Monte Verità
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Monte Verità is a 321 metres above sea level high hill and a cultural-historical ensemble in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The site is in the municipality of Ascona, about half a kilometre north-west of the old town. Monte Verità, located on Lake Maggiore, was a well-known meeting place for the life-reformers (Lebensreform), pacifists, artists, writers and supporters of various alternative movements in the first decades of the 20th century. After 1940 the place lost its importance. An attempt at a revival in the late 1970s met with very limited success.
Casa Anatta, the vegetable cooperative and naturist sanatorium colony founders residence, built in 1902.
Photo postcard of the waterfall near the old mill, Monte Verità, 1904. Light-and-air bathing nude in nature; on the left is the German physician Raphael Friedeberg who brought a number of anarchists like Peter Kropotkin to Monte Verità. Friedeberg also invited the German writer and publicist Erich Mühsam (seated, right) to the natural healing Sanatorium Monte Verità.
Hotel on Monte Verità, designed by architect Emil Fahrenkamp in 1927; built in Bauhaus style in 1928 Fahrenkamp furnished it with part of his East-Asian art collection. In 2008 the hotel was renovated.
Casa Anatta, interior showing part of the museum exhibition.
Ascona
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Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ascona
Ascona
Collegio Papio grounds
Ascona in 1932