Cannero Riviera is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

with a population of 1,073 and an area of 14.46 km²
in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola is the northernmost province in the Italian region of Piedmont. It was created in 1996 through the fusion of three distinct regions which had previously been part of the Province of Novara...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

. The settlement is situated on the western shore of Lago Maggiore; it is about 130 km northeast of Turin

Turin

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 and about 15 km northeast of Verbania

Verbania

Verbania is a city and comune on the shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, in northwest Italy, about north-west of Milan and about from Locarno in Switzerland.-Overview:...

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Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano

Aurano

Aurano is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 130 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km northeast of Verbania...

, Cannobio

Cannobio

Cannobio is a town and comune on Lago Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy.-History:The local inhabitants probably became subject to Roman rule by the time of the emperor Augustus. Sarcophagi from the 2nd-3rd century CE have been found and conserved in the "Palazzo della Ragione".The first documented...

, Oggebbio

Oggebbio

Oggebbio is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 130 km northeast of Turin and about 11 km northeast of Verbania....

, Trarego Viggiona

Trarego Viggiona

Trarego Viggiona is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 130 km northeast of Turin and about 15 km north of Verbania...

; and across the lake in the Lombard

Lombardy

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 Province of Varese

Province of Varese

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: Brezzo di Bedero

Brezzo di Bedero

Brezzo di Bedero is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 70 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km northwest of Varese....

, Germignaga

Germignaga

Germignaga is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 70 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km northwest of Varese...

, Luino

Luino

Luino is a small town and comune near the border with Switzerland on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, in the Province of Varese ....

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The nineteenth-century politician Massimo D’Azeglio spent his last years in his villa here.

External links

• www.cannero.it/
• Official Tourism Gateway Lake Maggiore Official Tourism Gateway
  • Cannero Riviera