Topography Lesson
Geography, I was good at it in school but somehow I missed
San Marino.
I vaguely remember a movie with some lady star of yore
making
a film about the place, maybe I have got it wrong and it was
Monaco,
which has a royal
house with princesses and a prince or two?
San Marino is a republic one of the oldest around and that
is why it is
unknown. What, no princesses, no romantic castles or a mad
king?
Sorry no. Just dry republicans, banks and a vinery and wild
boars which
is of no interest to popular ladies´ magazines like
“Halloo”.
In Serravalle, near the Apennine Alps; there is a butcher who
specialises
in cured ham which has some claim to fame, and in San
Marino,
the capitol city, there is a good restaurant. Humiliation,
going through
life not knowing about this tiny republic its history and
coinage; my shame
is total. Should you
go there do not drive too fast, because before you
know it you are back in Italy, spaghetti Bolognese and
smelly toilettes .
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