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Freetown Christiania, or Christiania for short, is a commune in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The commune is an intentional community, a voluntary residential community sharing a set of beliefs, values and rules. Intentional communities are often established by those wanting to pursue an alternative lifestyle. The kibbutz system found widely in Israel is another example of an intentional community. Christiania started out as an anarchist community, though its anarchist roots have gradually been undermined by the Danish authorities and drug gangs. But it still remains today as essentially a hippy (or hippie depending how you like to spell the word) commune in which about a thousand people live. On 26 September 1971, Christiania was established by a group of squatters led by Jacob Ludvigsen, a prominent anarchist provocateur (aka a provo), who had taken over the former military barracks of  Bådsmandsstræde. The Danish Ministry of Defence took the squatters to court and in 1978 ...