Ascona
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| Canton | Ticino |
| District | Locarno |
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| Population | 5057 (December 2002) |
| Area | 5.0 km² |
| Elevation | 196 m |
| Postal code | 6612 |
| SFOS number | 5091 |
| Website | www.ascona.ch |
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- For the car, see Opel Ascona
Ascona is a town of some 5,000 people in southern Switzerland, on the shore of Lake Maggiore in the canton of Ticino.
The town is a popular tourism destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the New Orleans Jazz Festival Ascona.
[edit] Monte Verità
The "Monte Verità" (literally Hill of Truth) in Ascona has an important historical background: at the beginning of the 20th century, a colony was founded which preached the return to nature (see [1] para. 35).
A large number of artist, anarchist and other famous people have been attracted by this hill, e.g. Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stephan George, Isadora Duncan, Carl Eugen Keel, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Max Piccard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Fanny von Reventlow, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam and Gustav Stresemann.
[edit] External links
- Der Monte Verità in Ascona
- Der "Heilige Berg" Monte Verità
- Museo comunale d’arte moderna Ascona
- www.ascona.ch
- www.maggiore.ch
- New Orleans Jazz Festival
Ascona | Borgnone | Brione (Verzasca) | Brione sopra Minusio | Brissago | Caviano | Cavigliano | Contone | Corippo | Cugnasco | Frasco | Gerra (Gambarogno) | Gerra (Verzasca) | Gordola | Gresso | Indemini | Intragna | Isorno | Lavertezzo | Locarno | Losone | Magadino | Mergoscia | Minusio | Mosogno | Muralto | Onsernone | Orselina | Palagnedra | Piazzogna | Ronco sopra Ascona | San Nazzaro | Sant'Abbondio | Sonogno | Tegna | Tenero-Contra | Vergeletto | Verscio | Vira (Gambarogno) | Vogorno
Ticino | Districts of Canton Ticino | Municipalities of the canton of Ticino
