Corte di Giarola
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Corte di Giarola (meaning court of Giarola) is an Italian medieval rural court with an inner church, located in the village of Pontescodogna, part of commune of Collecchio, in Province of Parma. Corte di Giarola is presently a multi-purpose facility. It includes the headquarters of the Ente di Gestione per i Parchi (meaning the Park Management Authority) and Biodiversità Emilia Occidentale. It also hosts the Museum of Tomato (in Italian Museo del pomodoro), the . (in Italian Museo della pasta) being part of Museum of Food (Musei del cibo), the Museo Sotto il segno dell'Acqua which is an exhibition trail dedicated to the Taro River Regional Park, in addition to small 99-seat theatre called Teatro alla Corte, plus an auditorium hall, two conference rooms and a restaurant.
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The complex originally contained the church Chiesa di San Nicomede, located in the southwest corner of the court. Now the complex retains just a few portions of the exterior wall of the original Romanesque structure, decorated with a motif with Lombard bands; the interior, covered by a ceiling in wooden beams rebuilt after the bombings of World War II, displays some valuable works dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.