Parma - Baptistery

From Piazza Garibaldi in Parma the busy Strada Cavour runs north. On the right the short Strada al Duomo leads to the Piazza del Duomo. Immediately on the left of this square is the Bishop's Palace, on the right the Baptistery, a massive octagonal marble building begun in Romanesque style by Benedetto Antelami in 1196-1216 (the doorways, with reliefs of scriptural subjects, are his work) and completed in Gothic style in 1260; it contains 13th century high reliefs and frescoes.