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The Palazzo della Pilotta is a large brick palace complex begun around 1583 for the Farnese dukes of Parma and never completed; its name comes from the ball game pelota once played in its courtyards. As the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta it houses the National Gallery, the Archaeological Museum, the Palatine Library, the Bodoni Museum and the Teatro Farnese.
Teatro Farnese is a wooden court theatre on the first floor of the Palazzo della Pilotta, built in 1618 by Giovan Battista Aleotti for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese and inaugurated in 1628. Nearly destroyed by bombing in 1944, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1962. Visitors walk through its horseshoe of tiered wooden seating below a painted loggia.
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