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I’m sure you already know Parma. You met it in the unique taste of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese or in the sweetness of culatello and Parma ham.

But food, and our new Parma food tour that celebrates it, isn’t the only masterpiece there.
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​Here are some reasons why you should put Parma in your travel bucket list.

1. Watch an Opera where the Opera was born

Chubby men, dressed up with costumes, singing to each other instead of talking. It can look weird, I know.
But if it takes place in a theatre and the music is by Giuseppe Verdi, it becomes Aida, Nabucco or Rigoletto and the tickets get sold out in 20 minutes.

It happens every year at Teatro Regio, an XVIII century theatre with a breathtaking painted curtain.

If you visit Parma in October don’t miss Festival Verdi: days of concerts, music and celebrations in different theatres around the area.
Why all this love for Giuseppe Verdi?
​The grumpy composer was born and lived here in the countryside. It appears that he never wanted to leave Parma without a culatello in the suitcase, put next to the sheet music.

Info
Teatro Regio
Strada Giuseppe Garibaldi 16/A, 43121 Parma
Tel. +39 0521 203999
www.teatroregioparma.it

​Teatro Regio can be visited all year with guided tours, also in the backstage.

2. See the Renaissance dome fresco called “a broth of frog legs”

When in 1522 the painter Correggio received the commission for the big Cathedral’s dome, he felt truly honoured. It was the greatest undertaking he could ever go into, and he tried hard to do his best.
He created a crowd of angels climbing on the clouds, seen from beneath, all intertwined and dizzying.

But Parma citizens knew much more about food than art technique. They couldn’t help to see just a tremendous, golden, swirling “broth of frog legs”.

​Correggio never received another commission for a fresco after that, but the dome is still amazing.

Info
Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
Piazza Duomo, 7, 43121, Parma
Tel: +39 0521 208699
www.piazzaduomoparma.com

3. Count the animals on the Baptistery

Since I was a kid, I always loved animals. First like plastic tyrannosaurus to play with, and then, you know, in shape of salame. So I feel kind of stepping back in time when I turn around the Baptistery and look at the 75 different sculpted animals of zooforo series.

Like the whole building, they were designed by Benedetto Antelami, one of the first that dared to call himself an artist. Before him, only talented anonymous bricklayers.

A monkey, a dear, a camel, a war-elephant, a duck, a bull, a peacock, a hawk, a wolf and an eagle, but also two harpies, a centaur, a griffin and a mermaid.

​You could spend all day looking at them, and your whole life looking for hidden meanings.

Info
Baptistery of San Giovanni Battista
Piazza Duomo, 43121, Parma
Tel: +39 0521 208699
www.piazzaduomoparma.com

4. Visit the magnificent and unfinished Pilotta Palace

Unfinished doesn’t always mean unpleasant. We know much about it in Bologna, where the biggest church, in the biggest square, still lays uncompleted.

Something similar happened in Parma with Palazzo della Pilotta.

It’s a huge building, a town in the town, that changed its shape lots of times during the centuries. It takes its name from the Spanish game of pelota and hosts three museums, a high school, a library and a theatre.
As well as an unexpected dreamy drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, called La Scapigliata.

But the biggest surprise waits for you on the first floor.
There you find Teatro Farnese: a massive arms deposit turned into a 87 meters long baroque theatre all covered in wood.
Lucky were the ones who saw a play inside this astonishing structure. In fact, Teatro Farnese was used only 9 times in almost 300 years.

Info
Palazzo della Pilotta
Piazza della Pilotta, 3, 43121 Parma
Tel +39 0521 233309
www.pilotta.beniculturali.it

5. Visit the museum that Steve Jobs would have adored

After a class in calligraphy during college, Steve Jobs upgraded his computers with different typographies, to make the technology a little bit closer to human creativity.

That’s one of the reasons for Macintosh big success. And it’s also why I think he would have loved to visit Museo Bodoniano.

The museum is all about the work of Giambattista Bodoni and it’s one of the best museums to visit in Emilia Romagna.
Bodoni was an elegant typographer that made Parma the capital of printing in the late XVIII century.

Just another old dusty bookmaker?
​Not at all. Bodoni’s font is still used in logos of Vogue, Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Mamma Mia! and even Nirvana.

Info
Museo Bodoniano – Biblioteca Palatina
Strada alla Pilotta, 3, 43100 Parma
Tel +39 0521 220411
www.museobodoniano.it

6. Take a relaxed walk in Oltretorrente, the new Trastevere

Looking for the coolest neighborhood?
Go on the other side of the river.
It applies to Paris’ “rive gauche”, Florence’s “Oltrarno” and Rome’s “Trastevere”. And Parma is no exception.

​It’s called Oltretorrente, literally beyond the torrent, and there’s no room for fancy restaurants. Just bookshops, farmers markets, osterias, great food and the atmosphere of a small village.

My favorite place to go? Parco Ducale to rest, or even have a picnic, under the shadow of a secular tree.

[photos: Stefano Corrias, Adrian Scottow, Atsje Bosma-Prins​]

Thermal baths in Emilia Romagna: the best places to relax and feel better

Let’s say it first: Emilia Romagna isn’t Tuscany or Iceland.
Don’t expect to find a blue lagoon, Byzantine hammams or wild hot springs between the hills.

But if you’re looking for an intimate place to relax and escape from daily stressful routine, thermal baths are always a great option. 

6 things to know before visiting Bologna

It’s easy to fall in love with Bologna.
It happens to me every day: under a portico, wandering at night in Piazza Maggiore or riding fast through my secrets streets.

​​To live Bologna without a hitch, however, there are a few helpful things to keep in mind.

10 unique Airbnb in Bologna

Wake up in the morning with daylight hitting San Petronio Basilica. 
Make breakfast with eggs and strawberry picked from a vegetable garden of a Villa. Come back at night to enjoy the paintings of an Iranian artist.
These are a few things you can do by choosing one of my 10 best Airbnb in Bologna.
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venerdì 29 giugno 2007 (9 anni fa)

«Reinventare il telefono » fu la sfida lanciata da Steve Jobs all’inizio del 2007, quando, in occasione dell’annuale apertura del Macworld Conference & Expo, mostrò al mondo l’iPhone EDGE, il primo smartphone targato Apple.

 

Presentato dagli stessi ideatori come una combinazione tra «un iPod con schermo touchscreen, un rivoluzionario telefono cellulare e uno strumento innovativo per collegarsi a Internet», il nuovo dispositivo si distingueva dagli altri smartphone in commercio per due aspetti fondamentali: l’interattività multitouch, ossia un display che rispondeva al tocco simultaneo di più dita e accompagnato dall’eliminazione quasi totale dei tasti; perfetta integrazione con il suo sistema operativo iOS 1.0.

 

Al lancio…Continua a leggere»

29 Visite totali, 18 visite odierne

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venerdì 29 giugno 2007 (9 anni fa)

«Reinventare il telefono» fu la sfida lanciata da Steve Jobs all’inizio del 2007, quando, in occasione dell’annuale apertura del Macworld Conference & Expo, mostrò al mondo l’iPhone EDGE, il primo smartphone targato Apple.

 

Presentato dagli stessi ideatori come una combinazione tra «un iPod con schermo touchscreen, un rivoluzionario telefono cellulare e uno strumento innovativo per collegarsi a Internet», il nuovo dispositivo si distingueva dagli altri smartphone in commercio per due aspetti fondamentali: l’interattività multitouch, ossia un display che rispondeva al tocco simultaneo di più dita e accompagnato dall’eliminazione quasi totale dei tasti; perfetta integrazione con il suo sistema operativo iOS 1.0.

 

Al lancio…Continua a leggere»

68 Visite totali, 8 visite odierne

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