San Marino; Sunday, 24 March, 2019

Another very filling breakfast and I then, after I’d packed and checked out I headed out into town and down to the Museo di Stato to have a look round.

The museum has a wide collection of materials focusing on the history of San Marino as well as religious art, geology and a small collection of artefacts from other parts of the world. A short distance away from the museum and on the same level of the city – so one of the few flat walks it’s possible to do – is the national modern art gallery which I had a look around as well.

Having taken in the museum and gallery I wandered back down to the Funivia and took the cable car down to the lower town of Borgo Maggiore to have a look around the town, and to take in the city from below.

After a little while wandering around I caught the cable car back up the mountain and then went in search of lunch – finding a very nice restaurant lower down the hill.

Filled up from lunch I headed a bit further down from the restaurant onto the Western walls of the city and spent some time wandering along the walls down to the cliff gate at the very edge of the city and then walking my way back up through the old town towards the San Francisco gate.

Next to the gate is a small chapel with a museum attached which I had a quick look around before it was time to head back to the hotel and collect my bags.

On arrival I had ended up having to go up several sets of steps, which with a heavy bag wasn’t great. Over the following couple of days I had now worked out how to get the whole way down just using the sloping roads, rather than having to negotiate steps, but it did mean that I took over 20 minutes to make it back down to the bus station and onto the bus back to Rimini.