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A San Marino stamp, printed in light of the 18th Olympic Games held in Tokyo, circa 1964 | © neftali / Shutterstock
It has two languages
San Marino residents (Sanmarinese) speak Italian and Romagnol, the old dialect of the surrounding Emilia-Romagna region.
It is not a member of the EU or Eurozone, but uses the Euro as its currency
In 1983 it established official relations with the EU but as a ‘Third State’.
It is considered to have the oldest surviving national constitution in the world
The San Marino constitution was drafted in 1600, in Latin, and comprises a series of six books, referred to as The Statutes of 1600. There is scholarly debate as to whether multiple texts can be classified as a constitution, and therefore there is a large academic camp that instead argues that the US constitution is the oldest constitution still in effect.
Palazzo Pubblico in the old town of San Marino | © Roman Babakin / Shutterstock
Its first entry in the Olympic Games was Summer 1960
It has since entered 12 Summer Olympics and seven Winter Olympics, but has yet to win a medal. Records suggest that shooting is the nation’s strongest sport, with athletes Francesco Amici and Emanuela Felici coming close to running in the finals in 2004.
It is the least visited country in Europe
In 2017, San Marino received the title of ‘Least Visited Country in Europe‘, after just 60,000 international tourists ventured here.
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