Photograph from Alice Rohe 

 A GATEWAY IN THE ANCIENT WALES OE SAN MARINO: THE ROAD EEADS TO THE 



QUARRIES IN WHICH THE republic's Founder eaborEd 



Few places on earth have retained their medieval atmosphere as effectually as San Ma- 

 rino, and yet even here the sign of progress is in evidence. Note the electric light conspicu- 

 ous in the arch of the Porta Delia Fratta, beneath whose shadow the women of the little 

 Republic come to do their weekly washing. 



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