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What To Know About Visiting Seborga, A Destination Unlike Any Other In Italy
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Italy may be best known for its epochal cities and dazzling seaside havens, but the country’s hilltop towns and borghi—medieval throwbacks found from the Alpine north to Sicily—also draw throngs of visitors—more than three million trek to San Gimignano alone each year. While the most popular hilltops are in Tuscany and Umbria, you’ll find the most unusual one, Seborga, on the western Italian Riviera, not far from the French border. Yes, Seborga has all the bells and whistles you might expect of an Italian hill town—a palace fortress, cobblestone alleys barely an arm span in width, knock-out views and hyper-local rustic cuisine, but in addition it has a ceremonial head of state who isan elected prince or princess, its own currency, stamps, and national anthem. Seborga’s recent history, unlike that of any other village in Italy, centers on a decades-long quest to become a stand-alone principality, like Monaco, which on clear days, you can see from one of its lookouts.
“I obviously hope to accomplish independence for Seborga, which I admit is very complex,” ays Nina Menegetto, elected Princess in 2019 for a seven-year term. “[It] will take a lot of time, but nothing is impossible, so we keep working on it. All the citizens who voted for me believe in this cause, so I do not want to let them down. Sooner or later our dream might come true.”
Like many places in Italy, Seborga has a complicated past. Rulers changed, treaties were negotiated, paper trails became hard to follow. Once owned by the counts of Ventimiglia, Seborga was donated to Benedictine monks based on the Lérin Islands (off the coast of Cannes) and became an “Imperial Principality” in the Holy Roman Empire during the 11th century. In 1729 the King of Sardinia wanted to buy Seborga from the monks, but the legal documents to certify new ownership were apparently not registered properly. Later, when the Kingdom of Sardinia became the Kingdom of Italy, the principality, according to one line of reasoning, didn’t technically go along for the ride. The same for when Italy became a republic in 1946.
Less than two decades later, Giorgio Carbone, a flower entrepreneur, having discovered the omission through research in the Vatican’s archives, decided to lobby for Seborgan independence, putting forth the idea to the town’s residents, who voted their approval, and elected Carbone prince for life in 1963. Carbone oversaw the creation of a constitution, currency and stamps for the principality.
While Seborgans enthusiastically welcomed a revival of their status as a principality, the powers that be—officials in Rome, were less sanguine. The Italian government recognizes Seborga today only as a comune of Imperia.
“We are currently ruled by Italy, so we
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