Ascona
Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It is on the shore of Lake Maggiore. The town is a popular tourist destination and holds the yearly Ascona Jazz Festival.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Locarno Film Festival and Monte Verità.
Locarno Film Festival
Recreation area
Photo: Pardofestival, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs.
Monte Verità
Peak
Photo: Bobo11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monte Verità is a hill standing 321 metres above sea level and a cultural-historical ensemble in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The site is located in the municipality of Ascona, about half a kilometre north-west of the old town.
Visconti Castle
Castle
Photo: Jungpionier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Visconti Castle Italian: Castello Visconteo is a castle in Locarno, Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. In January 2004, the Italian historian Marino Vigano' speculated that it may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci: after 7 years of studies, the Leonardo's Rivellino was recognized as a Da Vinci project.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locarno and Losone.
Locarno
Photo: BjoernEisbaer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Locarno is a city at the northern end of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. The city, along with Venice and Cannes, hosts an international film festival, the third oldest important cinema festival in the world.
Losone
Village
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Losone is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ascona
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Also known as: “CH5091” and “Grand Tour of Switzerland: foto point Ascona”
- Category: tourism
- Location: Locarno District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.1545° or 46° 9′ 16″ northLongitude
8.766° or 8° 45′ 58″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)Open location code
8FRC5Q38+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 9844717317OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
7285107
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Ascona” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أسكونا”
- Chinese: “阿斯科納”
- French: “Ascona”
- French: “Grand Tour de Suisse: Point photo Ascona”
- German: “Ascona”
- German: “Grand Tour of Switzerland: Fotopunkt Ascona”
- Greek: “Ασκόνα”
- Japanese: “アスコナ”
- Korean: “아스코나”
- Latin: “Scona”
- Lombard: “Scona”
- Persian: “ازکونا”
- Portuguese: “Ascona”
- Russian: “Аскона”
- Spanish: “Ascona”
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