Intra | |
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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.