Cannero Riviera ([cÃÂ n-ne-ro]; in Western Lombard CÃÂ ner), is a comune (an Italian municipality) with a population of 973 and an area of in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region of Piedmont. The settlement is situated on the western shore of Lago Maggiore; it is about northeast of Turin about northeast of Verbania and a similar distance from the Italian-speaking, Swiss Canton known as the Ticino.
Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano, Cannobio, Oggebbio, Trarego Viggiona; and across the lake in the Lombard Province of Varese: Brezzo di Bedero, Germignaga, Luino.
The 19th-century politician Massimo DâÂÂAzeglio spent his last years in his villa here.
ISTAT data recorded on January 1, 2011, show that there were 107 foreign residents, as follows: