The name San Marino is a corruption of the Latin, "Sine Mari" without the sea. It gets this name because in medieval times the peasants there were too poor to afford the annual charabanc trip to the nearby resort of Pesaro. Pesaro is sometimes know as Little Brighton because of it's burgeoning alternative-lifestyle population.
San Marino is the home and origin of the Garibaldi biscuit which is the king of biscuits for dunking into tea at half time. Giuseepe Baldi, a Franciscan monk discovered the receipe accidently dropped in some raisins into some dough in 1772 .
There is a National Garibaldi Festival takes place on Feb 28th where the San Marino bakers compete for the best baker Garibaldi prize, this year presented by the outgoing Pope BenedictXVI as his last official function before announcing his resignation.
San Marino was formed by the romans as a place to send all those that had sinned against them, making them exiles. The name was made from an anagram of "A roman sin".
The tratatorri at the end of the high st in San Marino City is an over rated tourist trap. Try the little place just down the side street called the Angel Cafe. Owned by the same family who run the Cafe with the same name in Horseferry road much used by cabbies.
San Marino is a mountain near Rimini. As it is a mountain all their major sporting events take place elsewhere, except skiing, which only happens if there's enough snow. The Grand Prix takes place in Fulham and the football is actually in a warehouse in Arizona. There never is enough snow so San Marino are ranked slightly below Jamaica in the world downhill ski rankings
Mike Marino was a wrestler in the 1970s, as was his friend Mal Sanders. Sanders nickname was the shortened version of his surname, 'San'. When they first met, a mutual acquaintance did the introductions, muttering the immortal words, "Marino, San : San, Marino". Sadly, Mike didn't prove to be quite so immortal. He died in 1981 of a convulsive attack on the side of the M20. His passenger in the car that day? Mal Sanders. And that is absolutely true.
John Wayne born in Iowa and Marconi born in Bologna, Eddies mum a possibility i guess.....Dont get the San Marino connection bit
Quite right in Winterset, Madison County to be precise (as in the Bridges book/movie) and quite close to the future birthplace of Capt James T Kirk at Riverside. I've visited both - how sad is that?
But another thing you won't know about San Marino is I lost my wallet there when I was 11 with all my holiday spending money in it. Luckily, a shopkeeper found it and gave it back to me.
San Marino is the world leader in the sport of "Butt Flicking"
This simple sport involves a metal bucket half filled with sand placed in the Main Square, and compeititors must flick fag ends into it, whilst standing at least 10 yards away. Points are scored for distance, amount of fag ends and what part of the body the flick originated from.
Gianluigi "Rocket Toes" Rossi is the reigning champion, using L&M Reds
San Marino is the world leader in the sport of "Butt Flicking"
This simple sport involves a metal bucket half filled with sand placed in the Main Square, and compeititors must flick fag ends into it, whilst standing at least 10 yards away. Points are scored for distance, amount of fag ends and what part of the body the flick originated from.
Gianluigi "Rocket Toes" Rossi is the reigning champion, using L&M Reds
Love this :-)
For seven years running during the 1980s, Italian media magnate and sometimes-premier Slivio Berlusconi was the holder of San Marino All Comers Butt Flicking title until it came to light that he had transgressed rules on the age of the butts which may be flicked. An ongoing campaign by women's groups have successfully prevented the the oversexed tycoon from defending his title for many years, but even at the age of 76 he still flicks butts all over Italy.
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There is a National Garibaldi Festival takes place on Feb 28th where the San Marino bakers compete for the best baker Garibaldi prize, this year presented by the outgoing Pope BenedictXVI as his last official function before announcing his resignation.
There never is enough snow so San Marino are ranked slightly below Jamaica in the world downhill ski rankings
But another thing you won't know about San Marino is I lost my wallet there when I was 11 with all my holiday spending money in it. Luckily, a shopkeeper found it and gave it back to me.
This simple sport involves a metal bucket half filled with sand placed in the Main Square, and compeititors must flick fag ends into it, whilst standing at least 10 yards away. Points are scored for distance, amount of fag ends and what part of the body the flick originated from.
Gianluigi "Rocket Toes" Rossi is the reigning champion, using L&M Reds
For seven years running during the 1980s, Italian media magnate and sometimes-premier Slivio Berlusconi was the holder of San Marino All Comers Butt Flicking title until it came to light that he had transgressed rules on the age of the butts which may be flicked. An ongoing campaign by women's groups have successfully prevented the the oversexed tycoon from defending his title for many years, but even at the age of 76 he still flicks butts all over Italy.