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Santa Maria della Steccata is a Renaissance church on a Greek-cross plan in central Parma, built from 1521 to house a venerated image of the nursing Madonna; its name recalls the fence (steccato) once put up around the image. Parmigianino painted the frescoes of the arch before the apse, and since 1718 it has been the church of the Constantinian Order of Saint George.
Parma Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is a Romanesque church consecrated in 1106, whose sandstone façade with three tiers of loggias was completed in 1178. Inside, the dome carries Correggio's illusionistic fresco of the Assumption, and the transept holds Benedetto Antelami's relief of the Deposition from the Cross, dated 1178.
San Giovanni Evangelista is the church of a Benedictine abbey just behind the apse of Parma Cathedral, rebuilt between 1498 and 1510 to a design by Bernardino Zaccagni. Its marble façade dates from 1604 to 1607 and its bell tower is the tallest in Parma; inside, Correggio painted the dome fresco of the Vision of St John on Patmos.
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