Ascona

Ascona is a Commune Switzerland Canton of Tessin.

Geography

Small village of fishermen located at the edge of the Lake Maggiore, Ascona changed, at the beginning of the XXe century, in a tourist resort society man and cultural, appreciated by the intellectual artists come from North.

Ascona occupies a symmetrical site with that of Locarno compared to the delta of the Maggia.

History

Inhabited since prehistory, Ascona was in the Middle Ages a significant market protected by four castles now disappeared.

A score of tombs belonging to a necropolis of the time between the Bronze Age and that of Iron were updated in 1950.

Towards 1250, two famous Milanese families, Carcani and Griglioni, were established in Ascona after having flees the capital lombarde because of the disorders which reigned there.

Confédérés controlled Ascona starting from 1513. In 1803, the canton of the Tessin entered the Confederation.

Verità Goes up

Verità Goes up is a hill located above Ascona. At the end of the XIXe century, an small group of people taken along by the industrialist Belgian Henry Oedenkoven and his partner, the pianist and feminist German Ida Hoffman, bought the hill. The founders practiced there then a life close to nature, vegetarian and nudist, preaching the free love openly.

They remained on Assembles Verità until in 1920 and left then for the Brésil. The hill then became the meeting place of famous thinkers and artists, like Hermann Hesse or Erich Müsham.

In 1989, was created the Foundation Assembles Verità, in collaboration with the federal Polytechnic school of Zurich which exploits from now on a scientific center organizing seminars regularly.

Transport

Demonstrations

  • musical Weeks of Ascona Site of the festival
  • JazzAscona, jazz festival New Orleans Site of the festival
  • Ticino Musica, international contest for young musicians Site of the contest

Schools

  • religious College Papio, built in 1584 and sheltering one of most beautiful the courses of Renaissance style of Switzerland Site of the college

Personalities

  • Charlotte Bara, dancer Biography in the historical Dictionary of Switzerland
  • Boris Luban-Plozza, professor of medicine, founder of the center of Balint international meetings, in Ascona
  • Erich Müsham, anarchistic writer
  • Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, architect
  • Carl Weidemeyer, artist
  • Wladimir Vogel, type-setter
  • Eduard von der Heydt, banker and philantrope Biography in the historical Dictionary of Switzerland
  • Ursula von the Wiese, woman of letters, author of " Neun in Ascona" , a book which made scandal
  • Mary Wigman, dancer
  • Helmut Zacharias, German violonist

Curiosities

  • communal Museum of modern art
  • Museum Epper
  • Church Santa Maria of the Mercy, built between 1399 and 1442, which preserves one of the cycles of frescos the most important tardo-Gothics of Switzerland
  • Maison Serodine, built towards 1620

External bonds

  • Ascona in the historical Dictionary of Switzerland

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