Best places to visit in Parma, Italy

San Giovanni Evangelista (St. John the Evangelist Church)

  

At the back of Parma's cathedral, the convent church of San Giovanni Evangelista is a Renaissance constructing (1510) with a Baroque façade delivered a century later. In the dome are more frescoes painted by means of Correggio and his student Parmigianino in 1521-23. Forestall through the adjacent convent to see the Storica Farmacia di San Giovanni Evangelista, a fascinating old apothecary store, with a Renaissance interior wherein monks sell cough drops, creams, and different natural products.

Parco Ducale

 

The large Parco Ducale become once the grounds and gardens of the grand 16th-century Palazzo Ducale, the ducal palace. Today, it is a peaceful riverside park this is properly utilized by locals and a favourite vicinity for travelers to walk alongside the river to the Palazzo Ducale or sit down on benches and watch the arena go by way of. It's also a favorite vicinity for picnics (select up some of the area's famous cheese in one of the little shops).

Parma Vecchia

  

Across the Parma River from its compact middle lies the vintage metropolis, Parma Vecchia. To get there from Piazza Garibaldi, comply with Strada Mazzini west throughout the Ponte di Mezzo, in which you is probably capable of become aware of elements of the old Roman bridge in the underpass. Almost straight in advance, the surprisingly fashioned Baroque church of Santissima Annunziata changed into built in 1566 with a boldly designed dome. Different sights of hobby to tourists are the Romanesque church of Santa Croce, with desirable seventeenth-century frescoes. At Borgo Rodolfo Tanzi 13 is the residence wherein the well-known conductor Arturo Toscanini become born in 1867.

Baptistery

  

To the proper of the cathedral in Piazza del Duomo, the huge octagonal marble Baptistery changed into begun in the Romanesque style in 1196 with the aid of Benedetto Antelami, who finished the biblical reliefs carved at the doors. The building was sooner or later finished in Gothic fashion nearly a century later; it's far considered one of Italy's nice examples of the transition between these  very special patterns. Inner are colorful frescoes and greater thirteenth-century reliefs. Even the ones do not typically like spiritual artwork, need to admit that is an impressive constructing.

Teatro Farnese (Farnese Theater)

 

In the enormous Palazzo della Pilotta, the palace theater turned into built completely in timber by using a scholar of the great Italian architect Andrea Palladio. When it changed into built, in 1618-28, it become the biggest theater within the world, with 4,500 seats. It's miles concept to be the primary theater with a permanent proscenium arch. Nearly destroyed with the aid of international battle II bombing, it was rebuilt in its unique splendor and reopened in 1962. Beautiful in its extremely good simplicity, unpainted wood lines the entire theater, its surface unadorned with the aid of the gilding and stucco paintings discovered in so many wonderful opera homes.