Museums and monuments
Attractions to surprise, inform and entertain.
San Marino is a Republic to be lived, known and explored.
A dream trip amid museums, ancient forts and palaces, immersed in a fairy tale
world.
Attractions to surprise, inform and entertain.
San Marino is a Republic to be lived, known and explored.
A dream trip amid museums, ancient forts and palaces, immersed in a fairy tale
world.
First Tower - Second Tower - State Museum
Public Palace - Gallery of San Francesco
www.museidistato.sm
Phone: 0549 882670
Opening times:
2nd January - 14th March / 25th October - 31st December:
9am – 17pm
15th March - 6th June / 13th September - 24th October
Monday to Friday 9am – 17pm; Saturday and Sunday:
9am – 18pm
07th June - 12th September 8am – 20pm - Easter Monday:
9am – 19pm
The ticket office closes 30 minutes before museum closing time.
Closed the 25th December - 1st January - 2nd November closed only afternoon.
Admission to State Museums
Admission to one Museum/Monument € 3,00
• Discount admission to State Museums
Admission to 1st and 2nd Tower € 4,50
Admission to Public Palace and Gallery of San Francesco € 4.50
Discounted admission for groups of at least 25 people and
for groups of students with accompanying people € 1,50
"Museums Card" promoted by the State Tourist Office
Free Entrance:
- State Museum from 22nd February 2009;
- People with serious handicap and accompayining people (a special form need
to be signed)
- Carta Giovane/ Card for young people (a special form need to be signed)
- Children under 6 years
In the neogothic style, this Romanesque building was
the work of architect Francesco Azzurri (1894) built over the foundations of
the original 'Parva Domus Comunis'. The building was recently reopened after
being restored by the architect Gae Aulenti.
Historic centre, Piazza della libertà - tel. 0549 883152
For further information
visit the official website >>
The Nucleo Uniformato della Guardia di Rocca (Uniformed
Guards of the Fortress) perform honour service at the Palazzo Pubblico in
Piazza della Libertà, and the 'changing of the guard' ceremony is performed
every hour on the half hour from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. during the summer
months or, more specifically from mid May through the end of September.
The Guardia di Rocca guard, was originally founded in 1754, and currently has
two departments: the Nucleo Uniformato (Uniformed Guards) and the Compagnia
d'Artiglieria (Artillery company).
The Nucleo Uniformato serves to keep public order and guards the Country's
borders, territory and its various institutional sites.
The Compagnia d'Artiglieria, on the other hand, serves for national ceremonies
and holidays.
The uniform worn by the Guards of the Fortress when on duty and during the
changing of the guard is quite suggestive with a dark green double-breasted
jacket decorated with red and white braiding, red trousers with a green stripe
and a cap (kepi) with red pom-pom and white spats. The ceremonial uniform also
has golden epaulets and a leather helmet with red and white ostrich feathers.
First fort built in the XI century and restored several
times. Some of the rooms were used as a prison. To the left of the entrance is
the Chapel of the Rocca, dedicated to Saint Barbara.
Historic Centre - tel. 0549 991369
For further information
visit the official website >>
Second fort. Dates back to the XIII century. It is
found on the high peak of Mount Titano. The inside houses the Museum of Arms
containing arms from the XIII to the XIX centuries.
Historic Centre, Salita alla Cesta - tel. 0549 991295
For further information
visit the official website >>
Third fort. Watchtower. This tower was extremely important during the war with the Malatesta. Although it can only be viewed from the outside, it provides a highly suggestive panorama.
Housed in the Palazzo Pergami, this museum holds
archaeological and artistic testimony of the history and legend of the
Republic of San Marino. The museum includes an archaeological section holding
findings that date from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages and a painting
gallery that houses paintings from the XIV-XIX centuries including works by
Guercino, C. Gennari, M. Loves, E. Sirani, P.Batoni.
Historical Centre, Piazza del Titano - tel. 0549 883835
For further information
visit the official website >>
Dates back to the XIV century. The loggia of the
cloister houses a Museum of Sacred Art and a Painting Gallery housing works
dating from 1400 to 1900
Historical Centre, Via Basilicius - tel. 0549 885132
For further information
visit the official website >>
The national collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
contains approximately 750 works, collected historically from the early XX
century to the present. It is divided by type of artistic expression: painting,
drawing, water colours, sculpture, photography.
The permanent collection is currently located in the Gallery in via Eugippo,
in the Historic Centre of San Marino. The site is currently under restoration.
For further information
visit the official website >>
The Centre for the Study of emigration - Museum of
Emigration, hosted in some rooms of the old Santa Chiara Monastery, conserves
the historical memory of the emigration of San Marino which is charted through
an extensive collection of short texts, images, original documents and objects.
Visitors can feel the special atmosphere and the real emotions lived by those
who emigrated from San Marino and can also reconstruct their family lives
through archive materials on computer files.
Old Town - Old Santa Chiara Monastery - Contrada Omerelli, 24
Opening Times: 10am-17pm
Phone: 0549 885171 - Free Admission.
E-mail:
emigrante@omniway.sm
www.museoemigrante.sm
A public body of the Department of Education, with the
purpose to create a cultural hub in the field of Natural Sciences, and to
contribute to the diffusion of naturalistic culture, gives the possibilty to
know natural environments, fauna, flora, geology and paleontology of San
Marino territory and not only. In addition to the 5 dioramas that faithfully
reproduce the most characteristic habitats of the territory, the display
includes a rich collection of European birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians,
fishes, invertebrates, minerals and fossils, an aqua-terrarium and a plastic
model that reproduces to the scale of 1:8000 the territory of the Republic of
San Marino. The Center within its didactic activity to support schools and to
divulge, provides scientific-naturalistic advices, and offers the following
proposals: guided tours to the display of the Museum; guided trips in the
natural environments; didactic laboratories and games; organization of public
events and meetings (multimedia projections, meetings with experts); library
consultation; The Museum is located in the historic center of Borgo Maggiore
150 meters away from the San Marino-Borgo Maggiore cableway station. It’s
reachable even from the historic center of San Marino through the cableway, on
foot, going down “Costa dell’Arnella” for a pleasant and suggestive walk along
districts and woods.
Via Valdes De Carli 21, Borgo Maggiore 47893 Repubblica di San Marino
Phone: (+378) 0549 - 883460 Fax (+378) 0549 - 883464
e mail:
centronaturalistico@omniway.sm
www.centronaturalistico.sm