Travel Info: How to get to Monte Verità
Address
Congressi Stefano Franscini
Monte Verità
Via Collina
CH-6612 Ascona
Website: http://www.csf.ethz.ch
You can reach Switzerland either by train (check the external page international timetable) or by air. The main Swiss airports are external page Zurich-Kloten (recommended airport if you need to get to Ascona) and external page Geneva-Cointrin.
The Italian external page Milano-Malpensa airport is another option.
Zurich Airport to Zurich Main Station:
Trains leave Zurich Airport for Zurich Main Station (a 10-15 minute ride) several times every hour from the train station just beneath the main airport building.
Zurich Main Station to Locarno:
From Zurich Main Station several trains leave for Locarno eather with changes
- in Bellinzona or
- in Arth-Goldau and Bellinzona
Check the external page time-table of the Swiss Federal Railways for your individual train connection.
Free shuttle bus from Locarno to Monte Verità: Sunday at 2.30 pm, 3.30 pm, 4.10 pm, 4.50 pm, 5.30 pm, 6.20 pm.
Locarno to Ascona Posta to Monte Verità:
You can reach Ascona from Locarno train station by bus (bus stop Ascona Posta), leaving Locarno, Stazione every 30 minutes (at 8 minutes, and 38 minutes past every hour, Bus No. 1).
From Ascona Posta to Monte Verità you can either walk (25 min. uphill!), take a taxi for approx. 15 CHF or the BUXI (Bus & Taxi) for 4 CHF at limited times (leaving opposite the Otello Cinema, on the right).
Please check the external page time-table of the Swiss Federal Railways for your individual connections.
A taxi from Locarno train station to Monte Verità costs approx. 30 - 50 CHF (regular taxi). The cheapest rates are usually with the EcoTaxi (Booking necessary: phone +41 91 792 21 01 or 0800 321 321).
Follow the freeway to Gotthard-Italy until the exit "Bellinzona-Sud". Take the road to Locarno which goes first along and then across the Magadino plain and then into a tunnel to bypass Locarno. Do not take the Locarno exit at the end of this tunnel, but stay in the left lane and follow the signs to Ascona, Brissago.
After crossing the river, take the Ascona exit, cross the roundabout and the intersection that follows it and drive along the main road towards the old town of Ascona. When you cannot continue straight because you arrive at the pedestrian zone, take a sharp right up the hill and follow this winding road all the way up to Monte Verità (there are occasional white signs "Centro Monte Verità").
Shortly after passing the Hotel Michelangelo on your left, you will see a number of round black signs announcing the conference center and, on your right, a red house. Take the cobblestone road between the two and follow it all the way up the hill. There are parking lots just before you come to the main white building or just after you pass it.
Follow the freeway to Chiasso-Lugano-Gotthard until you come to the exit "Rivera" (next exit after "Lugano Nord"). Take the very scenic local road down to the Magadino plain (Cadenazzo) and turn left onto the road to Locarno. This takes you across the Magadino plain and into a tunnel to bypass Locarno. Then follow the directions given above for the approach from the north.
If you come on the local road from Verbania, exit right shortly after coming out of the tunnel which passes under Monte Verità and follow the above directions.