Parma (province) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of Italy
About Parma (province)
Parma Province spans from the broad plain of the Po valley up into the Apennine mountain chain. Parma was founded by the Romans in 183 AD as they colonised along theVia Aemilia, and the county or province was established in 774 AD. They were fought over by rival dynasties for centuries. Preeminent of these were the Farneses from 1521 to 1731: Alessandro Farnese (Pope Paul III) captured Parma and settled it with his offspring. It then passed to the Bourbons then fell to Napoleon. When the 1813 Treaty of Vienna carved up his territories, Parma was awarded to the Hapsburgs of Austria-Hungary. It changed hands twice more then joined the Kingdom of Italy. These rulers mostly embellished more than they destroyed, and in World War II there was serious but not widespread damage. The province there
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