SOURCE: Wild About Travel
DATE: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:19:11 +0000
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I can easily imagine the pride and joy felt by the inhabitants when in December 2015 the Unesco named Parma Creative City of Gastronomy. Most people know Parma because of its famous ham and Parmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano), probably not even relating the word to a place. French literature buffs might have read Stendhal’s acclaimed novel The Charterhouse of Parma and opera lovers probably know that Verdi was born in a town some 40 km from Parma, but I suspect that the majority of foreigners have barely heard of the city, and have no idea of where to pin it on the map of Italy. This post Parma and the Italian Food Valley: A Journey to Heaven for Gourmets was first published at Wild About Travel.