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 ...

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 ...

The film from director Karl Friis Forchhammer, world premiering at the Copenhagen documentary fest, explores the alternative ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dario Sabaghi covers the cannabis industry with a focus on Europe. Once a paradise enclave for hippies, Christiania Freetown has ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN — 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 ...

A wooden sign over the gate into Christiania emphasizing, how the rest of Denmark may be part of the EU, but Freetown is not (Mie Olsen/Courthouse News Service). CHRISTIANIA, Denmark (CN) — “The ...

Seen from a boat drifting along Copenhagen’s wide canals, the neighborhood of Christiania is a verdant enclave tucked beneath a thick canopy of trees. Half a century after it was founded as a ...

Tanja Fox, 44, the daughter of a Danish hippie and an American photographer on the run from the Vietnam draft, was only four when her mother brought her to Christiania, the autonomous enclave in the ...