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San Marino Palazzo del Governo - San Marino Government Palace
Pilgrims in San Marino
Tour of history and spirituality

In 257, Marino arrived in Rimini from the seaside
town of Arbe in Dalmatia. He was summoned
by an edict of the Emperor Diocletian instruct-
ing workers to rebuild the port and the fortifi-
cations of Rimini. Marino was a stonemason, so
he was assigned to the extraction of the stone
from a quarry in the territory of Mount Titano.
Visit to the Fonte di Acquaviva: tradition has it
that here Marino converted, evangelized and
baptized the first San Marino’s citizens.
Visit to the Saint’s Sacello del Santo, on the cliff
of Montalbo, where Marino decided to retire
and lead a hermit’s life, creating a bed inside the Business Proposals Rep. San Marino
rock, still visible today. It consists of a modest-
ly sized, slightly inclined, accessible through an
uphill path. In the old town center, visit of the
Basilica del Santo, formerly known as Pieve or
Domus plebis (House of the People), the Basilica
preserves the most precious treasure, the relics
of its Holy Founder. The imposing marble monu- admire the Palazzo Pubblico, the political and in- chitectural and artistic complex. The walls are the
ment protects the precious silver reliquary, in the stitutional heart of the Republic. oldest ones in the whole Republic.
shape of a bust, with the cranial bones of Saint At the inauguration, Giosuè Carducci, who gave a The first settlement of Franciscan Friars in San
Marino. memorable speech on the perpetual freedom of Marino dates back to the time before the death
Curiosity: the historical vicissitudes of the relics the Republic, was the speaker of honor. of St. Francis of Assisi (1226).
are not unique. After the Saint’s death in the mid- Very interesting to visit is the Great and General The Sanctuary of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
dle of the 4th century, they remained in the same Council Hall, overlooked by an imposing tempera is the national seat of the Guard of Honor and
location for almost three centuries. Later, in the of 9.30 meters by 4.22 meters, entitled San Mari- is the fulcrum of the Marian Center of San Mari-
7th century, due to the invasions of the barba- no, which is dedicated to its people. no, strongly supported by the Bl. Gabriele Allegra
rians, who plundered the churches and stole the Curiosity: September 3, 301 is the founding date who was responsible for the translation of the
remains of the saints, the idea was to hide them. of the Republic, the solemn feast of the Saint and Bible into Chinese.
In the 9th century, the bones were then placed the State. In the dating of public documents of The Monastery of Santa Chiara contains a labori-
in a stone urn and placed under the pavement San Marino, it is not unusual to come across the ous community of Poor Clare Minorite Nuns.
of the Antica Pieve. The hidden bones were such wording “d.F.R”, or “from the Foundation of the The Republic of San Marino, in virtue of its fre-
a success that the people of San Marino them- Republic”, with reference to the year 301 as the edom and jurisdictional autonomy, was never
selves lost the memory of their exact location for beginning of the history of the country. subject to the Napoleonic suppressions, so that
about nine centuries. On the opposite side of the There are other spiritual places in San Marino: the Clarian community of San Marino is among
monument, there is the Throne of the Captains San Quirino Church, built in 1593, preserves the most long-lived in history.
Regent, reserved exclusively for the two Heads some relics of San Quirino, including some bone (Guide by Gabriele Della Balda)
of State of the Republic. The undisputed protag- fragments and a molar tooth.
onist of the apse, in a central position, is the mar- The Church of San Francesco, an exemplary ar-
ble statue of the Saint created by the artist Adam
Taddolini, a student of the Canova school. In this
sculpture the Saint is portrayed with a cartouche,
engraved with the evocative word LIBERTAS, the
legacy to his people of the Republic’s perpetual
freedom.
Along the aisles, on the altars, you can admire
some paintings, the most interesting is the nine-
teenth-century canvas depicting St. Agatha in
glory while saying the word LIBERTAS so that it
is engraved on a shield. The work refers to the
liberation from occupation of San Marino by the
Papal State (1739-1740), for which the martyr
from Catania was proclaimed co-patroness of the 151
Republic, precisely because the act took place on
the day of her feast, 5 February.
The Oratory of St. Peter’s, is next to the Basilica.
After his first stay in the sacellum, Marino deci-
ded to move to a new area of the mountain. The
Saint carved his own bed out of the bare rock
with a chisel and thought of building a place of
worship.
On the roof you can still see some big tiles, the
so-called “tegoloni”, which are believed to have
been made by the Saint himself. San Marino
A few steps from the Basilica del Santo, you can
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