Boom of tourists to museums and monuments of San Marino during the summer season
The circuit of museums and monuments of the Republic of San Marino closed the tourist season in September with over 186,000 paying visits, after a start of the year made almost nil by the conditions imposed by the health emergency, in addition to about nine thousand visits made by citizens of San Marino and other holders of free tickets.
“The balance is more than satisfactory – underlines the Titano Culture and Tourism Department – also thanks to a new and simplified ticket purchase and booking system, now also available online, and to the commitment made in the initiatives of temporary exhibitions and the opening of the new Museum of Stamps and Money, which hosted more than 5,100 paying visitors from 8 July to 30 September. Appreciate the temporary exhibitions activated during the season, from the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean to the exhibition ‘Foco put … Readings, fragments, drawings and Dante memorabilia in San Marino’, created by the Cultural Institutes to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, at the exhibition ‘At nightfall. Lucerne of the State Museum of San Marino ‘, inaugurated on 27 August. A prospect of revision of the entire San Marino museum circuit is announced which will see, in 2022, a renewal of the exhibition spaces of other collections of the State, starting with the Museum of Ancient Weapons, housed inside the Second Tower, soon closed to the public. for the start of the works.