It’s known as a ‘hippie paradise’ – but is it? Whatever our opinion, it’s a drug-fuelled tourist destination where utopia and dystopia seem to be rolled into one.
Fristaden Christiania (Christiania Freetown), also known as Christiania or simply the ‘Staden’, is a commune and ‘micro nation’ situated in a neighborhood occupying the low beaches and islets between Danish capital, Copenhagen, and Amager island.
There, the Amagerkaner live in a ‘anarchist consensus democracy’ – whatever that means.
It all began in 1971, when ‘proto hippies’ squatted in a military base situated there.