Spain vs San Marino

Spain

San Marino

Spain

• 1. At Spanish sporting events, fans often hum or chant 'lo lo lo' along with the music to fill the silence where lyrics would be.
• 2. In 1770 King Charles III declared the Marcha Granadera the March of Honour, to be played at public ceremonies attended by the royal family; Spaniards soon came to regard it as their national anthem, and its popular name, the Royal March, comes from that royal use.
• 3. In 1997 the Spanish State bought the rights to Bartolomé Pérez Casas's 1908 harmonisation of the anthem, paying the rights holders 130 million pesetas plus a percentage of future income.
• 4. Royal Decree 1560/1997 fixes the official score in B-flat major: the full version lasts 52 seconds and the short version 27.

San Marino

• 1. The melody comes from a tenth-century chorale that Federico Consolo found in a monastic breviary in Florence's Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.
• 2. For 131 years the anthem had no title of its own. It was known simply as the Inno Nazionale della Repubblica, the National Anthem of the Republic, until Constitutional Law no. 2 of 26 September 2025 titled it "Terra di Libertà".
• 3. That law placed the anthem alongside the flag and the coat of arms in article 2-bis of the 1974 Declaration of the Rights of Citizens, but expressly left its text to a separate ordinary law.
• 4. The words taught in San Marino's schools were not written for the anthem. They adapt the closing sentence of the speech Giosuè Carducci, later Italy's first Nobel laureate in literature, gave at the inauguration of the Palazzo Pubblico on 30 September 1894, the day the anthem was first played. They have never been adopted, and the bill debated in 2026 proposes a revised version that drops the reference to the glory of Italy.