Verbania

Verbania  (, ) is a ceety an comune (commune) on the shore o Loch Maggiore, Piemont, in northwast Italy, aboot  north-wast o Milan an aboot  frae Locarno in Swisserland.

Owerview
It faces the ceety o Stresa leein at a distance o  athort Loch Maggiore ( bi road).  The present-day Verbania wis creatit bi the 1939 merger o the ceeties o Intra, Pallanza an Suna, an ither frazioni. Syne 1992 it haes been the caipital o the province o Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.  A smaw islet leein a stane's throw frae the shores o Verbania (the Pallanza subdiveesion) an separatit frae it bi a narrae stretch o watter juist 10 or 15 metres' wide, kent as the Isolino di San Giovanni, is famous for haein been the hame o Arturo Toscanini atween the years o 1927 an 1952.

Main sichts
 Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto, an estate wi fine botanical gardens.

Transport
Verbania-Pallanza railwey station, opened in 1905, forms pairt o the Milan–Domodossola railwey. It is in the Fondotoce destrict, atween Loch Mergozzo an the river Toce, juist upstream frae whaur the Toce flows intae Lake Maggiore.

Twin touns
Verbania is twinned wi the follaein ceeties an touns:

   Bourg-de-Péage, Fraunce
    Crikvenica, Croatie
    East Grinstead, Unitit Kinrick
    Mindelheim, Germany
   Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
  Schwaz, Austrick
   Piatra Neamţ, Romanie

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Category:Populatit places on Loch Maggiore