San Filippo Neri Antique Pharmacy
In the heart of Parma, a stone’s throw from the crowded streets of the center, there is a place still little known but of great charm, where time seems to stand still, the San Filippo Neri Antique Pharmacy…
Parma the city of Perfume
With its over 200 years of expertise and entrepreneurial skills, Parma is globally recognised as a reference point in perfumery and has created over time a successful supply chain of companies which produce not only fragrances, but also glassware…
The San Filippo Neri Antique Pharmacy and the Jesuit area in Parma
An evocative guided tour to discover the San Filippo Neri Antique Pharmacy, the Oratory of San Tiburzio and the Jesuit area in the heart of Parma. An unusual journey through care and study in the ancient capital of the Duchy…
The Franciscan Convent and the Church of SS. Annunziata in Parma
The Church of SS. Annunziata represent the Cathedral of the Oltretorrente district to the people of Parma. Crossing the Ponte di Mezzo, its majestic bulk which embraces the entire popular district of the city suddenly…
THE TWO CITIES, A JOURNEY INTO NINETEENTH CENTURY PARMA
In the Nineteenth Century Parma was divided in two by the homonymous stream both geographically and socially. Not all the bourgeois lived on one side, nor did all the commoners live on the other, but these two areas of the city remained far apart…
Parma city of water
Parma city of water is an unusual tour to discover the city and the history of its water: surface water to be conveyed in canals, underground water to be gushed in abundant jets, water that has fed scenic fountains, neighborhood fountains, mural masks…
CSAC – The Valserena Abbey
The Valserena Abbey, traditionally identified as the Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma,” hosts the CSAC, Study Centre and Archives of the University of Parma, an archive-museum, which is also a research center, which collects 12 million works, original materials of visual communication, of artistic research and Italian design…
FRANCO MARIA RICCI’S MASONE LABYRINTH
The largest labyrinth in the world , extending over 80.000 sq meters, was created in Fontanellato, Parma, from an idea of the publisher, designer, art collector and bibliophile Franco Maria Ricci, and a promise…
FIDENZA
Important point of contact between the Via Emilia and the Romea road, the town of Fidenza, known as Borgo San Donnino from the Middle Ages until 1927, was crossed by an endless crowd of pilgrims directed to Rome …
Via Francigena
To move along the Via Francigena today means rediscovering the slow path of man’s steps in ancient time and understanding the many believers who from the origins of Christianity have searched for the tombs of saints…
The Abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba
Around 1135 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, helped by monks who had followed him from France, reclaimed a marshland in order to erect the Abbey. The legend says that a white dove, twirling before the monks, dropped straws outlining the perimeter of the complex, and due to this the Abbey…
OLTRETORRENTE – ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
The “Oltretorrente” has always been the most popular and typical suburb of Parma. Hamlet connected to the town by an old stone bridge since Roman times, over the centuries this area was taken up by hospitals, military camps, convents and people…
Bodoni Museum
Typographer of the Princes and Prince of typographers, as he has often been defined, Giambattista Bodoni was able to introduce the neoclassical elegance and balance in the art of the printing books…
PARMA AND MARIE LOUISE OF AUSTRIA
Parma, the petite capitale, still bears the traces of one of its most illustrious characters, Marie Louise of Austria, who with her arrival in 1816 marked forever the history of the town. Enlightened sovereign, Maria Luigia laudably ruled the dukedom…
Magnani Rocca Foundation
In the beautiful setting of a centuries-old English park, populated by animals and dozens of species of plants and shrubs, is the Villa of the Masterpieces, seat of the Magnani Rocca Foundation…
Salsomaggiore Terme
Surrounded by rolling green hills, Salsomaggiore Terme is located between the provinces of Parma and Piacenza, in the heart of Northern Italy and the Po Valley. The visit to the spa town, in exquisite Liberty-Deco style, starts from the Terme Berzieri, among the…
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