Tourism in San Marino contributes over 2.2% of San Marino

San Marino

San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino , is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino...

's GDP

Gross domestic product

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, with approximately 2 million tourists

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...

 visiting in 2009.

Most tourists who visit San Marino are Italian

Italy

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, usually consisting of people who come to spend holidays in the Romagna riviera and decide to spend a half-day or at most a night in the country. Even though there are only a small amount of actual non-Italian foreigners who visit the country, they still are vital to the Sammarinese economy.

Visitor attractions

The main tourist attractions in the most popular destination in the country, the City of San Marino, and the rest of the nation are:

• The Three Towers of San Marino
  The Three Towers of San Marino
  The Three Towers of San Marino are a group of towers located in the small European country of San Marino. Located on the three peaks of Monte Titano in the capital, also called San Marino, they are depicted on both the national flag and coat of arms...
  
   (The First Guita Tower, The Second Cesta Tower, and the Third Montale Tower)
• The Cathedral of San Marino
• The medieval Palazzo Pubblico
  Palazzo Pubblico (San Marino)
  The Palazzo Pubblico is the town hall of the City of San Marino as well as its official Government Building. The building, where official State ceremonies take place, is the seat of the Republic's main institutional and administrative bodies: the Captains Regent, the Grand and General Council, the...
  
  
• The Piazza della Libertà, including the Statua della Libertà
• The Museo di stato di San Marino, or the State Museum of San Marino
• The Museo San Francesco
• The small medieval alleyways, shop-lined streets, scenic terraces and little churches all dispersed around the city and the country.