Municipality of Ascona
Latitude: 46° 09' N |
Longitude: 8° 46' E |
Altitude: 205 m s.l.m. |
Inhabitants: 5.100 |
Ascona is situated between Porto Ronco and Locarno, separated by this last one by the river Maggia. It is an appreciated town by various points of view, the goodness of the climate that offers a pleasant stay thanks also to its comforting beach and its ports, to the medioeval suburb with numerous historical testimonies, to the city center with its shops, galleries of art and museums, to the medieval suburb with numerous historical testimonies, to the city center with its shops, galleries of art and museums, to the pleasant lake-front that dominates the bay, rich of secular platans, to the international demonstrations with the Musical Weeks of Ascona, to the Museum of Modern Art and the continuous shows, to the multicultural event, thanks to the meetings that already happened to the beginning of the Nine hundred on the hill of the Monte Verità, nicknamed by its frequenters of the "Four Breasts" or the Anarchy, the Lebens Reform, the sexual Revolution and the Art.
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