The landlocked microstate of San Marino is one of the world’s smallest, yet it’s one of most beautiful countries, settled in the region of Emilia Romagna in Northern Italy. Being completely surrounded by Italy, the cuisine of San Marino is heavily influenced by it, especially by the neighboring regions of Emilia Romagna and Le Marche. The three fortresses at the top of the mountain give San Marino its best-known image of fairytale towers reaching skywards into the bluest of skies and linked by a winding path that runs the entire ridge of the mountain. It’s a wonderland!