Region
The region Lake Maggiore consists of three regions: Lombardy (Italy), Piemont (Italy) and Ticino (Switzerland).
| Lombardy |
 (Latin:
Langobardia, Italian: Lombardia, Western Lombard: Lumbardìa, Eastern
Lombard: Lombardia) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy.The capital is
Milan, the second largest city is Brescia. One-sixth of Italy's population
lives in Lombardy and about one fourth of Italy's GDP is produced in
this Region. The language are Italian and Western Lombard or Eastern
Lombard. The region lies between the Lago Maggiore, Po and Lago di Garda. |
| Piemont |
 (Italian:
Piemonte; Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont; French: Piémont) is the
largest region in Italy.It has an area of 25,399 km² and a population
of 4.4 million. The capital is Turin, the local language is Piedmontese.
Piedmons means in italian "at the foot of the mountains". |
| Ticino |
 Ticino
or Canton Ticino (French and German: Tessin) is the southernmost canton
of Switzerland. The written language is Italian in almost the entire
canton (except the Walser municipality of Bosco Gurin, where it is German).
It surrounds the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia at the Lago di
Lugano. Together with areas of the canton of Graubünden it makes up
the so-called Svizzera Italiana (Italian Switzerland). Lombard dialects
(Ticinese) are still spoken, especially in the valleys, but they have
no official status. It is named after the Ticino river. |
