Titano

At the top floor of the Grand Hotel San Marino – sister hotel – at a distance of 200 meters – you will find the Centro Maurice Mességué. Our Beauty Farm is run by a highly educated staff of medical personnel and beauticians. The equipment used is of the most advanced in the field of beauty farm. With its indoor bar the hotel offers the possibility to our Guests to have a seat and relax by readi... more

At the top floor of the Grand Hotel San Marino – sister hotel – at a distance of 200 meters – you will find the Centro Maurice Mességué. Our Beauty Farm is run by a highly educated staff of medical personnel and beauticians. The equipment used is of the most advanced in the field of beauty farm. With its indoor bar the hotel offers the possibility to our Guests to have a seat and relax by reading a book while drinking one of our aperitifs. Our Tea Room still today is remembered as “Charlie’s Tea Shop”, place where in the 50’s people used to drink tea at five o’clock. The outside terrace facing Garibaldi square, in summer-time is open to the public and to our Guests. There are tables where our Staff serves light dishes made by our Chef. THE HOTEL WILL BE CLOSED FROM 12/10/2010 TO 30/12/2010 DUE TO MAINTENANCE WORK. From the crest of Monte Titano, the peak at the hearth of the world's oldest republic, the view stretches west over folded mountain ranges to the borders of the Tuscany; east over Romagna's coastal plain to the Adriatic; north and south the Apennines, Italy's spine, stretch out of sight. The great castle that for centuries guarded the liberty of this tiny land tower around you, and below the steep cobbled streets of its capital wind away, ending at cliffside ramparts. Further below still, level after level of honeyed stone houses and church towers descends to farmland dotted with tiny villages, each one clustered around its central fortress. Traditionally, San Marinowas founded in 301 AD by the country's eponymous patron saint, an exile from Dalmatia long before the Croats arrived there. What is certainly true is that for over a thousand years, as far back as the historical record stretches, the Sammarinese have been a free, independent community. Never in history has this country been ruled by a king, or a duke, or a lord, but always by its own free citizens. The hearth of the civil governement of San Marino is the Palazzo Pubblico, a white stone tower rearing over the cliffs of Monte Titano. Soldiers in ornate, brightly - coloured uniforms guard the massive doors od the Palazzo. On feast days the heads of the state, the two Captains Regent of the country, lead the members of the Congress of State and the Great and General Council, the tiny republic's Cabinet and Parliament, in solemn procession to the Basalica of San Marino to give thanls for the continued preservation of the land's ancient liberties.

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