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Teatro Farnese. Coordinates: 44°48′16.9″N 10°19′33.0″E. Teatro Farnese in Parma. Teatro Farnese is a Renaissance theatre in the Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Italy. [1] It was built in 1618 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti. The idea of creating this grand theater came from the Duke of Parma and Piacenza Ranuccio I Farnese.
1519. San Giovanni Evangelista is a Mannerist -style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazzale San Giovanni, located just behind the apse of the Parma Cathedral, in the historic center of Parma, northern Italy. The buildings surrounding the piazza were also part of a former Benedictine convent. The church is notable for its Correggio frescoes.
Teatro Regio di Parma, originally constructed as the Nuovo Teatro Ducale (New Ducal Theatre), [1] is an opera house and opera company in Parma, Italy. Replacing an obsolete house, the new Ducale achieved prominence in the years after 1829, and especially so after the composer Giuseppe Verdi , who was born near Busseto , some thirty kilometres ...
Monument to the Fallen, Parma. Coordinates: 44°48′15″N 10°19′45″E. The Monument to the Fallen (Italian: Monumento ai caduti) consists of sculptures, reliefs and a plaque affixed in the 1960s to the 18th-century bell-tower (Torre di San Paolo) built attached to the now deconsecrated church of San Ludovico (previously dedicated to San ...
The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. [1] Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the ...
The Galleria nazionale di Parma is an art gallery in Parma, northern Italy.. Painters exhibited in the museum include Beato Angelico, Fra Angelico, Canaletto, Ludovico Carracci (The Funeral of the Virgin Mary), Agostino Carracci (Madonna and Child with Saints), Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Sebastiano del Piombo, Guercino (Susannah and the Elders), Parmigianino (Mystic Marriage of Saint ...
The Shrine of Santa Maria della Steccata is a Greek-cross design Renaissance church in central Parma, Italy. The name derives from the fence (Italian: steccato) in the church. A Nursing Madonna is enshrined within, crowned on 27 May 1601 by a Marian devotee, Fray Giacomo di Forli of the Capuchin order. Pope Benedict XVI raised the Marian ...
www.diocesi.parma.it. The Diocese of Parma ( Latin: Dioecesis Parmensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. It has properly been called Diocese of Parma-Fontevivo since 1892. [1] [2] The bishop's seat is in Parma Cathedral. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola .