Pallanza - 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.

Pallanza is adjacent to Suna and it is the actual town hall, in a building of Eight hundred parvis supported by thirtytwo pillars in pink granite of Baveno. This turistic place offers a fascinating panorama, exposed in the northern part of the gulf Borromeo and it allows to see, from the lake-front, the smallest of such islands, the island San Giovanni and the greatest one, the island Madre. The inhabited center is characterized from numerous artistic testimonies of notable importance among which they deserve to be mentioned the Romanesque churches of Santo Stefano and that one of the Madonna di Campagna of Five hundred. Interesting the baroque building Dugnani, and of Six hundred, currently center of the museum and the Gallery of the Landscape and the monuments of the Troubetzkoy, to which the name of part of the lake-front has been devoted. Overcoming the public port, continuing for street Vittorio Veneto, it reaches the Point of the Castagnola, a promontory that divides Pallanza from Intra and that it takes its name from the rich presence of ancient chestnut trees, where stately villas rise, among which Villa San Remigio, an oasis of parks in English style and in Italian too, with a great variety of vegetation, and the most recent and enviable Villa Taranto, where there are fountains, terraces, tubs, over 20.000 kind of plants, also exotic. To visit Villa Giulia, composed by a façade with columns and with a garden rich in vegetation. In the summer period, from July, there are numerous initiatives like sail regattas, sporting competitions, concerts and small markets.

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