Famous San Marino Dance group performs at Preda Christmas party.

Famous San Marino Dance group performs at Preda Christmas party.
22 December 2015
Preda News

The traditional dance group I Fanciullie La Corta De Olnano from the Independent republic of San Marino performed at the Preda Center for children last 22 December to the thunderous applause and excitement of the children and their parents numbering as many as 300 from the nearby community of Nagbaculao.

The occasion was the Annual Christmas Party and gift giving by Preda.The Group had participated in a cultural dance competition in Manila.

 

San Marino Ambassador Sylvie Bollini a previous visitor to Preda arranged the visit of the famous dance group to the Philippines and to Preda.
San Marino, the world’s fifth-smallest state, claims to be the world’s oldest surviving republic. According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD[1] when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, Today iot is a thriving Democracy having survived for over a thousand years .It is a popular destination for it beautiful scenery ,happy welcoming people and a long tradition.

 

The original government structure was composed of a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, which consisted of the heads of each family (as in the original Roman Senate, the Patres). In 1243, the positions of Captains Regent (Capitani Reggenti) were established to be the joint heads of state. The state’s earliest statutes date back to 1263. The Holy See confirmed the independence of San Marino in 1631.The state was recognized by Napoleon by the Treaty of Tolentino, in 1797 and by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1825 and 1853, new attempts to submit it to the Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it had offered a safe refuge to numerous supporters of unification in earlier years.

After the unification of the Kingdom of Italy a treaty in 1862 confirmed San Marino’s independence. It was revised in 1872.
Despite all this, the Germans and Allies clashed on San Marino’s soil in late September 1944 at the Battle of Monte Pulito; Allied troops occupied San Marino after that, but only stayed for two months before returning the Republic’s sovereignty.

After the war, San Marino became the first country in Western Europe to be ruled by a communist party (the San Marinese Communist Party, in coalition with the San Marinese Socialist Party) through democratic elections. The coalition lasted from 1945 to 1957, when the fatti di Rovereta occurred. This was the first time anywhere in the world, when a communist government was democratically elected into power.
Women gained voting rights in 1960. Having joined the Council of Europe as a full member in 1988, San Marino held the rotating chair of the organisation during the first half of 1990.
San Marino became a member of the United Nations in 1992. In 2002 it signed a treaty with the OECD, agreeing to greater transparency in banking and taxation matters to help combat tax evasion.
It is a highly respected nation with along history of democracy and upholding human right and child protection laws and policies and is the envy of many other nations .