Food tours in Parma, Italy, highlight the city's rich local cuisine and introduce you to the sights, smells and tastes of the region's ancient food production processes. Parma, specializing in the making of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, wine, Parma ham and balsamic vinegar, offers plenty of delicacies to try. The city's various food tours, lasting from a morning or an afternoon to several days, give you the history of these Italian traditions, let you watch food production and offer taste tests.
Food Valley Tours
- Food Valley Tours, offering 28 options that let you explore various Italian regions, includes tours of Parma and its surrounds. On tours lasting a morning, an afternoon, a day or several days, highlights include a visit to a Prosciutto di Parma factory and a stop at a vineyard that produces award-winning sparkling red wine. Another tour visits a downtown Parma restaurant and serves an afternoon snack of cured meats and cheeses.
Food n Walk Tours
- The Food n Walk tours offer two tours of Parma, both of which take six or seven hours. The first tour, the 3 Kings "Platinum" Food Tour, offers a heavier, two-course lunch, while the second, the 3 Kings Budget Beater & Crossways tour, includes a lighter lunch of meats and breads. All tours include stops at local food production facilities and a vineyard. You'll need to bring your own car for this tour.
Emilia Delizia Tours
- Emilia Delizia Tours will take you around the Emilia Romagna region, which includes the cities of Bologna, Modena and Parma. After you tour the region's Parmesan, ham and vinegar factories, you'll sit down to a bread, cheese and cured meats lunch at an organic winery. Add-ons to your tour can include a pasta making class or a mushroom-finding expedition You can either bring your own car or be chauffeured around by the company.
Parma Golosa Tours
- On this morning tour, you'll start by visiting cheese, ham and vinegar production plants where you'll learn how whey is separated in cheese-making and how meats are cured. Next, the Parma Golosa tour offers either a lighter lunch of cured meats and cheese or a heavier lunch of stuffed tortelli, dessert and coffee or grappa at the Langhirano vineyards. Started in 2000, the Parma Golosa company offers tours in five languages.
