Verbania

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Verbania
coat of arms
Verbania (Italy)
Verbania
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 45 ° 56 '  N , 8 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '0 "  N , 8 ° 32' 0"  E
height 197  m slm
surface 37 km²
Residents 30,391 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 821 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28900 (general),
28921 Antoliva e Intra,
28922 Pallanza,
28923 Trobaso,
28924 Bieno e Fondotoce,
28925 Cavandone e Suna
prefix 0323
ISTAT number 103072
Popular name verbanesi
Patron saint Victor of Milan ( May 8 )
Website Verbania
Verbania-Pallanza on Lake Maggiore
Verbania-Intra (photographed from the Laveno-Verbania car ferry)
Verbania-Pallanza as seen from Isola dei Pescatori

Verbania is an Italian commune in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region with 30,391 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Since 1992 it has been the capital of the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province , which was separated from the Novara Province .

geography

The city is located at an altitude of 197 m above sea level. M. on the western shore of Lake Maggiore and is located about 15 kilometers south of the border with Switzerland . It extends over an area of ​​37 km². The closest major city is about 70 kilometers southeast of Milan .

The municipality consists of the districts Antoliva, Bieno, Biganzolo, Cavandone, Fondotoce , Intra, Pallanza, Possaccio, Suna, Torchiedo, Trobaso and Zoverallo. The region around Verbania is an example of a high degree of urban sprawl , which means that the place sprawls along the main road to Cambiasca , which is more than five kilometers from the city center. The neighboring municipalities are Arizzano , Baveno , Cambiasca, Cossogno , Ghiffa , Gravellona Toce , Laveno-Mombello , Mergozzo , Miazzina , San Bernardino Verbano , Stresa and Vignone . The patron saint of the city is San Vittore.

history

The city of Verbania was created in 1939 when the cities of Intra and Pallanza were merged.

The name of the district Intra comes from the geographical location between the two torrents (in Latin intra flumina ) San Giovanni (north) and San Bernardino (south).

During the massacre on Lake Maggiore , members of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler murdered the Italian Jew Ettore Ovazza and his entire family in the Intra district in October 1943 and burned the corpses in the school's boiler room . On June 20, 1944, members of the SS murdered 42 partisans in the Fondotoce district. To commemorate those who were murdered, there is a memorial park in Fondotoce, the Parco della Memoria e della Pace . It houses a memorial center, the Casa della Resistenza di Fondotoce .

Attractions

Verbania-Pallanza Botanical Garden
  • Oratory of San Remigio, first mentioned in the 11th century (national monument)
  • Church of Madonna di Campagna, built in Renaissance style in the first half of the 16th century by the architect Giovanni Beretta from Brissago TI , (National Monument )
  • Basilica San Vittore, built at the beginning of the 17th century, preserves an imposing organ by the Serassi company from Bergamo , built at the end of the 18th century
  • Chiesa collegiata di San Leonardo, built between 1535 and 1590, preserves the organ by Eugenio Biroldi from 1797
  • Parish Church of Santo Stefano, preserves the Ara delle Matrone , a Roman stone made of Candoglia marble from the beginning of the 1st century AD.
  • Oratorio Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano
  • Palazzo Viani Dugnani, built in the second half of the 17th century in baroque style
  • The botanical garden of Villa Taranto is mostly located on the Punta della Castagnola headland, which separates Intra from Pallanza. The climate on the southern part of Lake Maggiore and the love of nature of a Scottish knight, Captain Neil MacEacharn (buried in a mausoleum in the park in 1964) made it possible. The now world-famous garden was built in Verbania in the 1930s. More than 20,000 plants can be seen here on a 16 hectare park area. Part of the garden was destroyed by a tornado in summer 2012.
The memorial plaque from Bernhard Riemann

The German mathematician Bernhard Riemann is buried in the cemetery in the district of Biganzolo , whose Riemann hypothesis is one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics (No. 8 of the Hilbert problems , No. 6 of the Millennium problems ).

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 12193 13025 14785 17584 20039 22315 26003 29810 34649 30517 30128 30332 30709

Town twinning

  • FranceFrance Bourg-de-Péage , Département Drôme in south-eastern France between Grenoble and Marseille
  • CroatiaCroatia Crikvenica , Croatia
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom East Grinstead , a small southwestern English town with around 25,000 inhabitants in West Sussex
  • GermanyGermany Mindelheim , district town of the Unterallgäu district in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia
  • SpainSpain Sant Feliu de Guíxols , Spain , linked to Verbania by an official town twinning agreement since 1994. The friendly relations arose through the mutual French twin town of Bourg-de-Péage.
  • AustriaAustria Schwaz : The Austrian Schwaz is east of Innsbruck.
Frescoes from the Oratory of San Rocco in the Museo del Paesaggio

traffic

Verbania is connected to long-distance traffic in its west by the Verbania-Pallanza station on the Domodossola – Milan railway line and by the A26 autostrada . The Strada Statale 34 del Lago Maggiore runs right through the city.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Katharina Moriggi (1437–1478), blessed, founder of the order
  • Giorgio Andreoli , sometimes called Maestro Giorgio da Gubbio (* between 1465 and 1470 in Intra, Lake Maggiore, † 1553 in Gubbio), Italian sculptor, potter and majolica painter
  • Daniele Ranzoni (born December 3, 1843 in Intra; † October 20, 1889 ibid), painter of the Scapigliatura
  • Paolo Troubetzkoy (* 1866 in Intra; † 1938 in Suna), sculptor
  • Luigi Zappelli (born January 1, 1886 in Vignone (Piedmont), † August 9, 1948 in Lausanne ), politician, anti-fascist, mayor of Verbania.
  • Raffaele Cadorna the Younger (born September 12, 1889 in Pallanza, † 1973 ibid), Italian general
  • Antonio Dal Masetto (* 1938 in Intra; † 2015 in Buenos Aires), Argentine writer and journalist
  • Filippo Ganna (* 1996), cyclist

Other personalities

  • István Türr (German also Stephan Türr; born August 11, 1825 in Baja , † May 3, 1908 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian insurgent, engineer and politician. He liked to live in the Villa Rusconi-Clerici
  • Emma Morano (1899–2017), the oldest living person from May 2016, lived in Verbania

Web links

Commons : Verbania  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Fondotoce on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 29, 2015
  3. ↑ see under web links
  4. ^ Report by Swiss television about the destruction in the garden of Villa Taranto , accessed on September 26, 2012
  5. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giorgio Andreoli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 22, 2016 (2011/2015).
  6. ↑ Paolo Troubestzkoy on ticinarte.ch
  7. ↑ Mauro Cerutti: Luigi Zappelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 18, 2012 , accessed December 15, 2019 .