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| Postcards from Parma |
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| Monastery of St. John the Evangelist |
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| The adjoining monastery to the Church of St. John the Evangelist was built in the 16th century. It's composed of three cloisters: Cloister of St. John (1537-1538), Cloister of the Chapter (1500) and Cloister of St. Benedict, where the monks live, built between 1508-1512. The pharmacy-spice shop "Spezieria di San Giovanni" dates from 1500, it's the place where Benedictine monks mixed medicines and herbals and stored in an underlying room. The production stopped in 1881. |
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