Collecchio is a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is located 12.9 kilometres by road southwest of the centre of Parma. A major food-producing area, it is home to multinational Italian dairy and food corporation Parmalat and the Parma F.C. training complex, Centro Sportivo di Collecchio, and is connected by railway. Under the Romans it was called Sustrina, Later, in Christian times it was called, Colliculum, because of its location on a small hill.