Piazza Ghiaia and the city markets

Market scene from the 16th-century frescoes at Issogne Castle in the Val d’Aosta region.

ALESSANDRO SANSEVERINI, Exterior of Farnese slaughterhouse in Piazza Ghiaia – 18th-century drawing (Parma, State Archives).

ALESSANDRO SANSEVERINI, Interior of the Farnese slaughterhouse in an 18th-century drawing showing the benches on which meat was processed (Parma, State Archive)

ALESSANDRO SANSEVERINI, Interior of the old slaughterhouse (Parma, State Archives)

PIETRO MAZZA, The Beccherie in an illustration of Monumenti e Munificenze di Maria Luigia (Parma, Private collection).

Giuseppe Drugman, La piazza delle Beccherie, oil on canvas, 1839 (Parma, Galleria Nazionale).

GIULIO CARMIGNANI, Piazza Ghiaia nell’Ottocento, detail (Parma, Galleria Nazionale).

The market in Piazza Ghiaia with the stalls in front of the Beccherie in a postcard of the 1910s (Parma, Private collection).

The market in Piazza Ghiaia in the 1930s, after the demolition of the Beccherie (Parma, Private collection).

Two images of the market in Piazza Ghiaia in the 1930s (Parma, Private collection).

Two images of the market in Piazza Ghiaia in the 1930s (Parma, Private collection).

The market in Piazza Ghiaia in the 1950s.