Monastero di San Paolo
Already famous for culture and spirituality, is now partly museum, housing famous fresco by Correggio "Room of Abbess Giovanna da Piacenza". Benedictine Monastery of St. Paul was founded around 1000 by Bishop of Parma, Sigefredo II. It had its heyday at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, under Cecilia Bergonzi and Giovanna da Piacenza, who made one of the most significant cultural centers of Parma. Today Museum path is a reconstruction of private environments of Giovanna da Piacenza, which includes: the room with the ceiling decorated in 1514 by Alessandro Araldi with candelabra and grotesques and Room of Abbess by Correggio, dated to 1519 and characterized by an innovative illusionistic decoration "a pergola" overlooked putti. In a wing of Monastery in 2002 it was set up Stuard Gallery. Garden is within the walls of the convent and its margins lies the cell of Santa Caterina, a small chapel with frescoes by Araldi.