Ascona

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Coordinates: 46°09′N, 8°46′E

Ascona
Coat of Arms of Ascona
Canton Ticino
District Locarno
Coordinates  46°09′N, 8°46′E
Population 5057   (December 2002)
Area 5.0 km²
Elevation 196 m
Postal code 6612
SFOS number 5091
Website www.ascona.ch
Ascona (Switzerland)
Ascona
Ascona

Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

It has a population of about 5000 and is located on the shore of Lake Maggiore.

The town is a popular tourist destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the New Orleans Jazz Festival Ascona.

Lake Maggiore with Ascona in the foreground
Lake Maggiore with Ascona in the foreground

[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.

Ascona from a balcony
Ascona from a balcony

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