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Fondazione Monte Verità. Strada Collina 84; CH-6612 Ascona; Tel. +41 91 785 40 40; Fax +41 91 785 40 50 [email protected]
Monte Verità (Italian; German 'Berg Wahrheit', meaning "Mount Truth" or "Mountain of Truth") is a 321 metres above sea level high hill and a cultural-historical ensemble in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Today, Monte Verità is a state-of-the-art congress and cultural center run by the Foundation of the same name. Immersed in the quiet and green of a park of more than 7 hectares, with an incomparable view of Lake Maggiore, offers visitors a unique experience.
The Monte Verità is also however a well preserved testimony for the history of architecture. From Adam's hut to the Bauhaus. The ideology of the first settlers demanded spartan chalet-like timber dwellings with plenty of light and air and few comforts.
Dec 11, 2018 · Monte Verità: the Swiss early hippie colony. History. As a young woman, Ida Hofmann was a successful piano teacher and glamorous socialite in Russia, Austria and Montenegro. She then made a radical new beginning in Ticino and founded the soon-to-be legendary Monte Verità.
Open spirit on Monte Verità. Just a 15-minute walk from Ascona rises the 321 metre tall "Hill of Truth". The panoramic view of the village and the Lago Maggiore is fantastic – just like the story of the eccentrics from around the world who established an early hippy colony here in 1900.
This hill in Ascona boasts a storied past that began at the turn of the 20th Century when the Monte Verità (Hill of Truth) became the heart of a movement dedicated to spiritual search and life renewal, which involved intellectuals, academics and artists coming mainly from Northern Europe.
The Monte Verità has been known to exert a magnetic attraction. It's a spiritual and energy-imbued hill above Ascona that sits on the Insubric Line, part of the Periadriatic Seam that forms the division between the continental plates of Africa and Europe.
The Monte Verità park is the result of a perfect union between tradition and research. A hundred years of history can be revisited through the architecture, the culture and the natural surroundings where utopias were created. There are several buildings covering the history of Monte Verità.
Monte Verità park. Tea house. Contact and directions. In 1964, Baron Eduard von der Heydt bequeathed the Monte Verità complex to the Swiss Republic and Canton of Ticino with the request that "Monte Verità be used for international artistic and cultural activities at the highest level".
