Private Tour to Parma City of Art and its Hidden Pearls (private tour)

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About this activity

Parma is a city to discover, the last of the Italian cities to be named CAPITAL OF CULTURE. This tour is the most complete and rich in monuments that can be done in a day of visiting the city. A full immersion of art treasures, anecdotes, legends, tales and immersions in the medieval world of the monks, and in the Renaissance world of the princes.

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At a glance

Duration: 4–5 hours
Confirmation: Confirmed within 48 hours
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–8
Guide: English, Italian
Operated by: Riccardo Bacchi

Ages: Infants (0–2 years) · Children (3–13 years) · Youth (14–18 years) · Adults (19–79 years) · Seniors (80–90 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Entrance tickets to all the monuments indicated

Not included

Not included: Lunch
Not included: Private transportation

Itinerary

Camera di San Paolo e Cella di Santa Caterina

40 min Admission included

Splendid rooms of the female convent, with Renaissance rooms frescoed by the painter Correggio
Battistero di Parma

20 min

Visit of the exteriors of the absolute masterpiece of the Italian Romanesque / Gothic, a jewel that blinds for its beauty and richness of details. It is probably the most important late medieval baptistery in Ialia
Cattedrale di Parma

40 min Admission included

Cathedral perfectly preserved in its Romanesque magnificence, with splendid chapels and Gothic frescoes, and the dome famous all over the world for Correggio's fresco. Here is also the absolute masterpiece of the Romanesque sculptor Benedetto Antelami. In addition, the whole church is a concentrate of works of art and surprises,
Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata (Madonna della Steccata)

30 min

Renaissance church with a central plan, containing an absolute masterpiece of late Renaissance art by the painter Parmigianino
National Gallery (Galleria Nazionale)

one hour Admission included

Great monumental complex,

Original wooden library

National Gallery with first-level works of art including Leonardo Da Vinci, Parmigianino, Gaddi, Botticelli and Guercino
Teatro Farnese

30 min Admission included

Great Baroque theater, partly still intact in its stucco decorations and wooden parts.

Detailed visit to all the rooms of the most important seventeenth-century theater in Italy
Parma

30 min

Library and Abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista, with important frescoes, cloisters