Serravalle (

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: ''Saravâl'') is one of the nine of

San Marino San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino, is a landlocked country in Southern Europe, completely surrounded by Italy. Located on the northeastern slopes of the Apennine Mountains, it is the larger of two European microstates, microsta ...

. It has a population of 10,878 inhabitants (of whom 2,000 are of foreign origin) and an area of 10.53 km² (4 sq. mi.). It is both the most populated and densely populated municipality in San Marino, and contains its largest settlement ( Dogana). Serravalle is located on the edge of the Apennine Mountains.

Geography

The town borders on Sammarinese municipalities of

Domagnano Domagnano (Romagnol: ''Munt Dmagnên'') is one of the nine Municipalities of San Marino, castelli of San Marino. It occupies an area of . As of 2023, it had a population of 3,589 inhabitants. It is the fourth largest castello by land area and po ...

and

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and the Italian municipalities

Verucchio Verucchio () is a ''comune ''in the province of Rimini, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It has a population of about 9,300 and is from Rimini, on a spur overlooking the valley of the Marecchia river. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia (" ...

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and Coriano. Serravalle counts a surrounding quarter named ''Galazzano'', where the

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and an industrial area are located. Serravalle has San Marino's northernmost and lowest elevated points. The outer edge of Serravalle is about from central Rimini and the

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. Serravalle recorded a temperature of on 3 and 9 August 2017, which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in San Marino. Serravalle contains eight : Cà Ragni, Cinque Vie, Dogana, Falciano, Lesignano, Ponte Mellini, Rovereta, and

Valgiurata Valgiurata (), also known as Le Tane, is a ''List of curazie in San Marino, curazia'' of San Marino. It belongs to the municipality of Serravalle (San Marino), Serravalle. History The name, literary meaning oath valley, derives from a popular ...

History

First mentioned in a 962 document, in medieval times this town was called Castrum Olnani (later Olnano), meaning "the village of the elm trees". Serravalle attached to San Marino in 1463, during the last territorial expansion of the Republic. In the Rimini earthquake on 16 August 1916, several houses in Serravalle collapsed. Two houses were damaged in the earlier earthquake on 17 May 1916.

Points of interest

* Chiesa di Sant Andrea (

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), built in 1824 by

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, not a stadium built to house the

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, but rather to house local San Marino football games *

Stadio di Baseball di Serravalle The Stadio di Baseball di Serravalle is a baseball stadium in Serravalle, San Marino. The stadium has a capacity of 1,500. See also *Stadio Olimpico Stadio Olimpico (; ), colloquially known as l'Olimpico (The Olympic), is an Italian mul ...

, home ballpark for the

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Baseball Club, which participates in the

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* SM Hub (a.k.a. World Trade Center), in Dogana curazia, tallest building in San Marino at 129.5 ft (39.47 m)

International relations

Serravalle is twinned with: *

Chiusi della Verna Chiusi della Verna is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence and about north of Arezzo. It is in the Casentino traditional region. Chiusi della Verna borders the foll ...

, Italy (1954) *

Huangshan Huangshan ( zh, s=黄山),Bernstein, pp. 125–127. literally meaning the Yellow Mountain(s), is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. It was originally called "Yishan", and it was renamed because of a legend that Em ...

, China (1999) *

Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; ; ) or Zante (, , ; ; from the Venetian language, Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands, with an are ...

, Greece (2014) *

Sulmona Sulmona (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of L'Aquila, in the Italy, Italian region of Abruzzo. It is located in the Valle Peligna, a plain once occupied by a lake that disappeared in prehistoric times. In the ancient era, it was ...

, Italy (2017) *

Tolentino Tolentino ( Maceratese: ''Tulindì'') is a town and ''comune'' of about 19,000 inhabitants, in the province of Macerata in the Marche region of central Italy. It is located in the middle of the valley of the Chienti. History Signs of the firs ...

, Italy (2020)

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