Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Parma, Italy
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Experience Parma in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in ParmaIndividual Sights in ParmaSight 1: Chiesa di San Benedetto
Santa Benedetto is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazzale San Benedetto Da Norcia in Parma, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The church and monastery are part of a high school, the Istituto Salesiano, run by the Salesian order.
Sight 2: Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato
San Francesco del Prato is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church, located on Piazzale San Francesco #4 in central Parma, Italy. In front stands the 15th-century Palazzo Cusani.
Sight 3: Oratorio Immacolata Concezione
The Oratory of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic place of worship located in Strada Pietro Del Prato 4 in Parma, in the province and diocese of Parma; the building stands at the back of the church of San Francesco del Prato.
Sight 4: Casa del Suono
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The Casa del Suono is a museum in Parma, dedicated to the history and evolution of instruments for reproducing and transmitting sounds.
Sight 5: Monumento a Ercole e Anteo
The monument to Hercules and Antaeus, also known as I du brasè, is a seventeenth-century copper monument, now located in the center of the courtyard of Palazzo Cusani, in Parma; a copy of it is located in a niche of the city hall building.
Sight 6: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità
The church of the Holy Trinity, known as the Old Trinity to distinguish it from the homonymous oratory of the Rossi, is a Catholic place of worship with Baroque forms, located in Borgo della Trinità 5 in Parma, in the province and diocese of Parma.
Sight 7: Chiesa di Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù
Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù, also known as the Chiesa della Trinità Nuova, is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Strada Garibaldi 28 in Parma, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. This building was once was the Oratory dei Trinità Rossi.
Sight 8: Castello dei Burattini - Museo Giordano Ferrari
The Puppet Castle is a museum in Parma where puppets, marionettes, and other props are exhibited.
Sight 9: Camera della Badessa
The Camera di San Paolo or Camera della Badessa is a room in the former Monastery of San Paolo, in Parma, northern Italy. It is painted with frescoes by Correggio in the vault (697x645 cm) and over the fireplace.
Sight 10: Monumento ai Caduti di tutte le guerre
The Monument to the Fallen consists of sculptures, reliefs and a plaque affixed in the 1960s to the 18th-century bell-tower built attached to the now deconsecrated church of San Ludovico (previously dedicated to San Paolo and serving the adjacent Convent of that name. The bell tower is found at the intersection of Strada Macedonio Melloni, Borgo del Parmigianino, and Strada Cavour in central Parma, Italy.
Sight 11: Pinacoteca Stuard
The Pinacoteca Stuard in Parma, housed since 2002 in a wing of the ancient Benedictine monastery of San Paolo, is named after the benefactor and collector Giuseppe Stuard (1790-1843), to whom we owe the first nucleus of the museum's art collections.
Sight 12: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Parma Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Parma, Emilia-Romagna (Italy), dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Parma. It is an important Italian Romanesque cathedral: the dome, in particular, is decorated by a highly influential illusionistic fresco by Renaissance painter Antonio da Correggio.
Sight 13: Antica Spezieria di San Giovanni
The Antica spezieria di San Giovanni is a former historic pharmacy, used as a museum, located in borgo Pipa 1/a in Parma, inside the abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista.
Sight 14: Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista
San Giovanni Evangelista is a Mannerist-style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazzale San Giovanni, located just behind the apse of the Parma Cathedral, in the historic center of Parma, northern Italy. The buildings surrounding the piazza were also part of a former Benedictine convent. The church is notable for its Correggio frescoes.
Sight 15: Museo Diocesano
The Diocesan Museum of Parma was inaugurated in March 2003, at the end of a long restoration that involved the Bishop's Palace, in the basement of which the exhibition itinerary is now located. The archaeological finds and works of art from the Cathedral, the Baptistery and the diocesan territory were thus arranged.
Sight 16: Battistero di Parma
The Baptistery of Parma is a religious edifice in Parma, northern Italy. Architecturally, the baptistery of Parma Cathedral marks a transition between the Romanesque and Gothic styles, and it is considered to be among the most important Medieval monuments in Europe.
Sight 17: Chiesa di Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located on Strada Cavour in central Parma, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.
Sight 18: Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata
The Shrine of Santa Maria della Steccata is a Greek-cross design Renaissance church in central Parma, Italy. The name derives from the fence in the church. A Nursing Madonna is enshrined within, crowned on 27 May 1601 by a Marian devotee, Fray Giacomo di Forli of the Capuchin order. Pope Benedict XVI raised the Marian sanctuary to the status of Basilica minor on 9 February 2008.
Sight 19: Museo Costantiniano della Steccata
The museum of the Constantinian Order of St. George, better known as the Constantinian Museum of the Steccata, is located in via Dante Alighieri 8/a in Parma, inside the basilica of Santa Maria della Steccata.
Sight 20: Teatro Regio
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Teatro Regio di Parma, originally constructed as the Nuovo Teatro Ducale, is an opera house and opera company in Parma, Italy.
Sight 21: Museo Glauco Lombardi
The Museo Lombardi is a museum displaying an eclectic collection of 19th-century art and cultural works from Parma. It is located in the Palazzo di Riserva on Strada Garibaldi #5 in central Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Sight 22: Monumento al Partigiano
The Monument to the partisan, dedicated to the partisan struggle, is located in Parma in Piazzale della Pace. It is the work of the sculptor Marino Mazzacurati and the architect Guglielmo Lusignoli.
Sight 23: Piazza della Pace
Piazzale della Pace is a public green area in the historic center of Parma, located along Strada Garibaldi next to the Palazzo della Pilotta.
Sight 24: Monumento a Giuseppe Verdi
The monument to Giuseppe Verdi is a granite and bronze work located in Piazzale della Pace in Parma.
Sight 25: Teatro Farnese
Teatro Farnese is a Renaissance theatre in the Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Italy. It was built in 1618 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti. The idea of creating this grand theater came from the Duke of Parma and Piacenza Ranuccio I Farnese. It was part of the complex of the Ducal Palace of Parma. The theatre was almost destroyed by an Allied air raid during World War II (1944). It was rebuilt and reopened in 1962.
Sight 26: Accademia di belle arti di Parma
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma is an artistic institution in the city of Parma, Italy. It is presently located in a wing of the Palazzo della Pilotta in the center of the city.
Sight 27: Galleria Nazionale
The Galleria nazionale di Parma is an art gallery in Parma, northern Italy.
Sight 28: Museo Bodoniano
The Bodoni Museum of Parma is a museum dedicated to Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), situated in the Palazzo della Pilotta building on the premises of the Palatina Library.
Sight 29: Museo Archeologico Nazionale
The National Archaeological Museum of Parma is located in Piazza della Pilotta in Parma, in the south-western wing of the Palazzo della Pilotta; Founded in 1760, it is one of the first archaeological museums to be built in Italy.
Sight 30: Resti del ponte romano
The Pons Lapidis, also known as the Roman Bridge or Theodoric's Bridge, is a bridge from the Roman era, the remains of which are partially visible in the underpass of Strada Mazzini in Parma, next to Piazza Ghiaia.
Sight 31: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
The Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, sometimes called a church, is a Baroque religious edifice in central Parma.
Sight 32: Palazzetto Eucherio Sanvitale
The Palazzetto Eucherio Sanvitale, also known as the Casino di Codiponte or Casino degli Umiliati, is located inside the Ducal Park of Parma.
Sight 33: Porta Santa Croce
The Porta Santa Croce is a Renaissance city gate that survived the destroyed city walls of Parma; it stands next to the square of the same name, at the end of Massimo D'Azeglio street in the Oltretorrente district.
Sight 34: Chiesa di Santa Croce
Santa Croce is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church, located on the piazza of the same name, along via Emilia in the quartiere of Oltretorrente of Parma, Region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Sight 35: Archivio di Stato
The State Archives of Parma is the peripheral office of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities which, by law, preserves the historical documentation produced by the public bodies of the province of Parma and any other archive or documentary collection of historical importance for voluntary deposit, temporary custody, donation or purchase.
Sight 36: Oratorio di Sant'Ilario
The Oratorio di Sant'Ilrico is a Baroque style, former-Roman Catholic oratory, that can be also described as a small church or independent-standing chapel, located at strada Massimo d'Azeglio #43, in the Oltretorrente quarter of Parma, Italy. The oratory is dedicated to the 4th-century anti-Arian Saint Hilary of Poitiers, one of the patrons of the city. The oratory is located within the Ospedale Vecchio with the entrance sandwiched among the porticoes of facing the strada. This hospital was initially founded in the 13th century by Rodolfo Tanzi.
Sight 37: Chiesa di San Giacomo
The church of San Giacomo is a Catholic place of worship with Baroque and neo-Romanesque forms, located in Piazzale San Giacomo 7, at the corner with Strada Massimo D'Azeglio, in Parma, in the province and diocese of Parma.
Sight 38: Monumento a Filippo Corridoni
Sight 39: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata
The Santissima Annunziata, also called the Basilica del Paradiso, is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church and convent located on Via Massimo D'Azeglio in Parma, Italy.
Sight 40: Chiesa di San Giuseppe
San Giuseppe is a Baroque church in Parma.
Sight 41: Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a Roman Catholic church located in the borgo Santa Caterina of the city of Parma, Italy
Sight 42: Chiesa di Ognissanti
The church of Ognissanti is found on Bixio street in Parma, Region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Sight 43: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Quartiere
Santa Maria del Quartiere is a Baroque-style church in the quarter of the Oltretorrente of the city of Parma, Italy.
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