The city was given UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2008.Credit: Getty Images
Given UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2008, San Marino’s past can be seen and felt today in its medieval fortresses, stone churches and winding, cobblestone streets. In pictures, it looks like the fairytale principality of a European royal empire from the Middle Ages. Squint and you can almost see golden-locked Disney princesses in towers and toothless ogres peering out of dungeons.
As we drive towards our destination, tour guide Yvonne jokes that San Marino is so independent of Italy it even has its own weather system. She points it out in the distance, a hilly commune under an incongruent patch of blue sky, devoid of the mist and rain clouds we’re passing through.
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