2020 is an important year for Parma, as it has been elected Italy’s own Capital of Culture, the city to represent our culture and heritage both in the country and around the world.   Let’s learn something more about this beautiful town, which’s been embodiment of Italian, timeless beauty since Roman times. 

Parma goes far back in time, as the first proven settlements were around 1000 years BC. Typically, the cultural evolution of each central/lower Northern Italian city is that it was part of the Etruscan civilization first, then annexed to the Roman Empire.