Parma Trip Overview
Parma is a city to discover, the last of the Italian cities to be named CAPITAL OF CULTURE. This tour is the most complete and rich in monuments that can be done in a day of visiting the city. A full immersion of art treasures, anecdotes, legends, tales and immersions in the medieval world of the monks, and in the Renaissance world of the princes.
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Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Starts: Parma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Parma is a city to discover, the last of the Italian cities to be named CAPITAL OF CULTURE. This tour is the most complete and rich in monuments that can be done in a day of visiting the city. A full immersion of art treasures, anecdotes, legends, tales and immersions in the medieval world of the monks, and in the Renaissance world of the princes.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Camera di San Paolo, Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 43121, Parma Italy
Splendid rooms of the female convent, with Renaissance rooms frescoed by the painter Correggio
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Battistero di Parma, Piazza Duomo 7/a, 43121, Parma Italy
Visit of the exteriors of the absolute masterpiece of the Italian Romanesque / Gothic, a jewel that blinds for its beauty and richness of details. It is probably the most important late medieval baptistery in Ialia
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Cattedrale di Parma, P.zza Duomo, 43100, Parma Italy
Cathedral perfectly preserved in its Romanesque magnificence, with splendid chapels and Gothic frescoes, and the dome famous all over the world for Correggio’s fresco. Here is also the absolute masterpiece of the Romanesque sculptor Benedetto Antelami. In addition, the whole church is a concentrate of works of art and surprises,
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata (Madonna della Steccata), Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi, 43121, Parma Italy
Renaissance church with a central plan, containing an absolute masterpiece of late Renaissance art by the painter Parmigianino
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: National Gallery (Galleria Nazionale), Piazza della Pace Via della Pilotta 5, Parma Italy
Great monumental complex,
Original wooden library
National Gallery with first-level works of art including Leonardo Da Vinci, Parmigianino, Gaddi, Botticelli and Guercino
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Teatro Farnese, Palazzo Della Pilotta, 43121, Parma Italy
Great Baroque theater, partly still intact in its stucco decorations and wooden parts.
Detailed visit to all the rooms of the most important seventeenth-century theater in Italy
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Parma, Parma, Province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna
Library and Abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista, with important frescoes, cloisters
Duration: 30 minutes