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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A shooting Saturday in a Copenhagen neighborhood known for its counterculture vibe and flourishing hashish trade left a 30-year-old man dead and four other people inured, Danish police said. Two ...

At first glance, utopia is working well in Denmark. In a cafe in the Copenhagen community of Christiania , aka Freetown, dogs wander freely among relaxed diners eating home-made organic food as Bob ...

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 ...