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About Parma Factory Tours
Last updated: 2026-07-31
What this site is
Parma Factory Tours is an independent, editorially curated trip-planning guide for travelers based in or arriving at Parma, Italy who want to visit a Parmigiano Reggiano dairy and a Prosciutto di Parma producer without guessing at logistics. Our focus is practical: how long a visit takes, whether you need a car, where pickup happens, and how a factory visit fits around a short stay in the city or a day trip from Milan or Bologna. We publish a short, hand-picked shortlist of tours rather than an exhaustive directory, and we explain the reasoning behind it on our editorial policy page.
What this site is not
Parma Factory Tours is not Viator. We do not operate tours, take payment, manage bookings, issue confirmations, or provide customer support for a completed booking — every one of those steps happens on Viator's own site after you click through from a tour card here. We are also not a ranked "best tours" comparison site (that editorial angle belongs to a sibling publication built specifically for side-by-side comparison) and not a technical guide to how Parmigiano Reggiano is produced inside the dairy (that is the focus of a separate specialist site in our small network). This site's job is the trip logistics: getting from where you're staying to the producer and back, in the time you actually have.
How we make money
We are an affiliate publisher. When you book a tour after clicking through from this site, we may earn a commission from Viator at no extra cost to you. This does not change the price you pay, and it does not buy an operator a place in our shortlist — see our affiliate disclosure for the full detail.
Who writes and reviews this site
Content is written and reviewed by the Parma Factory Tours editorial team — see the author & review page for how pages get checked before and after publication.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or an operator update to report: hello@parmafactorytours.com, or see our contact page.