Private Tour of Parma: City of Art and its Hidden Pearls

Highlights

• Parma Capital of Culture
• Historical and Artistic Immersion
• Comprehensive Private Tour

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Camera di San Paolo e Cella di Santa Caterina

   40min

   Splendid rooms of the female convent, with Renaissance rooms frescoed by the painter Correggio

2. 2

   Battistero di Parma

   20min

   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

3. 3

   Cattedrale di Parma

   40min

   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,

4. 4

   Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata (Madonna della Steccata)

   30min

   Renaissance church with a central plan, containing an absolute masterpiece of late Renaissance art by the painter Parmigianino

5. 5

   National Gallery (Galleria Nazionale)

   1h

   Great monumental complex, Original wooden library National Gallery with first-level works of art including Leonardo Da Vinci, Parmigianino, Gaddi, Botticelli and Guercino

6. 6

   Teatro Farnese

   30min

   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

7. 7

   Parma

   30min

   Library and Abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista, with important frescoes, cloisters

Before you go

Location