Little Europe: San Marino - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

Watch the full episode: • Little Europe: Five Mi... The Republic of San Marino brags it's the world's oldest and smallest republic. It's remained sovereign and independent from Italy through almost all its 1,700-year history. Located in the rugged Apennine Mountains, San Marino takes you back to the age of city-states, an era of pageantry, pride, and fierce independence.
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[@rebo923]

This is my city, where i live, i'm so happy for you here!!!!!!!!

[@justforfun4151]

Rebo can u live in italy as well? or u need a vissa?

[@MrBlitz-kr2wo]

I love this country🙂

[@cwbrooks5329]

What a beautiful city. You are truly blessed to make your life there.

[@1ukjunglednbraver]

i bet they are so proud of their country, what a cool place : )

[@Rolando_Cueva]

It must be very easy to make tourism all around the country!

[@Astr0_Feline]

1ukjunglednbraver I agree with you! It’s an amazing place!

[@chasea7435]

I got a handmade backpack all leather from San Marino. It’s so awesome. Still smells great after 2 years and me using it for school. The city is so nice and everyone is very friendly. (Coming from Texas)

[@gustavsamuel]

@@chasea7435 How much was it? That’s awesome!

[@lorenzomularoni8669]

We are!!!!❤

[@wparo]

Shops were expensive. But the city was beautiful

[@danmagro2294]

Country

[@j.w.grayson6937]

Thanks to Venice not allowing cruise ship to use tenders to visit, our Sep. 2024 cruise is instead porting in Ravenna, Italy. So, NCL is now offering an excursion to San Marino. This will allow us to visit this microstate!

[@bighand1530]

123 days left till September 2024.

[@panzwes5993]

This is such an informative and well-made video. I've just booked a trip there and it helps to learn something about the destination beforehand. This looks like a beautiful place, proud of it's history.

[@cheepydog]

wow it’s so good I wish it was like this too in every country

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Europe is pretty much home to all these small mini countries.

[@mohmmedabounouar4776]

Beautifull people Beautifull country Beautifull music

[@maureengrant9077]

What a great place. I absolutely loved it.

[@1Nanalo]

The Home to Queen Valentina Monetta

[@s6otti]

1Nanalo the eurovison queen

[@mcgistomcgisto]

"Although your dominion is small, nevertheless your State is one of the most honoured throughout history." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

And Lincoln was made an honorary citizen of San Marino.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

As you know, Honest Abe was made an honorary citizen of San Marino. He may have been, if not the only US President, one of the few US Presidents to hold citizenship in a foreign country.

[@mohmmedabounouar4776]

Italy is à legend

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

True, but I suppose San Marino was a case of being fiercely independent against all odds.

[@DrEurop]

I love San Marino !! and its all because Valentina Monetta ! Beautiful country and people. Greetings from Israel!

[@timgantumur5750]

Larz Gustafsson I hate Sweden Greetings from Norway

[@swazzercool9060]

And i love San Marino, greetings from. Italy

[@tunemach]

San Marino is looks beautiful! Greetings from America

[@boomdos4265]

I hate Norway. With their smoked fish and mead. Greetings from USA

[@tubelover413]

Beautiful !! Thanks for sharing a nice video. I visited there with my family almost 35 years ago when we lived in West Germany. This video reminds me of the days when my children played with little boys and girls of San Marino. Best regards from the Far East.

[@MrsMonaco2]

Wonderful place. I spent a day and night there. All you need really :) I agree with the tacky shop thing. So many of them. But overall it's beautiful

[@SwimmerPrince]

San Monetta (formerly San Marino) is a beautiful tiny nation.

[@georgemacpherson1992]

Phillip Amura Wrong. It’s always been called San Marino.

[@maruschka2337]

No, San Monetta!

[@lennyfelix98]

I'm a citizen of San Marino, the name has always been San Marino

[@nicolettagasperoni4961]

love this video, I live there!

[@iliapopovich]

zingara italiana

[@nicolettagasperoni4961]

sono sammarinese,e molto orgogliosa di esserlo, i miei avi risalgono a prima del 1700 e oltre non sono andata

[@iliapopovich]

Sorry,stavo scherzando.

[@nicolettagasperoni4961]

ok, don't worry!! me too

[@marino4691]

Nicoletta Gasperoni me not!!

[@samjohn7501]

We all live on top of a hill

[@juliearnold555]

San Marino looks beautiful.

[@victoriaking4634]

Beautiful country

[@Astr0_Feline]

Love San Marino 🇸🇲 from Japan 🇯🇵

[@tushalisarkar1230]

such a beautiful country

[@zoiciteUK]

they need a statue made of valentina monetta in this small country!

[@ghardiyangallan756]

Beautiful place to visit...

[@isabelstrindholm2409]

Great video and very well explained !!

[@Mirani2]

I have been here and it's wonderful!

[@LonelinessJerry]

this definitely deserves a visit

[@Martin_Daniel]

At 00:50 that's the stone stairway you see in *Lupin III* blue jacket series, first episode.

[@HeeftGedaanHD]

Im probably going there this year! Looking forward to it :)

[@baycoralore]

so beautiful! so unreal!

[@deathnyx]

San Marino è una città bellissima.

[@briantravelman]

Wow! I had no idea San Marino had that much too offer! I thought it only had a castle! I wanna go!

[@JohnSmith-ef2sp]

Rick's passport must be as thick as a phone book!!

[@xLobo86x]

wow, it´s like living in a fairytale

[@dlwatib]

Looks like a much more fun place to visit for an ordinary tourist than playgrounds of the rich like Monaco and Monte Carlo.

[@gullf1sk]

Seems like a very nice place, hope i can visit some time

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

I passed through here during a tour of Italy I took in 2000. The only way I knew that I was no longer in Italy was the presence of the Sammerinese flag over government buildings. Other than that, you cannot tell when you leave Italy and enter San Marino.

[@Helliland]

Proud of being a citizen of san marino! the most ancient repuplic in europe!

[@johnm.3374]

Very interesting, I'll keep this place in mind if I go to Italy sometime.

[@edmonds8890]

Hi people, from the island of Rab!

[@RonDozy]

This is like Heroes of Might and Magic III in real life. Awesome! :D

[@magicbulldozer]

Just cause of the video I'm going to Europe and have decided to spend 5 out of my 25 days there

[@nyogtheeldritchgentleman]

4:05 Adorable.

[@selveryakar6148]

The earth is a beautiful place

[@jmc945]

I would like to visit there

[@munang763]

We were just in San Marino last week. This video shows exactly how wonderful this place is. Thanks for uploading the video...It's much more fun to show my family a video rather than static photos. (Laugh) The passport lady is still there...she stamped MY passport too. (I would have never thought to have it stamped....Thanks RS!!!)

[@kaloarepo288]

To say that Andorra was poor until about a generation ago is an exaggeration -I was there in 1982 and it was very prosperous then too!

[@fgiwrgos9972]

lovely place!!

[@Mujangga]

Si on avait la même attitude: l'amour de la liberté et la valorisation de l'indépendance, ici au Québec, on serait déjà libre y il aurait longtemps!

[@23skidoo78]

rick steves is awesome

[@timgantumur5750]

Looks AMAZING!!!!

[@isaquinteros7227]

Me watching this to see where Eurovision 2022 will be held after Senhit takes the crown 👸🏾

[@hadeskadenz3017]

When you have the same military budget as a smaller highway in the south of sweden

[@hugovargas9067]

What a beautiful place. So different to San Marino California.

[@iacobg7497]

i love valentina Monetta ❤️❤️

[@theobserver3753]

interesting place.

[@wrong12gaming85]

Love from India

[@daniloorbolato]

Awesome video

[@bnkundwa]

The country of Saint Joseph

[@happykhan3682]

Wow beuitiful😘😘😘😊🤗🤗

[@Mirani2]

In san Marino right now. :)

[@Liphted]

I can see why Bourdaine style travel shows are so big now.

[@uncleavi2002]

I have always wanted to visit your Country.

[@70543]

I came a few weeks ago it was really nice

[@francogiambenini8962]

San Marino? Mi pacerebbe avere l'auto targara San Marino, le targhe sono troppo belle!!

[@pallesudate4677]

this video has 300k wiews, San Marino has a population of 30k people

[@criskity]

Country #70 in my quest to visit as many countries as I can.

[@tulip5210]

hmm i would like to be here for a while

[@ibrahimbozkurt4164]

Superb

[@kimgarbett6287]

ive been there the people are friendly the food is good but it is hard to get to

[@UnfandeMamiTomoe]

[@handledav]

cool

[@marino4691]

oh yeah

[@Mirani2]

@vittumatti why are bars needed for fun? Why not the mountains?

[@charlesstuart7290]

Fun fact San Marino is only a tad smaller than my hometown of Framingham Ma.

[@KiwiLive]

and now there is the social network song!

[@Empyarg]

Lindo y perdiendo 0-11 con holanda te enteras q existen estos lugares.

[@GTABahasaIndonesia]

1631 until present, San Marino still exists.

[@giancarlounimo7329]

I live there!

[@7869abc]

Фантастична државица. Био сам сад почетком септембра.

[@el_naif]

Which song is it from 1:08?

[@manishpathak8994]

great

[@RemoveGàyrèèks]

ci sono andato tempo fa ed era pieno di vu cumprà!

[@angc1456]

How is the food prices?

[@deadaccount.1186]

Who is sammarinese (San Marino people) here

[@FlagAnthem]

Hello there

[@UnlimitedUGBR]

🎉🎉🎉 wow that's awesome l really love this country honestly speaking l which Nigeria government can give freedom to Biafra just like this. and l need to ask questions do san Marino give documents to someone from Italy.

[@ibrahimbozkurt4164]

Super

[@jacob4959]

It's scary in the mountain villages cause I am feeling that I am falling

[@giancarlounimo7329]

It's actually a town and two villages.

[@aL45Bb]

Stort tack,Många minnen

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

I was rather disappointed that Rick did not explain the nation's system of government which is unique in the world. They have two heads of state called Captains Regent who serve a six-month term and then they must wait another 3.5 years before they can run again. It's sort of like having two presidents. Their parliament is called the Great and General Council which is made up of 60 members. And one final thing; the members of the gendarmarie and judges are all foreigners (virtually all Italian citizens) because in a nation of only 30,000 residents, if judges and policemen and women were native Sammarinese, they would most likely be someone's cousin which may lead to favoritism.

[@bobesmooth]

I feel like I'm watching Tim and Eric. Rick steves is an unintentional comedian. So funny to me

[@hundoria6744]

Im here cuz of Valentina Monetta

[@irenedavo3768]

I remember buying Filigree? Jewelry?

[@nishhnishh1088]

My garden is bigger than San Marno

[@aryheen]

#beautiful.... i hope the access not as difficult as going to Sierra de Guara #c u next month ^_^

[@ZemplinTemplar]

Indeed. :-)

[@dzertblue8015]

Nice define

[@UnfandeMamiTomoe]

San marino ciao

[@999myname999]

@Mirani2 good argument