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The Baptistery of Parma is a religious edifice, which marks a transition between the Romanesque and Gothic styles. Built in a octagonal shape in 1196, it is considered to be among the most important Medieval monuments in Europe. Inside it is richly painted, with frescos dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

Once the summer residence of Francesco Farnese, then a favorite resort of Don Felipe of Bourbon and his wife Louise Elisabeth, daughter of Louis XV of France, who renews and furnishes the noble model of Versailles, and still inhabited by Marie Louise of Austria until the middle of "the nineteenth century, was inaugurated as equipped when exhibitions of international renown in 1995 with an exhibition dedicated to the Farnese collection."nA long and complex restoration project, due to the care of the Province of Parma and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage by the competent Superintendents, saved the building is to be one of absolute decay, it has adjusted the standard venue, but especially allowed to rediscover the charm of eighteenth-century royal residence, set like a jewel in the Po valley. And today is complete recovery of the recently concluded Italian parterre, which constitutes the frame fresh flowers."nColorno owner of the Palace of the Province warned all the responsibility to pass on a centuries-old history, whose importance is still perceived in the beauty of its architecture and what is in it.

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