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.

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 on it which preached the return to nature (see [1] para. 35).

The colony attracted a large number of artists, anarchists and other famous people, including Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stefan George, Isadora Duncan, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Max Picard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam and Gustav Stresemann.

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Ascona-Locarno
19 November 2012
Welcome to Ascona, the pearl of Lake Maggiore! From here you will enjoy a beautiful view on the Brissago Islands (open: end of March - end of October)
Wendy Petrik-Carroll
3 October 2017
Great town. Walk alone the water and explore the side streets. Great restaurants, shops and cocktails!
Dan Mondragón Somera
24 October 2020
Beautiful place inside Switzerland to get away from Switzerland itself. Feels more like Italy!
Guy Malacrida
26 July 2013
Nice, sunny but mostly focused on German, Swiss German, families and"older"people.
Nicole Gast
9 September 2014
Nice, but mostly older people with dogs around. A 7-euro- trip with the city train (" zügli") is funny, but not interesting. Nothing for shopaholics, the little outlet center is still expensive.
Heba ????
4 September 2021
A dreamy beautiful place
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