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hmmm.....

Malta is an Island nation in the Mediterranean. It is south of Sicily. You are getting rather warm, though I don't know about right next to the Vatican.

Just to revisit, we are looking for the name of a landlocked European country that is completely within another country, and it is not the Vatican.

Here is an interesting little tidbit that I did not know. This country was founded in 301 AD, making it the world's oldest sovereign state, or at least the world's oldest republic. Another point of interest is that until 1463, its land area consisted of a single mountain.

Scrap and Armin are getting warm. Not San Remo

OK, the answer to the question is San Marino, which is entirely contained within the country of Italy. Hre is a Wiki excerpt...

San Marino is the oldest sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, having been founded on 3 September 301 by Marinus of Rab, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian. The Constitution of San Marino, enacted in 1600, is the world's oldest constitution still in effect.[1]