Christiania: new country
Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania, but most commonly known amongst its inhabitants and visitors as "fristaden" or simply "staden", is a partially self-governing neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Christiania was started in an abandoned army baracks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1971.
Christiania has established semi-legal status as an independent community. It also considering as social experiment with self-government and a democracy based on dialogue replacing majority voting.
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Now, my opinion. I would like to make a post about this part of the city of Copenhagen, because I like it very much. It's so different than a typical city, that impressed me a lot.
When we arrived from Malmö, there was a demostration in favour of Christiania as you can see in the pictures. It was a very funny demostration and everybody was wearing special clothes, playing live music in the trucks ...
I felt Christiania all around Copenhagen. In the main square of the city, in front of the town hall, there was a meeting about Christiania. Incredible!
There are some photos of Christiania:
The doors are ...
And the biggest truth:
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