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 |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Monte Verità and Locarno Film Festival.
Monte Verità
Peak
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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.
Locarno Film Festival
Recreation area
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locarno and Losone.
Locarno
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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
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Losone is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Muralto
Village
Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ascona
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, intentional community, and locality
- Location: Locarno District, Ticino, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.1554° or 46° 9′ 20″ northLongitude
8.7708° or 8° 46′ 15″ eastPopulation
5,420Elevation
202 metres (663 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH ASCOpen location code
8FRC5Q4C+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 59999946OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ascona” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ascona”
- Albanian: “Ascona”
- Arabic: “أسكونا”
- Aragonese: “Ascona”
- Armenian: “Ասկոնա”
- Armenian: “Ասքոնա”
- Arpitan: “Ascona”
- Asturian: “Ascona”
- Basque: “Ascona”
- Bavarian: “Ascona”
- Belarusian: “Аскона”
- Breton: “Ascona”
- Catalan: “Ascona”
- Cebuano: “Ascona (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Ascona”
- Chinese: “阿斯科納”
- Chinese: “阿斯科纳”
- Corsican: “Ascona”
- Croatian: “Ascona”
- Czech: “Ascona”
- Danish: “Ascona”
- Dutch: “Ascona”
- Esperanto: “Aschgunen”
- Esperanto: “Ascona”
- Esperanto: “Askono”
- Esperanto: “Gerbi”
- Esperanto: “Monescie”
- Esperanto: “Monte Verità”
- Esperanto: “Moscia”
- Esperanto: “Saleggi”
- Estonian: “Ascona”
- Finnish: “Ascona”
- French: “Ascona”
- Friulian: “Ascona”
- Galician: “Ascona”
- German: “Aschgunen”
- German: “Aschonen”
- German: “Ascona”
- German: “Moscia”
- Greek: “Ασκόνα”
- Hebrew: “אסקונה”
- Hungarian: “Ascona”
- Icelandic: “Ascona”
- Ido: “Ascona”
- Indonesian: “Ascona”
- Interlingua: “Ascona”
- Interlingue: “Ascona”
- Irish: “Ascona”
- Italian: “Ascona”
- Japanese: “アスコナ”
- Kongo: “Ascona”
- Korean: “아스코나”
- Kurdish: “Ascona”
- Kurdish: “Askona”
- Latin: “Scona”
- Ligurian: “Ascona”
- Limburgan: “Ascona”
- Lombard: “Ascona”
- Lombard: “Ascòna”
- Lombard: “Scona”
- Low German: “Ascona”
- Luxembourgish: “Ascona”
- Malagasy: “Ascona”
- Malay: “Ascona”
- Minangkabau: “Ascona”
- Narom: “Ascona”
- Neapolitan: “Ascona”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ascona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ascona”
- Norwegian: “Ascona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ascona”
- Persian: “ازکونا”
- Picard: “Ascona”
- Piemontese: “Ascona”
- Polish: “Ascona”
- Portuguese: “Ascona”
- Romanian: “Ascona”
- Romansh: “Ascona”
- Russian: “Аскона”
- Sardinian: “Ascona”
- Scots: “Ascona”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ascona”
- Serbian: “Ascona”
- Sicilian: “Ascona”
- Slovak: “Ascona”
- Slovenian: “Ascona”
- Spanish: “Ascona”
- Swahili: “Ascona”
- Swedish: “Ascona”
- Swiss German: “Ascona”
- Thai: “อัสกอนา”
- Thai: “อัสโกนา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ascona”
- Turkish: “Ascona”
- Ukrainian: “Аскона”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ascona”
- Venetian: “Ascona”
- Vietnamese: “Ascona”
- Vlaams: “Ascona”
- Volapük: “Ascona”
- Walloon: “Ascona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ascona”
- Welsh: “Ascona”
- Wolof: “Ascona”
- Zulu: “Ascona”
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