Emilia-Romagna

Parma

A cultural-power walk through Parma, linking its Romanesque cathedral and Baptistery, Correggio’s illusionism, the Farnese court and Teatro Farnese, Bourbon and Napoleonic-era rule, Marie Louise’s Teatro Regio and a musical identity extending through Verdi and Toscanini. Food is present, but the guide refuses to let prosciutto and cheese swallow the city’s political and artistic history.