Conference Center

Since 1989, Monte Verità has housed the center "Congressi Stefano Franscini" (ETH Zurich), which in turn draws thousands of top researchers from all over the world to Monte Verità every year.

Hotel Complex Monte Verità

Monte Verità can accommodate up to 86 guests in its various facilities, all situated within the property's park: the Bauhaus hotel, the Art Nouveau-style Villa Semiramis, Casa Monescia, Casa Gioia and Casa Marta.

Restaurant Monte Verità

The restaurant offers light, appetising seasonal cuisine using local products - some of which are grown in the Monte's garden - together with regional and Swiss produce, meticulously sourced and combined for delicious results.

Historical Park Monte Verità

The park at Monte Verità is open to the public. It is a place of magical beauty, where visitors can regain a sense of calm and tune in to the energy of nature.

Museum Complex Monte Verità

Monte Verità was an alternative, vegetarian colony founded at the turn of the 20th century; unlike other similar places around the world, it can still be visited today.

Japanese Tea Ceremony

The Tea House offers visitors a small insight into the history, culture and production of tea. You'll have the chance to take part in a tea ceremony, sipping the infusion of your choice in a harmonious atmosphere.

Monte Verità

  • Presentation of the Conference and Cultural Center (PDF)

    Monte Verità stands on the hills overlooking Ascona and Lake Maggiore and has always been a magnet for ideas, trends, experiments and historical figures.

    At the turn of the 20th century, an alternative, vegetarian colony was founded on the site, and the mythical golden age of Monte Verità began. Artists, anarchists, philosophers and thinkers settled here - with illustrious guests such as Hermann Hesse among them. After a brief period in the early Twenties, during which a group of expressionist artists set up a small artistic community, the hill just in Ascona was purchased by the German banker and art collector Baron Eduard von der Heydt. It was then that Monte Verità became a modern hotel complex, visited by high-profile figures from the worlds of art, politics and culture.

    The Baron bequeathed Monte Verità to the Canton Ticino in the 1950s, and in the late 1980s it was turned into a conference centre thanks to a partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Teconology in Zurich.

    Today, Monte Verità is a state-of-the-art conference and cultural centre, managed by the Foundation of the same name. Situated on seven hectares of tranquil, lush parkland with breathtaking panoramas of Lake Maggiore, it offers visitors a truly unique experience.

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Conference center Monte Verità

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