page_title: Ascona
section_title: Monte Verità
hierarchical_section_title: Ascona / History / Monte Verità
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Auf der Suche nach historischen Zeugnissen auf dem Monte Verità über Ascona. Villa Semiramis, heute Teil des Horels und Konferenzzentrums. English: Looking out for historical artefacts on the Monte Veirtà above Ascona, Switzerland. Villa Semiramis, today a part of the hotel and conference complex.
context_page_description: Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
  It is located on the shore of Lake Maggiore.
  The town is a popular tourist destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival.
context_section_description: 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.
  The colony attracted a large number of artists, anarchists and other famous people, including Hermann Hesse, Hans Habe, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stefan George, Isadora Duncan, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Gyula Háy, Max Picard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam, Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, and Gustav Stresemann.
caption: Villa Semiramis on Monte Verità, today a part of the hotel and conference complex
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