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It is the greatest industrial-commercial
centre of Lago Maggiore, built in 1939 through the unification of Intra,
Pallanza and some coastal centres like Fondotoce and Suna to other small
villages of the hinterland. Suna, with its old medieval complex, is situated
at the feet of Monte Rosso. Pallanza, small town of Roman origins, stands
in a wonderful panoramic position with its villas, gardens and parks; it
is a well-attended holiday resort as well as a seat of various industrial
activities which flourish also inland.
The central Piazza Garibaldi, overlooking
the gulf, offers wonderful - as aforsaid - panoramic views: on your right
you will find Feriolo, in front of you Baveno and Stresa dominated by Mottarone,
up to the Borromee Isles (Isola Madre and Isola dei Pescatori), approacheable
after a ten-minute navigation. The Small isle of San Giovanni is situated
very near the bank, almost in front of the park with the Kursaal. The isle
was already known through a Church which stood there in the Xlth century.
Through the thick vegetation you can see the Palace, built in the XVlllth
century which became later property of the Borromeos and for some decades
the holiday residence of the composer and musician Arturo Toscanini. The
Viani-Dugnani Palace, restored in late-baroque style during the first decades
of the XVIIIth century, rose in Pallanza, at the end of the important Via
Cavour (here known with the name of Ruga). This palace houses the Historic
Artistic Museum of Verbania and its surroundings, the Museum of Landscape,
which rose in 1909, and the collection of sculptures and mouldings by Paolo
Trubetzkoj, an artist of Russian origin who is also the author of the monuments
and the busts in Pallanza. An internationally renowned course of flowered
carts is held every year in September.
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