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It is the result of an interesting urban regeneration programme, designed by Renzo Piano, for the area previously occupied by the Barilla and Eridania industrial plants. This “new city space” is dedicated to entertainment and free time. It offers the Paganini Auditorium, a multiplex cinema, a shopping mall, a hotel, the Barilla Historical Archive, the “Barilla Academy” school of cookery, a residential area, a large car park and a dozen new roads and squares. ... |
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The display of fountains in the middle of the Barriera Repubblica roundabout is part of a project to improve both the appearance and practical functioning of the city which has been carried out over the past two or three years. Barriera Repubblica is now the best access point for Parma city centre, thanks also to the presence of the large new car park built at the Barilla Center. ... |
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The Bodoni Museum, housed within the premises of the Palatine Library, was inaugurated on 17 November 1963 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of G. B. Bodoni (1740-1813). It was established to keep and conserve the collection of tools and equipment and other items belonging to Bodoni’s printing office. It includes the four original neoclassical-style cupboards which belonged to Bodoni and where he kept his boxes of dies and sets of stencils. ... |
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Parma’s twelfth-century cathedral is one of the masterpieces of the Romanesque in Italy. The elegant brick campanile surmounted by a golden angel dates from the thirteenth century. A beautiful porch supported by lions stands out from the hut-shaped façade ornamented with little galleries. Not to be missed inside are Antelami’s “Descent from the Cross” (1178) and in the dome Correggio’s fresco of the “Assumption of the Virgin” (1526-1530).
Antelami’s masterpiece, however, is the octagonal Baptistery begun in 1196. The exterior sculptures, mostly the work of Antelami himself, can be admired on the three great portals of the Virgin, the Last Ju ... |
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The Ducal garden was planned around 1560 by Duke Ottavio Farnese, who created a country house park with a great variety of trees and a large number of citrus shrubs in earthenware pots. The ornamental lake was a later addition. It was subsequently completely redesigned by Petitot and adorned with fine statues. During the reign of Marie-Louise the garden was opened to the public and finally in 1866 passed into the ownership of the city council. Within the park there is a little theatre which puts on shows for children. ... |
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