Intra, Italy

Intra
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CountryItaly
RegionPiedmont
ProvinceVerbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB)
ComuneVerbania
Time zoneUTC+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.

  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.