Ascona

coat of arms
Wappen von Ascona
base data
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
Map
Karte von Ascona
Kirche Santi Pietro e Paolo in Ascona
churchSanti Pietro e Paolo in Ascona

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

Web on the left of

Wikinews: Ascona - current message
Ascona: Seepromenade Piazza G. Motta
Ascona: Sea-promenade Piazza G. Motta
Delta von Ascona im Lago Maggiore
delta of Ascona in the Lago Maggiore



 

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