Monte Verità

Monte Verità 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 , about half a kilometre north-west of the old town.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 403 metres
  • Description: colony on the hill Monescia near Ascona in Ticino, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Hill of Truth”, “Monte Monescia”, and “Monte Verita”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Locarno Film Festival and Visconti Castle.

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.

Castle
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Italian: Castello Visconteo is a castle in , . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. In January 2004, the 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.

Railway station
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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 .

Monte Verità

Latitude
46.1583° or 46° 9′ 30″ north
Longitude
8.763° or 8° 45′ 47″ east
Elevation
403 metres (1,322 feet)
Open location code
8FRC5Q57+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3406827422
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Wiki­data ID
Q870148
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Monte Verità” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Monte Verità”
  • Chinese: “渥瑞塔山”
  • Chinese: “韦里塔山”
  • Dutch: “Monte Verità”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ڤيريتا”
  • Esperanto: “Monte Verità”
  • Finnish: “Monte Verita”
  • Finnish: “Monte Verità”
  • French: “Monte Verità”
  • Georgian: “მონტე ვერიტა”
  • German: “Berg der Wahrheit”
  • German: “Monte Monescia”
  • German: “Monte Verita”
  • German: “Monte Verità”
  • German: “Wahrheitsberg”
  • Greek: “Monte Veritas”
  • Greek: “Βουνό της Αλήθειας”
  • Hebrew: “מונטה וריטה”
  • Italian: “Monte Monescia”
  • Italian: “Monte Verità”
  • Japanese: “モンテ・ヴェリタ”
  • Lombard: “Monascia”
  • Russian: “Монте Верита”
  • Spanish: “Monte Verita”
  • Spanish: “Monte Verità”
  • Swedish: “Monte Verità”
  • Swiss German: “Monte Verità”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Monte Verità”
  • Ukrainian: “Монте Веріта”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Casa Anatta and Monte Verità museum complex.

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