Villatent at Centro Vacanze San Marino

Villatent at Centro Vacanze San Marino is just a 10-minute drive from the old city of San Marino, a UNESCO-listed medieval fortress town with impressive museums, cafés, castle towers and a scenic cable car that you can ride to nearby Borgo Maggiore. Another benefit of coming here? Any souvenirs you pick up for friends and will be duty-free. Getaways to the sandy beaches of the Adriatic are also on the cards here – within 25 minutes of setting off from San Marino you can expect to be in the port city of Rimini, famed for its Roman and Renaissance monuments and for being the birthplace of film director Federico Fellini. Also unlikely to go amiss are the town's several waterparks and a long stretch of sandy Mediterranean beach. When not surveying the scenery from San Marino's walls or sunning yourself down at the coast, make tracks southwards to the Onferno caves (30 minutes) or Urbino (an hour) for visits to Raphael's birthplace, the amazing Albornoz Fortress or the city's university-run botanical gardens.