Ascona

Ascona is a municipality in the district of Isole, in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The former German name Aschgunen or Aschonen are no longer used today.

Geography

The spa is located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore, west of the Maggia delta. Ascona is the lowest-lying place in Switzerland.

History

Until the 16th century Ronco and Ascona formed a single community. In the former separation of the communities Ascona retained to this day a strange -looking about 100 m wide strip beech forest which extends to approximately 1200 m above sea level. M. about 4 km to the west stretches. Reason for this territorial claim at that time was the use of the wood for charcoal burning. Even today, traces of two Kohlenmeiler erkennenbar, and the field name Carbonera also reminiscent of the former importance of this forest (see SwissTopo ).

Ascona once belonged to Milan, (see the main article → History of Milan ) and from 1403 and 1512 as Ennet Bergische podestà Old Confederacy. After the proclamation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798 and the formation of the two cantons Bellinzona and Lugano, which merged in 1802 to the canton of Ticino, Ascona was part of Switzerland. See the main article → History of the Canton of Ticino.

Traffic

End of the 80 a 1.1 km long road tunnel was built under the Monte Verità. Previously, the car always had to go through the Ascona city center, making it ever came there, particularly during the holiday season to long traffic jams. Today, the cars pass through the tunnel at Ascona, the old coastal road serves as a promenade and the traffic.

Personalities

  • Giovanni Antonio De Lagaia (* 1495, † December 8, 1532 in Rome), painter of the Renaissance
  • Antonio Abondio called Asconio ( 1500), creator of Caryatids at the Church of San Celso in Milan
  • Antonio Abbondio ( il Giovane ), sculptor, sculptors, coins producer
  • Fiorenzo Abbondio; (1892-1980), sculptor
  • Charlotte Bara (1901-1986), expressionist dancer
  • Gotthard de Beauclair (1907-1992), publisher, book designer and poet
  • Wilfried de Beauclair (* 1912), engineer and computer scientist
  • Pietro Berno (1552-1583), blessed spoken as a martyr and Jesuit missionary in India
  • Julius Heinrich Bissier ( born March 12, 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau,? † June 18, 1965 in Ascona ), painter
  • Ivan Desny (1922-2002), actor
  • Dimitri Jacob (* 1935), Clown
  • Miranda Count (* 1969 ), 1 Mini Golf World Champion (1991 )
  • Brigitte Helm (1906-1996), actress
  • Karl Kerényi (1897-1973), classical scholar and religious scholars
  • Ignaz Epper ( born July 6, 1892 in St. Gallen, † January 12, 1969 in Ascona ), painter, graphic artist, woodcut
  • Mischa Epper - Quarles van Ufford ( born August 18, 1901 in Bloemendaal, † October 1978 in Basel), sculptor, Porträtplastikerin, goldsmith
  • Emil Ludwig (1881-1948), writer
  • Pietro Francesco Pancaldi (1739-1783), Church painters
  • Gaetano Matteo Pisoni (1713-1782), architect, was born in Ascona
  • Paolo Antonio Pisoni (1738-1804), architect, was born in Ascona
  • Giovanni Serodine (1600-1631), Baroque painter
  • Robert Siodmak (1900-1973), German film director, screenwriter and film producer
  • Carl pasture Meyer (1882-1976), artist and architect
  • Werefkin (1860-1938), painter
  • Hannes Wettstein (1958-2008), industrial designer
  • Mary Wigman (1886-1973), dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
  • Helmut Zacharias (1920-2002), musician.

Attractions

  • Parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo (1599-1630) with an altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni Serodine,
  • Collegio Papio (1585 ) with renaissance and bas-relief
  • Church of San Michele and castle ruins.
  • Casa Serodine, built around 1620 by Cristoforo and Giovanni Battista Serodine
  • Meeting house
  • Town Council for Art Museum.,
  • Oratory Santi Fabiano and Sebastiano
  • Palace Pancaldi
  • Oratory of the Madonna della Ruga
  • Teatro San Materno. ,
  • Ruins of castle San Materno with Romanesque chapel
  • Museum Epper. ,
  • Beach ( Lido pubblico patriziale ) by Livio Vacchini ( 1982-1987 )
  • Villa ( residence Koerfer ), architect Marcel Breuer.
  • Residence Anatta, Architect: Henri Oedenkoven
  • Gasthof Monte Verità, Architect: Emil Fahrenkamp
  • Single Family Tuia, Architect: Richard J. Neutra.
  • Villa Chiara ( Oppenheimer ), architect: Carl Meyer pasture
  • Church of the Madonna della Fontana
  • Cemetery, with statues of Fiorenzo Abbondio
  • Balladrum ( prehistoric / medieval settlement ). ,.

Culture

  • Fondazione Marianne Werefkin
  • Museo Comunale d' Arte Moderna Ascona.

Every year in summer, there is the JazzAscona festival in the streets of Ascona. After the Ascona Opel Ascona is named. The hill above Ascona is the Monte Verità, who possessed a great cultural significance in the first half of the 20th century. On Monte Verità to dropouts and do-gooders gathered and proclaimed in a unique blend of free love, vegetarianism, anarchy and communitarian ideas.

Sports

The 18- hole golf course of Ascona is a member of a space founded in 1928 golf clubs. Built by British architect course is situated in a park setting near the lake and had multiple international tournaments.

In Ascona is also the world's oldest miniature golf course, opened in 1954.

During the 2008 European Football Championship, the German national football team beat in Ascona on their team headquarters and traveled from Ascona to the respective venues.

Pictures

Maggia Delta Ascona, Lake Maggiore

View of Ascona on Lake Maggiore

Panorama of the waterfront

Ascona (front) and Locarno ( rear) on the Maggia delta

Promenade of Ascona at night

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