Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore is a large lake on the south side of the Alps, mostly in the Italian Lake District and the northern part in Switzerland. The west side of the Italian part is in the Piedmont region and the east side in Lombardy.Photo: Corradox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Italy and Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lac de Locarno”, “Lacus Verbano”, “Lago Maggiore”, “Lake of Locarno”, “Lake Verbano”, “Verbannus”, and “Verbano”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Castelli di Cannero and Luino railway station.
Castelli di Cannero
Castle
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The Castelli di Cannero are three rocky islets of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. They are located off the shoreline of Cannero Riviera while administratively forming part of the Comune of Cannobio.
Luino railway station
Railway station
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Luino railway station is a border railway station in Italy. It divides the Swiss network with the Italian one. Luino is a frontier station between the Italian network, managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, and the Swiss network, managed by Swiss Federal Railways.
Palazzo Verbania
Historic building
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Palazzo Verbania is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luino and Maccagno.
Luino
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Luino is a small town and comune near the border with Switzerland on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, in the province of Varese, in the Italian region of Lombardy.
Maccagno
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Maccagno was a comune of 2,000 inhabitants located in the province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located in the Val Veddasca about 70 km northwest of Milan and about 25 km northwest of Varese.
Cannobio
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Cannobio is a town on Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy. It lies at the end of the Cannobina Valley on the west side of the lake. The municipality shares a border with Switzerland and the town is 10 minutes from the border.
Lake Maggiore
- Categories: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland and body of water
- Location: Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Lake Maggiore” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liqeni Maggiore”
- Arabic: “بحيرة ماجيوري”
- Armenian: “Լագո Մաջորե”
- Arpitan: “Lèc Major”
- Arpitan: “Lèc mayor”
- Asturian: “Llagu Mayor”
- Basque: “Maggiore”
- Belarusian: “Лага-Маджорэ”
- Bengali: “হ্রদ ম্যাগিয়োর”
- Breton: “Lenn Maggiore”
- Bulgarian: “Лаго Маджоре”
- Catalan: “Llac Maggiore”
- Cebuano: “Lago Maggiore (lanaw sa Swisa)”
- Cebuano: “Lago Maggiore”
- Chinese: “馬焦雷湖”
- Chinese: “马焦雷湖”
- Chuvash: “Лаго-Маджоре”
- Croatian: “Maggiore”
- Czech: “Lago Maggiore”
- Danish: “Lago Maggiore”
- Danish: “Verbano”
- Dutch: “Lago Maggiore”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ماجيورى”
- Esperanto: “Majora lago”
- Esperanto: “Majora Lago”
- Estonian: “Lago Maggiore”
- Finnish: “Maggiorejärvi”
- French: “lac Majeur”
- French: “Lac Majeur”
- French: “Verbano”
- Galician: “Lago Maior”
- Georgian: “ლაგო-მაჯორე”
- German: “Lago Maggiore”
- German: “Langensee”
- Gilaki: “ماجيؤره دریاچه”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ματζόρε”
- Hebrew: “אגם מאג’ורה”
- Hebrew: “אגם מאגורה”
- Hungarian: “Lago Maggiore”
- Icelandic: “Maggiore-vatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Maggiore”
- Italian: “Lago di Locarno”
- Italian: “lago Maggiore”
- Italian: “Lago Maggiore”
- Italian: “Lago Verbano”
- Italian: “Verbano”
- Japanese: “マッジョーレ湖”
- Kirghiz: “Лаго-Мажоре”
- Korean: “마조레호”
- Latin: “Verbanus lacus”
- Latvian: “Lago Madžore”
- Latvian: “Madžores ezers”
- Limburgan: “Lago Maggiore”
- Lithuanian: “Madžorė”
- Lombard: “Lagh Maggior”
- Luxembourgish: “Lago Maggiore”
- Macedonian: “Маџоре”
- Mingrelian: “ლაგო-მაჯორე”
- Northern Frisian: “Lago Maggiore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lago Maggiore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maggioresjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lago Maggiore”
- Norwegian: “Maggioresjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه ماجوره”
- Persian: “دریاچه ماجیوره”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Magior”
- Polish: “Jezioro Maggiore”
- Polish: “Lago Maggiore”
- Polish: “Maggiore”
- Polish: “Verbano”
- Portuguese: “Lago Maior”
- Romanian: “Lacul Maggiore”
- Romansh: “Lago Maggiore”
- Russian: “Лаго-Маджоре”
- Scots: “Loch Maggiore”
- Serbian: “Мађоре”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maggiore”
- Sicilian: “Lacu Maggiuri”
- Slovak: “Lago Maggiore”
- Slovenian: “jezero Maggiore”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Maggiore”
- Slovenian: “Lago Maggiore”
- Spanish: “Lago Mayor”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Maggiore”
- Swedish: “Lago Maggiore”
- Swedish: “Lago Verbano”
- Swiss German: “Lago Maggiore”
- Swiss German: “Langesee”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบมัจจอเร”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบมัจโจเร”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบแวร์บาโน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Langensee”
- Turkish: “Maggiore Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Маджоре”
- Urdu: “جھیل ماجیوری”
- Venetian: “Łago Magiór”
- Venetian: “Lago Major”
- Venetian: “Łago Major”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Maggiore”
- Welsh: “lago Maggiore”
- Welsh: “Lago Maggiore”
- Welsh: “llyn Maggiore”
- Welsh: “Llyn Maggiore”
- Wu Chinese: “马焦雷湖”
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