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about Parma

Parma is a medieval city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with splendid architecture and a fine countryside around it.

Picturs Palazzo Ducale sede Authority Picturs Certosa di Parma Picturs Duomo e Battistero Picturs Piazza della Pace

The city was most probably founded and named by the Etruscans, for a parma (circular shield) was a Latin borrowing, as were many Roman terms for particular arms, and "Parmeal" "Parmni" and "Parmnial" are names that appear in Etruscan inscriptions. Diodorus Siculus (XXII, 2,2; XXVIII, 2,1) reported that the Romans had changed their rectangular shields for round ones, imitating the Etruscans. Whether the Etruscan encampment was so named because it was round, like a shield, or whether its situation was a shield against the Gauls to the north, is more a matter of choice.

With Piacenza Parma was part of the combined Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, until the unification of Italy..

It hosts the Teatro Regio, a famous opera theatre.

Stendhal set much of his masterpiece (The Charterhouse of Parma) in the city, even though there was no "Charterhouse" in real life.

The town is also famous for its cheese "Parmigiano Reggiano" (which pride it shares with Reggio Emilia), for its Parma ham, and now for its international commercial brand Parmalat.

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