Parma: Discover the City of Art and Music with Digital Audio Guides

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Itinerary

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   Stop 1

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   Initially built around 1580, under the domination of the Farnese family, Palazzo della Pilotta takes its name from the ancient game played by Spanish soldiers in the Guazzatoio courtyard, namely "pelota". It was initially conceived as a set of buildings to support the Farnese court and the Ducal Palace. Inside the complex there are the National Gallery, the Farnese Theatre, the Palatine Library, the Bodonian Museum and the national archaeological museum.

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   Camera di San Paolo e Cella di Santa Caterina

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   Inside the former monastery of San Paolo there is a small treasure, which remained forgotten for a long time. This is the so-called Chamber of the Abbess, or Chamber of St. Paul.

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   Pinacoteca G Stuard

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   The original nucleus of works dates back to 1792, but it was in 1997 that the National Art Gallery underwent a profound renovation, to the point of becoming a modern exhibition space.

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   Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato

   2min

   The church of San Francesco del Prato boasts a very particular past. Built in Gothic style in the 13th century, it soon became one of the most important churches in the city. What you can admire today, however, is not the appearance that the church maintained for a long time...

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   Monastero di San Giovanni Evangelista

   3min

   Another example of Correggio's great art in Parma is the Abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista, part of a larger complex that also includes the monastery and the ancient apothecary.

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   Stop 6

   3min

   The ancient cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta stands in the area of a previous early Christian basilica and a subsequent cathedral built in the 9th century and destroyed by fire around the year 1058.

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   Battistero di Parma

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   If the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta contains the first known work of the great sculptor Benedetto Antelami, namely the high relief with the Deposition from the Cross, which I invite you to visit, the baptistery is certainly his most visible work.

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   Museo Glauco Lombardi

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   The Glauco Lombardi museum is the ideal place for those who want to delve deeper into the rich historical and artistic heritage of Parma between the 18th and 19th centuries.

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