Tourism, Hotels & RestaurantsLocal tourist spot suggestions Parma | A multi-faceted palace: pelota has been succeeded by museums, a library and a theatre. | |  | |
| Foolish or wise, views of the Virgins by the Parma School. | |  | | |
| The ancestor of all pharmacies. | |  | | |
Local restaurant suggestions Parma | Lunches in this restaurant are straightforwardly conventional, whereas the menus for evening dining are more elaborate. | |  | |
| Bright restaurant dining room in simple style. | |  | | | | A traditional local cuisine, with some creative touches, also inspired from the other side of the Alps, seasonal; an "on the up" establishment. | |  | |
| This glorious, old restaurant is only a short distance from the Duomo and is housed in a 17C edifice. It is managed today by two women. The cuisine is local but also proposes other dishes. | |  | | |
| | VM_PHOTO_VM Parma is the birthplace of two great painters, (Correggio and Il Parmigianino) and the conductor Arturo Toscanini. It has an outstanding history, especially when it was ruled by the Farnese family (1545-1731) and then by the Bourbon-Parma dynasty, who governed the duchy of Parma- Piacenza, separated from the papal states by Pope Paul III in favour of his... son ! Today, the soft light city retains the charm that Stendhal depicted so well in The Charterhouse of Parma. | |