Monte Verità
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The Monte Verità (literally Hill of Truth) in Ascona (Swiss canton of Ticino) has an interesting place in cultural history: at the beginning of the twentieth century, a colony was founded which preached the return to nature.
The colonists: abhorred private property, practised a rigid code of morality, strict vegetarianism and nudism. They rejected convention in marriage and dress, party politics and dogmas: they were tolerantly intolerant. (Walter Segal [1])
Many artists, anarchists 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, Carlo Mense, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Max Picard, Ernst Toller, Henry van de Velde, Fanny von Reventlow, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam, Walter Segal and Gustav Stresemann.
A fictionalized version of the colony at Monte Verità is the subject of a short story named "Monte Verità" by the Cornish author Daphne du Maurier.
Monte Verità today is home to an elite conference facility.
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