Intra - municipality of Verbania

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Verbania is a town born in 1939 by the union of Intra and Pallanza, to which they have been tied up Fondotoce and Suna, with other small villages of the lake hinterland. From 1992 it has become chief town of the province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.

Intra is adjacent to Pallanza, over the point of the Castagnola and it is delimited by the streams San Giovanni and San Bernardino, it is the most populous place that composes the municipality of Verbania. Further to be an ancient Roman installation, it is a modern active industrial reality for last century with chemical industries, mechanics, paper mills, foundries that have made the town the most greater commercial port of the lake Maggiore. By the piers of the public and private service boats continually depart ferries that connect it to Laveno, on the Lombardy coast, and its ports manifest the interest of the place for the navigation. From the lake it is recognizable from the tall dome in copper of the eighteenth-century San Vittore's cathedral, to visit the church of San Fabiano, the buildings Perretti, the oratorical San Giuseppe and the town hall. In the summer period, from July, there are numerous initiatives like sail regattas, sporting competitions, concerts and small markets.

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