Freetown Christiania

This guide to Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen opens in 1971, when a journalist named Jacob Ludvigsen climbed onto abandoned military barracks and declared them a free town, with squatters raising a flag, banning cars and governing themselves by consensus. It follows the decades in which the commune's Pusher Street market, quietly tolerated by authorities, turned violent, with a police officer shot in 2016 and gunmen opening fire in daylight years later. Best heard walking from the entrance down toward Pusher Street itself.