Ascona is a town of some 5,000 people in southern Switzerland, on the shore of Lake Maggiore in the canton of Ticino. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland, and almost entirely German-speaking municipality of Italian enclave of Campione dItalia. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Lake Maggiore from the Swiss end. ... Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. ...

The town is a popular tourism destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the New Orleans Jazz Festival Ascona. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong was one of the best loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ...

Lake Maggiore with Ascona in the foreground

Download high resolution version (900x356, 137 KB)Lago Maggiore Photo: dierk Andresen, Dierk 15:05, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC): With permission from Weberberg. ... Download high resolution version (900x356, 137 KB)Lago Maggiore Photo: dierk Andresen, Dierk 15:05, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC): With permission from Weberberg. ...

Monte Verità

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 which preached the return to nature (see [1] para. 35).

A large number of artist, anarchist and other famous people have been attracted by this hill, e.g. Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stephan George, Isidora Duncan, Carl Eugen Keel, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Max Piccard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Fanny von Reventlow, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam and Gustav Stresemann. Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Erich Remarque, about 1963. ... Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 - September 14, 1927) was a German author and poet. ... Else Lasker-Schüler (born February 11, 1869 in Elberfeld, Wuppertal; died January 22, 1945 in Jerusalem) was a German Jewish poet. ... Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Mary Wigman (1886 – 1973) dancer, choreographer, and teacher. ... Ernst Toller was a German Communist playwright in the 20th century. ... Frieda von Richthofen (August 11, 1879 - August 11, 1956), a distant relative of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, became famous as the wife of the British novelist D. H. Lawrence. ... Else von Richthofen (October 8, 1874 - December 22, 1973), a distant relative of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, is known as one of the first female social scientists in Germany, wife of the German economist Edgar Jaffé as well as lover of the economists and sociologists Max Weber and... Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 in Berlin, Germany – 10 July 1934 Oranienburg Concentration Camp) (also spelled Muehsam or Muhsam) was an German-Jewish anarchist, writer, poet, dramatist and cabaret performer. ... Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German politician and statesman during the Weimar Republic and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ...

External links

• Der Monte Verità in Ascona
• Der "Heilige Berg" Monte Verità
• Museo comunale d’arte moderna Ascona
• www.ascona.ch
• www.maggiore.ch
• New Orleans Jazz Festival

Opel Ascona is an Opel model. Categories: Opel vehicles | Automobile stubs ...