Hotel Palace Maria Luigia * * * * Superior
Viale Mentana, 140
40100 Parma - Emilia Romagna - Italy
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SPORT FACILITIES AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES AT THE PROPERTY OR NEARBY
 
 

The main building of the hotel is enhanced with the charming view of the patio garden and gives the warm atmosphere of being in a home away from home.

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La Rocca Golf Club

La Rocca Golf is located 5 Kms. away from the Palace Maria Luigia. close to the ducal village of Sala Baganza. This is a technical and moderately difficult course set amidst oak and acacia woods and artificial lakes. The course has 18 holes and covers 6,076 metres.
 

The hotel has an exclusive arrangement with the Magnani Rocca Museum foundation whereby the museum - featuring a collection of Manet, Degas, Monet, Van Dyck, and the only Goya exhibited outside of the Prado in Madrid.

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ABOUT PARMA
 
 

Parma, Emilia RomagnaParma, a city of aristocratic cultural traditions and abounding in precious works of art and relics of its past role as capital, is famous for its illustrious native sons and the artists who used to work there: from Benedetto Antelami to Salimbene, from Correggio to Parmigianino, from Bodoni to Verdi and Toscanini and from Stendhal to Proust. It boasts a historic center with a number of highly significant monuments, in styles ranging from Romanesque to art nouveau. The enlightened rule of Napoleon's second wife Marie-Louise, when the city was the capital of the duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, left a particularly deep mark. Parma is also known as the capital of the Italian food industry, famous for such inimitable products as Parma ham and Parmesan cheese. The city's Teatro Regio is a place of pilgrimage for opera lovers from all over the world, while in the environs the castle of Montechiarugolo offers a splendid medieval setting.
 

PLACES TO VISIT IN THE CITY
 

The Baptistery

The Baptistery:
Between 1196 and 1216, the construction of the baptistery was entrusted to Benedetto Antelami who supervised both the building and the rich sculptural decoration, carved with the help of assistants. The frescoes that decorate the niches of the bottom story constitute one of the most significant cycles of pictures in Northern Italy.

 

The Cathedral of Parma


The Cathedral:
The Cathedral of Parma, like that of Modena, is set on the Via Romea, one of the most important highways of medieval Christendom and the route used by pilgrims on their way to Rome and the Holy Land. Following a serious fire, work commenced on the complete reconstruction of the building in 1076 and it was consecrated by Pope Paschal II in 1106. Thirteenth-century additions include the distyle porch of the central portal, the small loggias under the slopes of the roof, and the campanile in the Gothic style. Between the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries, Antelami built the adjacent baptistery and carved its sculptural decoration, completing the design of the square in front of the cathedral. The original roof of the building, with a wooden ceiling, was replaced by groin vaults during the thirteenth century.