San Marino National Anthem

San Marino's anthem has no official words. Constitutional Law no. 2 of 26 September 2025 gave the piece its name, "Terra di Libertà", but the same article states that the anthem's textual, technical and musical aspects are to be settled by a separate ordinary law, and left the question open.

There is a text that Sammarinese schoolchildren learn, but it was not written for the anthem. It is the closing sentence of the speech Giosuè Carducci, later the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, gave at the inauguration of the Palazzo Pubblico on 30 September 1894, the day the anthem was first played; in the 1960s the choirmaster Cesare Franchini Tassini fitted it to the melody. It is sometimes sung, but it has never been officially adopted, and at national holidays and official ceremonies the anthem is played by the Military Band.

The bill that would finally give the anthem words had its first reading in the Grand and General Council in April 2026. It does not simply ratify Carducci. It proposes a shorter, revised text that drops the salute to the glory of Italy and adds lines calling liberty a gift of the Republic's founding saint. The text drew objections in the chamber: one member found it far more condensed than the version taught in schools, another argued that crediting the saint put legend before the country's real history, in which the Sammarinese won and defended their own freedom. A member of the majority defended the reference to the saint and found dropping the mention of Italy understandable.