Parma

We started with a walking tour that included the three main squares or piazzas, Garibaldi, Cathedral and Pilotta. Garibaldi is the center of town near shops and city hall.  That was our meeting point.  Garibaldi was the leader who unified Italy in the mid 1800's. At the Cathedral there was a Nov 4 ceremony honoring veterans. Inside the Cathedral we saw two masterpieces of early Italian art.  The first was a marble relief from the early1200's signed and dated by the artist.  Very unusual for the time.  The other was a fresco by Corregio from 1530 that used perspective in a dome-a first. Continued on to view a reconstructed wooden theater and the art museum.