Places of taste and knowledge

LABORATORIO APERTO PARMA

A public space in the heart of the city, dedicated to creative collaboration between citizens, associations, companies, research centers, institutions: the Laboratorio Aperto of Parma, recently inaugurated in the restored spaces of the San Paolo Complex. The Open Laboratory of Parma is the new multifunctional space in the heart of the city: inside shared spaces [...]

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BOTTEGA BARILLA EXPERIENCE

The historic Bottega, founded by Pietro Barilla in 1877 along via Repubblica, is the first stop on a 145-year journey that, today, has led the Parma company to become a world leader in the production of pasta. A unique opportunity to discover a hidden corner of the Barilla Historical Shop. The shop where past and [...]

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Museo del Culatello e del Masalén

MUSEO DEL CULATELLO E DEL MASALEN

The complex of the Antica Corte Pallavicina in Polesine stands out in a glimpse of Parma Lowlands dominated by the sound of the Great River, where the fog is an essential ingredient of taste. And it is here that the Museo del Culatello and the Masalén has recently been inaugurated. The museum itinerary presents, one [...]

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Museo della Pasta a Collecchio

PASTA MUSEUM

In the 19th century the Barilla enterprise began in Parma, creating the link between territory and product symbol of Italian culture: this was the genesis of the Pasta Museum. The exhibition tells the whole history starting from the raw material, the grain of wheat, and its transformation in the tradition of home cooking through to [...]

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Musée du vin

MUSEO DEL VINO O CANTINA DEI MUSEI DEL CIBO

The Wine Cellar of the Food Museums is a sensory journey dedicated to wine in Parma beginning with the archaeology of wine in Parma. Through objects and documents it describes viticulture, harvesting, preparation of wine and tells the story of the cask, bottle, corkscrew and label. It ends with the great testimonials and protagonists of [...]

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MUSEUM OF SALAME FELINO

The Museum of Salame Felino is located in the beautiful cellars of the Castle of Felino, the ancient castle that overlooks the valley between the Parma and Baganza rivers. The trail tells of the connection between Felino and its iconic product, of the cuisine, located in the inviting kitchen, of the butchering and home production [...]

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MUSEUM OF PROSCIUTTO DI PARMA

The Museum of Prosciutto is located in Langhirano, the recognised capital of prosciutto, in the former Forum Boarium complex. In a hilly landscape rich in character, the museum, through machinery, tools, documents and images, tells the story of the territory and the pig breeds on which the quality of the products depended. There is talk [...]

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MUSEO DEL POMODORO

The Tomato Museum, housed in a medieval agro-food processing centre, tells the long history of this “exotic” product that arrived in this territory from America, deeply marking the economic development. The objects and the documents displayed here describe the evolution of production and industrial technology, from processing to preservation, and they raise the curtain on [...]

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MUSEUM OF PARMIGIANO REGGIANO

The Museum of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese was established within the Corte Castellazzi, in the farmstead used for centuries for its production, in the shadow of the Rocca Meli Lupi di Soragna. Here you can find more than 120 objects dating from the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century and about a hundred [...]

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