What to do near Colorno, PR

The palace of Colorno, a small Italian Versailles

Visiting the Ducal Palace of Parma and its beautiful Italian garden

Brescello and the Peppone and Don Camillo Museum

On the indelible traces of a story that makes us children again

Sabbioneta, the ideal city

Jewel of the Renaissance, an outstanding urban planning and artistic testimony to the Italian 500s

The Brescello Film Festival and the "Ruseda"

A review combining cinema, tastes and legend

The Garden Palace of Sabbioneta

The Villa di delizia of Vespasiano Gonzaga is a hymn to classical antiquity.

The Gallery of the Ancients of Sabbioneta

Built by Duke Vespasian to house his art collection, it is a very long gallery, now empty but offering an extraordinary perspective, concluded by a tromp l'oeil of faux architecture.

The Old-Fashioned Theater of Sabbioneta

Worthy rival of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

The red walls of Sabbioneta

The city is surrounded by impressive brick walls dating back to the founding in the 1500s; they are interspersed with six mighty bastions, with two openings, Imperial Gate and Victory Gate.

The Ducal Palace of Sabbioneta

Sumptuous palace of representation, emblem of ducal power

Church of St. Anthony Abbot, Bibbiena's masterpiece

Extraordinary Baroque church with double domes. The second, pierced, hints at the angels on blue sky of the first, lit by hidden windows. Ė like peeking into heaven.

The Chamber of St. Paul in Parma

In the former Monastery of St. Paul discover the art of Correggio and the story of Abbess Giovanna Piacenza

The Pilotta, the dream of the Farnese family

Home to museums, a beautiful contemporary garden and the magnificent Farnese Theater