Ascona ( Italian. Ascona ) is a commune in the south of Switzerland . Located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino .
| City | |||
| Ascona | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascona | |||
| |||
| A country |  Switzerland | ||
| Canton | Ticino | ||
| District | Locarno | ||
| History and geography | |||
| Square | 4.97 km² | ||
| Center height | |||
| Timezone | UTC + 1 , in the summer UTC + 2 | ||
| Population | |||
| Population | 5,488 people ( 2009 ) | ||
| Official language | Italian | ||
| Digital identifiers | |||
| Telephone code | +41 91 | ||
| Postcode | |||
| Car code | Ti | ||
| ascona.ch (ital.) | |||
Content
General data
Ascona is located in southeastern Switzerland, in the region of Isola , Locarno District , in the canton of Ticino . The area of the city is 4.97 km². The population is 5488 people (as of December 2009 ). Resort. The overwhelming majority of people are Italo - Swiss .
Geography and culture
Ascona lies on the north-west coast of Lake Maggiore , near the mouth of the river Maggio , in close proximity to the border with Italy . It is located at an altitude of 196 meters above sea level.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Monte Verità hill, on which Ascona is located, played a special role in the cultural life of Europe . Here, from all over the continent and from America, utopians and various “improvers of the world” were gathered, speeches were held, lectures were given and ideas about establishing a kingdom of love, freedom, vegetarianism and public property were expressed. Anarchists were especially active [1] .
Every year in Ascona, the famous Novo-Orleans jazz festival takes place in summer.
In the 1980s, a car tunnel was laid under the Monte Veritas to protect the old center of Ascona from numerous transit and tourist vehicles.
Attractions
- Cathedral of San Pietro and Paolo (beginning of the 17th century)
- Church of Santa Maria della Misericordia (early 16th century)
- Papal College ( 1602 )
- Ruins of the castle of San Maturno
Famous townspeople
- Abondio, Antonio (nickname - Ascanio) - sculptor.
- Berno, Pietro - Catholic martyr , missionary in India .
- Bissier, Julius - the artist.
- Verevkina, Marianna Vladimirovna - expressionist artist.
- Desny, Ivan is an actor.
- Nieuwengeis, Dohmer Dohler - Dutch artist, graphic artist.
- Pisoni, Gaetano Matteo - the architect.
- Remark Erich Maria - a writer.
- James Hadley Chase is a writer.
- Wrangel, Ferdinand Ferdinandovich - Russian sailor, hydrograph, meteorologist, historian, participant of the Russian-Turkish war.
- Helm, Brigitte - German actress (“Metropolis” - 1926, dir. Fritz Lang).
Notes
- ↑ Nadezhda Sikorskaya . Monet Verità: Expressionist Utopia , Our Newspaper (April 15, 2016).