How to get to Verbania?
Verbania is a municipality that includes the villages of Pallanza and Intra. It is located on the norther shore of Lake Maggiore, Piedmont region, northwestern Italy. The conference will be held at the Conference Centre Il Maggiore.
By air: The nearest international airport is Milano Malpensa, with direct bus service to Verbania (17 Euro, 6 busses a day), 90 minutes trip, additional info here, booking needed via this website.
By car: The nearest motorway exit is Gravellona Toce on the E62 between Milano and Domodossola.
By rail: The Verbania-Pallanza station is on the Simplon railway line Milano-Domodossola-Brig and from Domodossola Eurocity trains go to Bern/Basel/Lausanne/Geneva. Book trains on the Trenitalia website or the Swiss Railway website.
Further details on how to reach Verbania by public transports are given below.
Unfortunately, until 09 September 2024, the train line between Domodossola in the north of Verbania-Pallanza and Arona in the south is interrupted. The train is replaced by a bus and every train arriving in Domodossola and Arona has a connection with the replacement bus (trenitalia website).
In Domodossola, the replacement bus leaves from the parking to the right of the main entrance to the station. The replacement bus from Domodossola and Arona will leave you at the Verbania-Pallanza station without going through the villages of Pallanza or Intra.
From Arona train station, there is also (more convenient) a S.A.F. local bus that goes to Verbania village (Pallanza and Intra, 50 minute trip), which runs every hour from 07:15 to 19:15, see timetable here.
Warning: The Verbania-Pallanza station is 9 km out of town and the local bus (Line 1) runs every 30-60 minutes from the station to Pallanza and Intra, a 15-25 minute trip. The local bus station is NOT the one at the front of the station where the bus that replaces the train stops, but at the back of the station, using the underpass, in front of the multi-storey car park.
Timetable of the Line 1 can be found here (the latest timetable for Line 1 to be checked regularly is available as pdf here). The bus direction Intra-Pallanza runs every xx:00 and xx:30 from 8:00 to 20:00 except at 12:00 and with extra services at 5:53, 6:45, 7:25, 18:45, 19:45, 20:48, 21:53 and 23:00. The Sunday timetable is reduced to buses every hour at xx:30.
We will provide a shuttle minibus/taxi from Verbania-Pallanza station to your hotel on Saturday 31/08 and on Monday 02/09 in the afternoon. To take advantage of this service, please email contact_granulite@sfmc-fr.org at least one day in advance with your arrival time at Verbania-Pallanza.
Alternatively, see the taxi service information below. A taxi from Vebania-Pallanza station to Intra will cost 25-30 Euros.
Around town: A bus is running between the Pallanza and Intra Village (Line 2); the closest stop to the Conference Centre Il Maggiore is “Intra Imbarcadero Nuovo”, 8 minutes walk. The timetable can be found here.
Taxi service: Taxi Bruno Verbania +39 377 464 7803; TaxiVerde +39 348 263 7871; Taxi NCC including transfer Verbania Milano Malpensa +39 392 925 3007; Taxi NCC Pallanza di Gianluca Mezzano +39 338 967 4324.