milan’s great escapes: parma
September 22, 2008 10:01 am
Milan is one of the world’s best transit towns, a fact that more than makes up for its never-ending traffic and the smog that blankets the city. Style.com offers mini-itineraries of interesting places to visit that are close enough to the city to be accessible but far enough away to give you a break.
Parma
Just one and a half hours out of Milan, set in a nondescript building in a nondescript hamlet, is Trattoria La Buca, a restaurant that is so seriously good that when the food arrives it generates a spontaneous, sports stadium-style wave from diners. After one of the best meals of your life, you can either take a trip to the Las Vegas-style Fidenza Outlet Shopping Village, set around cute but extremely fake-looking lanes and piazzas, or you can stroll around Parma. The best way of seeing the city is to take a walking tour (Google “walking tour Parma”) that starts in the Piazza del Duomo, where you can also take in the cathedral and the baptistery. Don’t miss a visit to the astonishing wood Teatro Farnese, built by one of Palladio’s pupils in 1618.
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