1. DIANA, JEMIMA, SILVIA, ZAINAB, ZINAIDA, KATE, CALLIOPE, ELODIE
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DIANA, JEMIMA, SILVIA, ZAINAB, ZINAIDA, KATE, CALLIOPE, ELODIE

2. We are:
Diana,
Jemima,
Silvia,
Zainab,
Zinaida,
Kate,
Calliope
and Elodie

3. Piazza Garibaldi
Piazza Garibaldi is the center of the city life. The current appearance of the square is the result of historical layers of three different construction phases, which have seen gradually arrange themselves in this area the main offices of the
municipal power. Other major transformations
of the Piazza were implemented in the
fourteenth century, when the Visconti closed
the square and they transformed it into a
barricaded and well-defended military complex.
In 1606 the collapse of the tower anticipated the arrangement of the north side and the twentieth century the west side alterations have increased the uneven character of the square, giving it its present form. The square was named after Giuseppe Garibaldi in Today it stands as the administrative center of the city and offers an image multifaceted, with some buildings of medieval appearance.The Statue of Garibaldi was an opera by Davide Calandra ( ) and inaugurated in1893.

4. Pilotta
Its name derives from the game of pelota played at one time by Spanish soldiers stationed in Parma.
Built around 1583, during the last years of reign of Duke Ottavio Farnese.
The existing complex includes three courts: the Cortile di San Pietro Martire , Cortile del Guazzatoio and the Cortile della Racchetta. The Pilotta was to house a large hall, later turned into the Teatro Farnese, the stables and the grooms' residences, the Academy Hall and other rooms.
After the end of the Farnese family rule of Parma, much of the movable assets of the palace were removed by then Duke Charles I, later King of Spain, and taken to Naples in the 1730s. The Biblioteca Palatina was established here by 1769.

5. San Giovanni
San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in Parma, northern Italy, part of a complex also including a Benedictine convent and grocery.
Works for the abbey and church were started in the 10th century over a pre-existing oratory associated with St. Colombanus. In 1477 the whole complex was damaged by a fire.The abbey basilica was rebuilt from around 1490.
The construction ended around The design included since the beginning a thoroughly painting decoration of the interior, and a contract had been signed with the young Correggio, who a had already worked in another Benedictine monastery, in the Camera della Badessa of San Paolo.

6. San Paolo
The former Convent of San Paolo is located on Via Macedonio Melloni, in central Parma. It is best known for housing the Chamber of St Paul, a masterpiece of fresco work by Antonio Correggio.Tradition holds that the monastery was erected on the spot where Godescalco, the son-in-law of the Lombard king Agilulf, converted to Christianity and took the name Paolo. Supposedly he endowed the convent after his young wife had died during childbirth.
The convent mainly admitted women from aristocratic or wealthy lineage. It was to this monastery that Margherita Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma was admitted after the failure and annulment of her marriage with Vincenzo II Gonzaga, the heir to the Duchy of Mantua. The convent came into the management of the comune.

7. Teatro Farnese
Teatro Farnese is a Baroque-style theatre in Parma, Italy. It was built in 1618 by Giovanni Battista Aleotti. The theatre was almost destroyed by an Allied air raid during World War II in1944. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1962.

8. Battistero
The Baptistery is a masterpiece in which architecture and sculpture come together. It represents one of the highest expressions of Italian art and symbolizes the transition from Romanesque to Gothic. The baptistery was begun in the late twelfth century, designed by Benedetto Antelami, who directed the work, and he executed most of the admirable plastic decorations.
The building is considered today one of the monuments most important medieval Italy. It runs all around the so-called zooforo: a series of panels carved with real and imaginary animals, medieval symbols of the ideas of life and nature. Magnificent are the three portals, decorated with architraves and lunettes, rich in theological references and symbolic representations typical medieval iconography.
The interior is characterized by lines stretching high in height, as a result of the sixteen ribs reaching toward the rib vault .
In the cupola, a magnificent cycle of tempera paintings of the second half of the twelfth century.

9. Thank you for a wonderful week !!!
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