The Nobel Prize-winning German author Hermann Hesse moved to the lakefront village of Montagnola in 1919 and remained there until he died in 1962. A museum has been created in Casa Camuzzi, his first home in the village.
While living here he wrote classics like Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and Narcissus and Goldmund.
In the Torre Camuzzi you can examine a trove of memorabilia, such as correspondence with people like T.S. Eliot and Freud, Hesse’s typewriter, books, photographs and watercolours he painted.
