Monte Verità
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Monte Verità was a project by Ida Hofmann (1864 - 1926), Henri Oedenkoven and Karl Gräser.
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. The site is in the municipality of Ascona, about half a kilometre north-west of the old town. Monte Verità, located on Lake Maggiore, was a well-known meeting place for the life-reformers (Lebensreform), pacifists, artists, writers and supporters of various alternative movements in the first decades of the 20th century.
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See also
- Lebensreform (German and Swiss life-reform movement)
- Freikörperkultur (free body culture)
- Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (pioneering social reformer)
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