"Intrum" was its old name when the Romans founded the town, because it’s located between the 2 streams San Bernardino and San Giovanni.
In the nineteenth century the town was nicknamed, "the little Italian Manchester" because of the strong industrialisation; Here, the first Italian cotton spinning factory was founded in 1808. Industrial factories were everywhere, especially textiles and mechanics, like the Zuest industry that produced luxury automobiles.. and also hat factories, hydroelectric industries, paper mills and much more.
Today Intra has become a commercial and tourist city, full of boutiques of all kinds, a real shopping town, especially appreciated on Saturday, market day.
There are, beyond the torrent, the old red chimneys in contrast with the new and modern theatre "il Maggiore" a futuristic art work, built in 2015, that surprises people arriving here for the first time.
Accompanied by your guide, passing the fashionable shop windows and the narrow streets of the medieval village, you will discover the historical nucleus around the emblem of the city, the Basilica of Saint Victor. Surrounded by the surviving ditches, very important for the activities of the past, the basilica merits to be seen.
You will also visit with the guide, the old port, the lakefront, Palazzo Flaim and the column, nicely called by locals the "culona", which survived the big flood of 1868.
At the end of the guided tour, you will have time to have a look at the Ranzoni square with its fashion streets.
The visit of the city has no entry costs.