Monte Verità rises on the hills above Ascona and Lake Maggiore, and has always been a magnetic pole of convergence of ideas, trends, experiments and historical figures.

The Congressi Stefano Franscini is a division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH Zürich), responsible for the financial and administrative promotion and selection of international conferences, workshops, ETH doctoral schools and situated in the south of Switzerland (Canton Ticino) at Monte Verità.