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Encyclopedia > Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola
Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
Nation Italy
Region Piedmont
Capital Verbania
Area 2,255 km²
Population (2001) 158,941
Density 70
Comuni 77
Vehicle Registration VB
Postal Code Verbania: 28921-28925, Other areas: 28811-28897
Telephone Prefix 0321, 0322, 0323, 0324
ISTAT 103
President Paolo Ravaioli
Map highlighting the location of the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in Italy

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (Italian: Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola) is the northernmost province in the Italian region of Piedmont. It was created in 1996 out of the Province of Novara. Its capital is the city of Verbania. It has an area of 2,255 km², and a total population of 159,040 (2001). There are 77 comuni in the province ([1]). Image File history File links Provincia_del_Verbano_Cusio_Ossola-Stemma. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... For other uses, see Piedmont (disambiguation). ... Verbania is a city and comune (commune) on the shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont in northwest Italy. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... Present Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with small blue side-fields on the right and left (see European vehicle registration plates). ... Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) is the Italian national statistical institute, roughly corresponding to the United States Census Bureau. ... In Italy, a province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... For other uses, see Piedmont (disambiguation). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Novara (It. ... Verbania is a city and comune (commune) on the shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont in northwest Italy. ... In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ...

Map of the province
Map of the province


External links

  • Official website
  • Portale del Lago Maggiore - a portal run by the local Trading Chamber


Europe | Italy | Piedmont (Piemonte)
Alessandria | Asti | Biella | Cuneo | Novara | Turin (Torino) | Verbano-Cusio-Ossola | Vercelli



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Piedmont · Comuni of the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Antrona Schieranco | Anzola d'Ossola | Arizzano | Arola | Aurano | Baceno | Bannio Anzino | Baveno | Bee | Belgirate | Beura-Cardezza | Bognanco | Brovello-Carpugnino | Calasca-Castiglione | Cambiasca | Cannero Riviera | Cannobio | Caprezzo | Casale Corte Cerro | Cavaglio-Spoccia | Ceppo Morelli | Cesara | Cossogno | Craveggia | Crevoladossola | Crodo | Cursolo-Orasso | Domodossola | Druogno | Falmenta | Formazza | Germagno | Ghiffa | Gignese | Gravellona Toce | Gurro | Intragna | Loreglia | Macugnaga | Madonna del Sasso | Malesco | Masera | Massiola | Mergozzo | Miazzina | Montecrestese | Montescheno | Nonio | Oggebbio | Omegna | Ornavasso | Pallanzeno | Piedimulera | Pieve Vergonte | Premeno | Premia | Premosello-Chiovenda | Quarna Sopra | Quarna Sotto | Re | San Bernardino Verbano | Santa Maria Maggiore | Seppiana | Stresa | Toceno | Trarego Viggiona | Trasquera | Trontano | Valstrona | Vanzone con San Carlo | Varzo | Verbania | Viganella | Vignone | Villadossola | Villette | Vogogna Image File history File links Provincia_del_Verbano_Cusio_Ossola-Stemma. ... For other uses, see Piedmont (disambiguation). ... In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... Arola is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 20 km southwest of Verbania. ... Baveno, a town of Piedmont, Italy, on the west shore of Lago Maggiore, 13 miles North West of Arona by rail. ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) Mayor Elevation m Area 8. ... Bognanco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 120 km northeast of Turin and about 35 km northwest of Verbania, on the border with Switzerland. ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) Mayor Elevation m Area 14. ... Cannobio is a town in Piedmont, Italy. ... Domodossola is a city in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the region of Piedmont, Italy, earlier known as Oscela, Oscella, Oscella dei Leponzi, Ossolo, Ossola Lepontiorum, and Domo dOssola (because its in the Ossola valley). ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) Mayor Elevation 201 m Area 13. ... Comune in Northern Italy, in the Verbano-Cusio-Osoola province, in the region of Piedmont, known for its mine (Miniera della Guia). ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) Mayor Elevation m Area 20. ... Santuario di Re Re is a village in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the region of Piedmont, Italy, approximately 20km from Domodossola and 7km from the border with Switzerland. ... Stresa, as seen from the Borromean Islands Stresa is a small town of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago (Lake) Maggiore, in the region of Piedmont in Italy. ... Verbania is a city and comune (commune) on the shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont in northwest Italy. ... Viganella Viganella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 120 km northeast of Turin and about 30 km northwest of Verbania. ...


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Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province tourist information (277 words)
This small and mountainous province is the northernmost in the Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) and often abbreviated as VCO.  It actually shares a larger border with Switzerland than the rest of Italy and is home to nearly as many speakers of German and French as Italian. 
The southeastern border of the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province is formed by the banks of the massive Alpine lake of Lake Maggiore that is bordered by several provinces. 
As such, other than the ski resorts in the north and vacation spots in the south, the province is rather sparsely populated, in sharp contrast with Turin to the south and west.
Ossola: Information from Answers.com (249 words)
Ossola is an area of Italy situated North of the Lago Maggiore.
It is composed of one main valley (the Ossola proper) and seven side valleys: Anzasca, Antrona, Bognanco, Divedro, Antigorio-Formazza, Isorno e Vigezzo.
One of the main centers of the Ossola area is Domodossola.
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