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where mountaineers had to get their lice checked before they could enter the city.
Via Farini is today one of Parma’s main streets. In ancient times it was called Strada dei Genovesi because of the presence of the warehouses that, from here, carried Parma’s cheeses and cold cuts to the port of the Ligurian city. Nearby on Via Maestri is a strange symbol which in a stylized way was meant to represent a louse. During the medieval period, it was ordered that mountaineers from the Apennine mountains, who often carried the troublesome parasite, passed through the area.
