caa-mna.sm/national-holidays https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub2/VisitSM/en/evento/20260205_Festa_di_santagata.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/contenuto/Vivi/Funivia.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Prima-Torre.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Seconda-Torre.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Terza-Torre-Montale.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Palazzo-Pubblico.html https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub1/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Museo-di-Stato.html https://www.museidistato.sm/ https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub2/VisitSM/en/contenuto/About-San-Marino/Gastronomia.html The national day is 3 September; Saint Agatha's 5 February celebration is separate. Palazzo Pubblico was inaugurated in 1894. The State Museum has occupied Palazzo Pergami Belluzzi since 2001. Montale is generally viewed from outside. Pins are learning locations, not entrances or guaranteed access. Piadina, pasta, beans, wine and olive oil connect the republic to surrounding Romagna and Marche. The food photograph shows a pistachio Tre Monti variant. People and international sport https://www.cons.sm/2021/08/23/alessandra-perilli-gian-marco-berti-e-myles-amine-insigniti-della-medaglia-al-merito-di-prima-classe/ https://www.cons.sm/en/games/parigi-2024/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Borghesi At Tokyo 2020, held in 2021, Perilli won women's trap bronze, Perilli and Berti mixed-team trap silver, and Myles Amine wrestling bronze. Borghesi was born in Italy and settled in San Marino; do not imply he was born here. Map reference and provenance © OpenStreetMap contributors — Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0) https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/SMR/ADM0/ https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/blob/9469f09/releaseData/gbOpen/SMR/ADM0/geoBoundaries-SMR-ADM0.geojson National outline: geoBoundaries SMR-ADM0-7152903, OpenStreetMap / Wambacher, representing 2017; source snapshot 9469f09. It is a dated reference rather than a legal survey. Full source and licence metadata is in scripts/san-marino-boundary-metadata.json. The derived outline retains attribution and ODbL metadata in /san-marino-land.geojson. The nine hand-curated castello pins represent main settlement locations, not boundaries or polygon centroids. Names are checked against the official nine-castelli list. Coordinates are learning references cross-checked with Wikipedia and the official visitor map; Borgo Maggiore uses Piazza Grande. Sights use representative positions, including the cable car's lower station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_San_Marino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgo_Maggiore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquaviva,_San_Marino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serravalle,_San_Marino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesanuova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domagnano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faetano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiorentino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montegiardino Where a sight has no separate English Wikipedia article, the contextual article for its city is linked; the pin's name still identifies the sight. Photographs All eleven photographs are stored locally under /images/country-guides/san-marino/. Each adjacent .source.json records its Commons description page, original URL, author and exact licence metadata. The guide displays author and licence attribution linked to that source page. The hero is Max Ryazanov's Fortress of Guaita 2013-09-19, CC BY-SA 3.0. Other licences are recorded individually; no blanket licence is implied. Wikimedia thumbnails were resized and JPEG recompressed, with responsive cropping at display time.