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Cittadella of Parma

Cittadella of Parma

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Cittadella of Parma

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Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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1. Parma city tour: walk in the city center

7.48km

01:55

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2. Garibaldi Square – Cittadella of Parma loop from Parma

5.61km

01:26

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3. Cittadella of Parma loop from San Lazzaro

5.88km

01:29

10m

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

June 14, 2023

La Cittadella is a military fortress in the shape of a pentagon with ramparts and a moat. It was built towards the end of the sixteenth century by Alessandro Farnese, a great captain, governor of Flanders (1578-1592), third duke of Parma (1586). Duke Alessandro again took over the idea of his grandfather Pier Luigi, the first Duke of Parma (1545-47), who in 1546 had already taken the area on which stood the Gothic church and convent of the Santissima Annunziata of Porta Nuova of the Friars Minor Franciscans, to build a military factory there. It took shape only a few decades later.

Personally designed by Alessandro Farnese, the Citadel was inspired down to the smallest details by those designed in Antwerp by Francesco Paciotto. It was built by the ducal engineers Giovanni Antonio Stirpio de'Brunelli and Genesio Bresciano, with the collaboration of Smeraldo Smeraldi.

Today the area is used as a public park, and the pentagonal shape, the bastions and the entrance door to the city (1596), the work of Simone Moschino, are the only ancient structures to survive.

See more at visit-parma.com/en/history-cittadella

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LUTZE

November 16, 2022

for about 7000 prisoners it. Soldiers who were deported from here to Germany in September 1943. Various German military units were then stationed here.

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

June 11, 2023

Parma's old citadel still exudes history. It is still a green lung in the city. In the weekends it is a meeting between young and old.

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Cittadella of Parma

1. Parma city tour: walk in the city center

2. Garibaldi Square – Cittadella of Parma loop from Parma

3. Cittadella of Parma loop from San Lazzaro

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