Insubrica region
The Comunità di lavoro Regio Insubrica (German: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regio Insubrica ) is an association under private law in accordance with the Madrid Declaration of 1980 on cross-border cooperation, with the aim of cooperation and integration in the region of the Italian-Swiss pre-Alpine lakes ( Lake Como , Lake Lugano , Lake Maggiore ). The community, founded in 1995, includes the provinces of Varese , Como , Verbano-Cusio-Ossola , Lecco , Novara and the Swiss canton of Ticino . The region covers the area on the border between Switzerland and Italy , where Italian and West Lombard dialects are spoken.
The current symbol of the region consists of six pictograms with the first letters of the founding regions of the region (in the order Ticino, Province of Como, Province of Varese, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola) in Lepontic spelling (Lugano alphabet).
Individual references, comments
- ↑ The provinces of Lecco and Novara have been associated since 1997 and became members in 2007