Ascona
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| canton: | Tessin |
| district: | Locarno |
| BFS NR.: | 5091 |
| postal code: | 6612 |
| coordinates: | 46° 9 ' n. Break. 8° 46 ' o. L. |
| Height: | 196 m and. M. |
| Surface: | 5,0 km ² |
| inhabitants: | 5285 (31. December 2004) |
| Website: | www.ascona.ch |
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Ascona is a municipality in the circle Isole, district Locarno of the canton Tessin in Switzerland. The earlier German name Aschgunen is not no more used today.
The health resort is because of the north bank of the long lake (Lago Maggiore), westernthe Maggia - Deltas. Each year in the summer takes place in the roads of Ascona the well-known „new Orleans jazz festival “. After the place Ascona is designated the OPEL Ascona.
The hill over Ascona is the Monte Verità, that in the first half 20.Century a great cultural importance possessed. On the Monte Verità collected themselves the Aussteiger and world-better and announced love, Vegetarismus, free in a singular mixture, Anthroposophie, anarchy and communist ideas.
personalities
- Pietro Berno (1552-1583), as martyrs of blessed-spoken Jesuit and India missionar,born in Ascona (its head is kept in the parish church by Ascona, during its remaining body in the cathedral buried by Velha Goa lies)
- Gaetano Matteo Pisoni (1713-1782), architect, born in Ascona
- Paolo Antonio Pisoni (1738-1804), architect, born in Ascona
Web on the left of
| Wikinews: Ascona - current message |
- official Website of the municipality Ascona
- article Ascona in the historical encyclopedia of Switzerland
- Lago Maggiore tourist information
- new Orleans jazz festival
- Museo comunale D' arte moderna Ascona (on Italian)
- information Lugano lake
Ascona | Borgnone | Brione (Verzasca) | Brione sopra Minusio | Brissago | Caviano | Cavigliano | Contone | Corippo | Cugnasco | Frasco | Gerra (Gambarogno) | Gerra (Verzasca) | Gordola | Gresso | Indemini | Intragna | Isorno | Lavertezzo | Locarno | Losone | Magadino | Mergoscia | Minusio | Mosogno | Muralto | Onsernone | Orselina | Palagnedra | Piazzogna | Ronco sopra Ascona | San Nazzaro | Sant'Abbondio | Sonogno | Tegna | Tenero versus | Vergeletto | Verscio | Vira (Gambarogno) | Vogorno
canton Tessin | Districts of the canton Tessin | Municipalities of the canton Tessin
