YELLOW IN PARMA
Theme: ArtYellow is Parma traditional colour.
The buildings commissioned by the Farnese already showed a wide use of yellow and ocher, but it was Petitot who made yellow the “official” colour of the city during his restauration in the second half of the 18th century. It is told that the architect was inspired by the facades of the houses in Sant’Anna Street and San Michele Street, whose owners had chosen that shade because charmed by the colour of the hair of Isabella of Bourbon during the wedding parade that took place in those surroundings.
At the end of the ‘50s yellow was used in an almost obsessive way by the inhabitants of the city to paint the facades of their buildings to the point that still today it is, with all its shades, the main colour of the historic center.
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