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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The dream that was CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, in Seattle has evaporated nearly as quickly as it originated. After three shootings leaving one man dead and three wounded, the experiment in ...

Dogs run wild and clouds of weed smoke drift over my head; carried off on the cool riverside breeze. Amongst the chaos a punk’s fallen asleep in the Copenhagen sunshine as toddlers scream, mates laugh ...

Pusherstreet isn't what it used to be. The leading source of retail cannabis in all of Denmark, in one of the largest and oldest anarchic enclaves in all of Europe, is no longer the bustling, friendly ...

Christiania enjoys an exceptional experimental status. This allows residents to take risks with living creatively on a low income (Helen Jarvis) Since the first squatters arrived in 1971, the ...

Ever-so intriguing, Freetown Christiania is actually a controversial part of Copenhagen due to its completely different set of rules – resulting from the fact that it's completely independent of the ...