Province o Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (Italian: Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola) is the northmaist province in the Italian region o Piemont. It wis creatit in 1996 through the fusion o three destinct regions which haed previously been pairt o the Province o Novara. The aurie flankin the wastren shore o Verbano (or Lago Maggiore) forms the eastren pairt o the province; Cusio (or Lago d’Orta) an its environs form the soothren pairt; while the north an east o the province consists o the Ossola, a region o Alpine muntains an valleys.

The province haes a total population o some 160,000, distributit ower an aurie o 2,255 km², wi the biggest population centres being its caipital Verbania on the shores of Lago Maggiore, Domodossola the main toun o the Ossola, an Omegna at the northren end o Lago d’Orta.


 Municipal subdiveesions 
There are 77 communes in the province ( ). O the these the lairgest bi population are:
CommunePopulation Verbania30,836  120pxDomodossola18,362  120pxOmegna15,949  120pxGravellona Toce7,595  120pxVilladossola6,915  Cannobio5,113  120pxStresa5,104  120px

 Cultur 
 UNESCO Sacred Muntains 
In 2003, the Sacred Muntain o Domodossola an the Sacred Muntain o Ghiffa wur insertit bi UNESCO in the Warld Heritage Leet.

Demographics

The top aicht kintras o oreegin o the inhabitants o Verbano-Cusio-Ossola wi foreign citizenship at 31 December 2010 were:
 Ukraine 1724
 Morocco 1402
 Romanie 1233
 Albanie 770
 Cheenae 737
 Senegal 429
 Germany 315
 Swisserland 219

 References 

 Freemit airtins 
 Offeecial wabsteid 
 Portale del Lago Maggiore - a portal run bi the local Trading Chamber
 Offeecial wab steid for European Sacred Muntains