Editing Ascona (section)

=== Monte Verità ===
[[File:Tessin Mai 2007 042.jpg|thumb|Villa Semiramis on Monte Verità, today a part of the hotel and conference complex]]
"[[Monte Verità]]" ("Mount Truth") was so named at the beginning of the 20th century, when a "colony" was founded by proponents of primitive socialism and anarchy on a hill formerly known as "Monescia", just to the north-west of the town of Ascona.<ref>[http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html Hippy.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830033310/http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html |date=2007-08-30 }} para. 35</ref>

The colony attracted a large number of artists, anarchists, and other famous people, including [[Hermann Hesse]], [[Hans Habe]], [[Carl Jung]], [[Erich Maria Remarque]], [[Hugo Ball]], [[Else Lasker-Schüler]], [[Stefan George]], [[Isadora Duncan]], [[Paul Klee]], [[Rudolf Steiner]], [[Mary Wigman]], [[Gyula Háy]], [[Max Picard]], [[Ernst Toller]], [[Henri van de Velde]], [[Rudolf Laban]], [[Frieda von Richthofen|Frieda]] and [[Else von Richthofen]], [[Otto Gross]], [[Erich Mühsam]], [[Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach]], and [[Gustav Stresemann]].