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Revision as of 14:29, 20 August 2008
Ascona | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Ascona  | |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | Ticino |
| District | Locarno |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.95 km2 (1.91 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 196 m (643 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2018)[2] | |
| • Total | 5,479 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
| Postal code(s) | 6612 |
| SFOS number | 5091 |
| ISO 3166 code | CH-TI |
| Surrounded by | Brissago, Intragna, Locarno, Losone, Ronco sopra Ascona, San Nazzaro |
| Website | www SFSO statistics |
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.
External links
- Ascona in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- 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 Tourism Information
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- ^ a b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.