Ascona

Ascona is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of in . It is on the shore of . The town is a popular tourist destination and holds the yearly Ascona Jazz Festival.
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  • Type: Village with 5,420 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Ascona TI”
  • Postal code: 6612
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Monte Verità and Locarno Film Festival.

Peak
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is a hill standing 321 metres above sea level and a cultural-historical ensemble in the Swiss canton of . The site is located in the municipality of Ascona, about half a kilometre north-west of the old town.

Recreation area
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The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in , . 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.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Locarno and Losone.

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is a city at the northern end of in . The city, along with and , hosts an international film festival, the third oldest important cinema festival in the world.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of in .

Ascona

Latitude
46.1554° or 46° 9′ 20″ north
Longitude
8.7708° or 8° 46′ 15″ east
Population
5,420
Elevation
202 metres (663 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH ASC
Open location code
8FRC5Q4C+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 59999946
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2661698
Wiki­data ID
Q63992
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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”
  • Georgian: “ასკონა”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “اسکونا”
  • Venetian: “Ascona”
  • Vietnamese: “Ascona”
  • Vlaams: “Ascona”
  • Volapük: “Ascona”
  • Walloon: “Ascona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ascona”
  • Welsh: “Ascona”
  • Wolof: “Ascona”
  • Zulu: “Ascona”

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