Palazzo del Comune, Renaissance town hall in Parma, Italy

Palazzo del Comune is Parma's town hall, built entirely of brick in a late-Renaissance style modelled on the Palazzo Farnese in Piacenza. It stands on tall arcades known as the Voltoni del Grano, which housed the grain market until 1908. Its façades are lightened by unfinished frames, pilasters and niches, with monuments to Hercules and Antaeus and to Correggio set in ground-floor niches.

The first Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo was built between 1281 and 1282 next to the Palazzo del Podestà, and its civic tower collapsed on 27 January 1606, killing 26 people. Giovanni Battista Magnani designed the new palace from 1627, modelled on the Palazzo Farnese in Piacenza, and construction was completed in 1673 with the exterior decoration left unfinished.

The palace remains the seat of city government and shapes how locals experience the main square through its commanding presence on the piazza. People in Parma see it as the center of their community's administrative life.

The town hall is located in central Parma on Piazza Garibaldi and is easy to reach on foot. Public areas are generally accessible, though some administrative chambers may be restricted to official visitors.

The ground-floor arcade, the Voltoni del Grano, housed Parma's grain market almost without interruption until 1908. Between 1887 and 1976, marble and stone plaques commemorating city and national events were fixed to its pillars, among them Alessandro Marzaroli's 1903 memorial to the fallen in Africa and Giovanni Chierici's 1887 plaque to Giuseppe Mazzini. Restored in 2007, the arcade now hosts exhibitions and events.