Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Shopping
BOOKS
Libreria Fiaccadori
(Strada Duomo 8a; 9am-7.30pm Mon-Sat, 10am-1pm & 3.30-7.30pm Sun)
Good old-fashioned
bookshop with ladders to reach the high shelves and plenty of titles in English.
Salumeria Garibaldi
(Via Garibaldi 42; 8am-8pm Mon-Sat)
Tempting new visitors cruelly just steps from the train
station is this bountiful delicatessen with dangling sausages, shelves of Lambrusco wines,
slabs of Parma ham and wheel upon wheel of
parmigiano reggiano
.
FOOD
Information
Police station
(
0521 21 94; Borgo della Posta 16a)
Post office
(Via Melloni)
Tourist office
(Piazza Garibaldi;
9am-1pm & 3-7pm Mon, 9am-7pm Tue-Sat, 9am-1pm Sun)
Getting There & Away
and has thrice-weekly flights to London Stansted with Ryanair. Bus 6 links to the train sta-
tion.
buses throughout the region.
Parma is on the A1 connecting Bologna and Milan, and just east of the A15, which runs
to La Spezia. Via Emilia (SS9) passes right through town.
There are frequent trains to Milan (regional/express €10.45/23, 1¼ to 1¾ hours,
hourly), Bologna (€6.80, one hour, half-hourly), Modena (€5, 30 minutes, half-hourly)
and Piacenza (€5, 40 minutes, half-hourly).
Getting Around
Traffic is banned from the historic centre, so leave your car at the underground car park on
Viale Toschi and grab a bike, available for hire next door at
Parma Punto Bici
