San Marino Travel Guide

San Marino has no border control with Italy at all, no checkpoint, no passport stamp, nothing to mark the moment you cross from one country into the other beyond noticing the change in flags and license plates. Since it is reachable only by first entering Italy, standard Schengen visa rules govern the trip entirely, whatever applies to you for Italy applies the same way for San Marino, there is no separate San Marino visa process to think about. A small airport within San Marino's own territory does host regular charter flights, though this is not the way most visitors arrive.

Travelers looking for proof of the visit can get a souvenir stamp from the tourism office in the city center, which is treated as an official government stamp even though it carries no immigration function, a nice keepsake rather than anything border officials elsewhere would recognize. From the last quarter of 2026, ETIAS becomes a requirement for visa exempt travelers heading into any of the 30 participating European countries, and since reaching San Marino means entering Italy first, that requirement applies here too even though San Marino itself is outside Schengen.