San Marino

You can see two of the three towers (as seen on the flag of San Marino) by purchasing the “Two-Museums” card for €6.50. The single ticket (€4.5) only allows you to see one of the towers. You cannot enter the third tower (there does not seem to be an entrance!) Almost all museums can be visited with the “Multiple museum” card for €10.5.

Simply walk around the city. The narrow streets are full of surprises. The walkways wind up and down the hillside in an interesting way, inviting exploration. You can rent an ebike to discover all the territory, take a touristic guide do discover the historical center or an environment guide to see the nature of San Marino at San Marino Experience

Fish can be caught in San Marino lake in Faetano.

Get your passports stamped at the tourist information centre. This is an excellent souvenir as they stick a visa tax stamp and then an official ink stamp over the top, €5.

Contrary to previous entries, obtaining such a stamp does not in any way invalidate your passport. San Marino is a fully, internationally recognised sovereign country, and as such is perfectly entitled to issue its own passport stamps to anyone who wishes to have one. Whether they are for official immigration or optional souvenir purposes is not relevant; there is still nothing illegal whatsoever about getting one and absolutely no problems will arise from you having a San Marino stamp in your passport. If you want a stamp then get one without hesitation; it’s a unique souvenir.

International agreements define the country’s currency as the same as Italy’s, so San Marino has the euro (€) as its sole currency along with 24 other countries that use this common European money. These 24 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain (official euro members which are all European Union member states) as well as Andorra, Kosovo, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and the Vatican which use it without having a say in eurozone affairs and without being European Union members. Together, these countries have a population of more than 330 million.

One euro is divided into 100 cents. While each official euro member (as well as Monaco, San Marino and Vatican) issues its own coins with a unique obverse, the reverse, as well as all bank notes, look the same throughout the eurozone. Every coin is legal tender in any of the eurozone countries.

Like other states which have the Euro as their currency, San Marino has its own patterns on the back of the Euro coins. You can try to obtain these coins by simply going around buying things and collecting the coins that way, but a quicker solution is to buy the set in a souvenir shop. Unfortunately, these sets seem to lack the € 1 and € 2 coins.

A lot of the souvenir shops sell weapons, from swords to B-B guns.

Prices for items such as disposable cameras and batteries are cheaper in San Marino than they are in Italy. This is partly because in San Marino you don’t have to pay the 22% IVA (VAT) that you have to pay in Italy.

Price of Cigarettes are lower than Italy.

Tax Free is available for all the tourist that comes in San Marino with Passport and Valid Credit Card (except italian).