In 1971, a group of squatters took over a military base in Copenhagen and called their enclave "Christiania." Their plan was to break away from Denmark and its laws, to stop living under a ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — After a half-century, the “flower-power” aura of Copenhagen’s semi-autonomous Christiania neighborhood hasn't yet wilted. Love-ins ...

Residents in Copenhagen’s famous hippie enclave Christiania began digging up its main street known for its cannabis trade on Saturday, hoping to free the area of criminal gangs following multiple ...

The residents of Freetown Christiania, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, recently began to physically dismantle a part of its community where hash has been sold illegally for decades. According to ...

For more than 50 years, the hippy neighbourhood of Christiania has been a haven of counter-culture, in the very heart of the Danish capital Copenhagen. Popular with tourists, it is known for its ...

COPENHAGEN — The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals ...

The unconventional lifestyle of this self-governing community fuels open debates in Danish social and political circles. An excursion to Copenhagen's gated Christiania reveals particularised laws, ...

Located in Denmark's Copenhagen, and covering an area of 0.34 sq km (34 hectares), the controversial Christiania Freetown is located within the city’s 17th century fortifications and military barracks ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At first glance, utopia is working well in Denmark. In a cafe in the Copenhagen community of Christiania , aka Freetown, dogs wander ...

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