Best Parma Day Trips & Things to Do

See the mini-metropolis that is one of Italy’s most prosperous cities. Parma is the birthplace of Giuseppe Verde and home to some of the world’s most famous and favorite hams and cheeses. Must-see sights include the Romanesque Duomo, where you will find Correggio’s Assunzione della Vergine (Assumption of the Virgin) with its cherubim and whirling angels, and the cathedral’s Battistero, an octagonal pink-marble baptistery that is one of the most important such structures in Italy.