The cablecar system transports 500,000 passengers yearly across approximately 21,000 trips.[1][23] It was inaugurated on 1 August 1959.[23][24][25][26] In 1995 and 1996, it was modernised with double load-bearing cables built by Doppelmayr Italia,[27][24] and further renovated in spring 2017.[22][24]
START Romagna SpA operates several routes near San Marino's borders, but not within Sammarinese territory:
Route 7 terminates near the border at Rovereta, and runs to Rimini's port via the SS72 state road, Cerasolo, a frazione of Coriano, and Rimini's city centre.[28]
Route 16 runs between the border at Dogana and the village of Santa Cristina.[29]
Route 160 serves Torello, across the border from Gualdicciolo, and runs between Rimini (through Verucchio) and Novafeltria.[30]
Rimini and San Marino are connected by the coach companies Bonelli and Benedettini, which provide several services per day throughout the year.[3] In the City of San Marino, the coaches depart from the central bus stop in Piazzale Marino Calcigni,[3][31] then stop in Borgo Maggiore, Domagnano, Serravalle, Dogana, and Cerasolo, before reaching Rimini's Arch of Augustus and railway station.[3] The coaches complete the route in approximately fifty minutes.[3]
San Marino first expressed an interest in entering the management of Fellini Airport in the early 1980s.[4] Since then, the governments of San Marino and Italy have signed several bilateral agreements concerning San Marino's access to the airport.[4][5][6] As a result of these accords, all air carriers recognised by San Marino have been able to fly to Fellini Airport,[4] the Sammarinese government has been able to decide commercial routes,[32][33] Sammarinese companies have been able to operate in Italian airports without restrictions,[4] and the Sammarinese government has been able to carry out customs operations at Fellini Airport in agreement with the Italian authorities.[6]
In 2002, the Sammarinese government acquired a 3% stake in Fellini Airport's management company, Aeradria.[34] The airport was officially named Rimini-San Marino Airport.[33] In June 2018, the subsequent management company, Airiminum, repainted the terminal sign to read Aeroporto Internazionale di Rimini e San Marino (Rimini and San Marino International Airport), replacing the previous Aeroporto Internazionale Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini International Airport).[35]
The most significant agreement, ratified on 16 September 2013, provided San Marino a forty-year concession over some areas of Fellini Airport.[5][36][37] The areas were expected to host a private terminal, with a customs border allowing goods destined for San Marino not to pass through Italian customs.[37] As of August 2023, Sammarinese authorities still have no presence at the airport.[36]
Torraccia Airfieldedit
Torraccia Airfield is San Marino's only aviation facility on its territory. It is a small general aviationaerodrome in Torraccia, a village east of the castello of Domagnano, less than 200 metres (660 feet) from the Italian border.[7] Torraccia's only grassrunway was first used in 1981, but the airfield's structure was opened in 1985.[8][10] In July 2012, the runway was extended to 650 metres (2,130 feet).[7]
The airfield is owned and operated by Aeroclub San Marino,[7][8][9] a flying club with approximately 100 members.[10] In the summer, between ten and fifteen planes typically land at the airfield per day.[8][38] The airfield hosts a flight school, recreational flights and sports, and some tourist flights in small aircraft.[7][9][10]
Borgo Maggiore heliportedit
On 3 September 1950, a heliport next to Borgo Maggiore's cablecar terminus inaugurated its maiden postal flight from Trieste, followed by a second postal flight to Riccione for the International Stamp Fair the following day. On 16 October 1958, the heliport welcomed a helicopter bringing the polio vaccine from Aviano Air Base.[26]
On 24 July 1959, a statue of Our Lady of Fátima was flown to Borgo Maggiore aboard a helicopter from Forlì; the statue was used for the aerial cablecar's maiden journey.[26] On 30 June 1959, a helicopter line running between the Borgo Maggiore heliport and a heliport by Rimini's port was inaugurated.[13][14][26] Operated by Compagnia Italiana Elicotteri, the service ran several times per day,[13][14] using a fleet of four-seater Bell 47J Rangers and a three-seater Agusta-Bell AB-47G,[13][14][26] which were serviced at Rimini's airport.[14] In 1964, the line was extended to San Leo.[13][14] Tickets would cost up to 12,500 lire,[13] including the cablecar to the City of San Marino and a shuttle to the Leonine fortress. The service would take fifteen minutes to reach Rimini and ten minutes to reach San Leo. The service closed in 1969,[13][14] and the heliport has been replaced by a parking lot.[39][40]
In 2012, an 800-metre (1⁄2-mile) section was reopened as a heritage railway in the City of San Marino, running between Piazzale della Stazione and near Via Napoleone.[44] The restored section comprises the original railway's final horseshoe turn through the 502-metre (1,647-foot) Montale tunnel.[45][46]
Despite its short operational history, the Rimini–San Marino railway retains an important place in Sammarinese culture and history,[12] and has featured on Sammarinese postal stamps.[47][48][49][50] Both the Sammarinese and Italian governments have expressed interest in reopening the line.[44][51][52][53][54]
Between 1921 and 1960, San Marino was also served by a station on the Rimini–Novafeltria railway [it] in Torello, on the other side of the international border from Gualdicciolo in San Marino's west.[55] This provided San Marino its first railway station, albeit located in Italian territory.[56][57]
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