Monte Verita
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Monte Verita - The Mountain of Truth:
An early 20th century community in Ascona in the swiss canton Tessin, near Lago Maggiore. The founders wanted to start a new way of life, which was to lead to a new form of society. The key words were Light and Life, they wanted freedom from state and church and they were against private property. They were influenced by the Lebensreform movement. Many visitors came for periods of rest and retreat (two of the founders ran a sanatorium there), others for the vegetarian food, the nudism and free love.
Famous residents:
Between 1900 and 1920, the community was home for shorter or longer periods to a large number of famous people, ranging from artists and writers, such as Paul Klee and Herman Hesse, to well known anarchists, such as Peter Kropotkin and Erich Mühsam. There were dadaists and dancers (Isadora Duncan), psychologists and theosophists (Rudolf Steiner). Even Lenin and Trotsky were vistors for a short time. The wide range of personalities who visited or lived at Monte Verita, and the variety of ideals that they held illustrates how many sided the pre-WW1 european "counter-culture" was.
External Links:
Monte Verita at filane.com with photos
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