Intra, Italy

Intra
Frazione
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB)
Comune	Verbania
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Intra is a frazione of the municipality of Verbania, in Piedmont, northern Italy, located in a small alluvial plain. It is important for its port on Lake Maggiore and attendant tourism. In Intra in 1905 was founded Zust, an Italian car manufacturing company, by engineer Roberto Züst, an Italian industrialist of Swiss origin,^[1] In 1909^[2] was founded a rowing club, Canottieri Intra. The main church is a basilica dedicated to San Vittore. The basilica di San Vittore was rebuilt during the first decade of the eighteenth century.

History

Intra's area has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The oldest known population living in the area were the Lepontii.,^[3] then it was added to the Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus in the first century AD. During Middle Age was under the control of Conti di Biandrate, after the comune of Novara^[4] and then Duchy of Milan. Intra was an autonomous comune, in 1927 were merged to it Arizzano Inferiore, Trobaso and Zoverallo, in 1929 Unchio, then in 1939 Intra itself was merged with Pallanza to form Verbania under the royal decree n. 702 of 4 April 1939.^[5]

Notable people

Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1908

• Giorgio Andreoli (c. 1465 – 1553), an important potter in the Italian Renaissance.
• Luigi Capello (1859–1941, an Italian general, fought in the Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) and World War I.
• Daniele Ranzoni (1843–1889), an Italian portrait painter
• Guido Sutermeister (1883-1964), an Italian engineer and archaeologist.
• Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866—1938), an Italian impressionist sculptor of Russian origin

Sport

• Sergio Bello (born 1942), an Italian former sprinter
• Giambattista Bonis (born 1926), an Italian former football striker.
• Paolo Carraro (born 1964), an Italian former sprint canoeist

Gallery

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  The main church, San Vittore
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  Vecchio Imbarcadero Liberty
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  Old tramway station

References

1. Charles Lam Markmann; Mark Sherwin (2014). The Book of Sports Cars – (United States and Italy. Edizioni Savine. ISBN 9788896365465. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
2. "Chi Siamo – la nostra storia". www.canottieriintra.it. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
3. Direzione comunicazione istituzionale dell'assemblea regionale, Comuni della provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, 2012
4. "Intra nell'Enciclopedia Treccani".
5. Emmanuel III, Victor (4 April 1939). R.D. 4 aprile 1939, n. 702 – Riunione dei comuni di Intra e di Pallanza, in provincia di Novara, in un unico Comune denominato "Verbania"  [RD 4 April 1939, n. 702 – Meeting of the municipalities of Intra and Pallanza, in the province of Novara, in a single municipality called "Verbania"] (in Italian) – via Wikisource.

External links

Media related to Intra (Verbania) at Wikimedia Commons