Today we wandered around San Marino. All the streets are either steeply up or steeply down. The main attractions are the towers which protected the city. We visited two of the towers and just took pictures of the third from a distance.
The town itself is quaint and looks very old with what look like very old stone walls.
The streets are lined with stores and many people come here to shop since the tax is about half of what it is in Italy. There are many weapons stores, guns, swords, etc. I asked why there are so many gun stores and the answer was it is legal to sell them here but not legal to sell them in Italy. Apparently Italian citizens need a permit which requires a lot of paperwork in order to buy a gun. There are a lot of scary looking, automatic guns. 😖
We also walked to the Palazzo Pubblico. Sammarinese calls it ’‘the heart of San Marino.’’ It was built between 1884 and 1894 and is the official government building as well as a town hall of the capital city. We couldn’t go in because the government was in session but should be able to go in tomorrow.
There were fanastic views from the palazzo. Although the weather wasn’t great. You could see all the way to the Adriatic Sea.
That evening we had a very nice dinner with Kassandra who had done pretty much the same things we did.