Autonomous Cultural center Metelkova is a sizeable squat consisting of 7 main buildings in the center of Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana, created in the former military headquarters of the Yugoslav National Army. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, it got empty and was squatted in September 1993. Now they do not have to ‘take their water and electricity anymore, but are able to pay for it through the variety of cultural and creative activities they unfold within their Freetown of Metelkova.
A place worth visiting for real as well online !
Telæthrion is a Greek Eco-utopian project, with Free & Real as their slogan. These Greek Eco-activists have envisioned village full of geodesic domes on a Greek Island, called Evia. They organize several activities such as yoga and even guided 'mushroom-experiences' for the culinary enthousiast, but also are altruïstic since they want to spread their way of living by instructing others. By means of 'free and real familymembership', travelling and through a telæthrionic media-department (!)
Their website is as impressive as their ethos to create this small piece of paradise: in seven European languages, though most of their activities are -quite logically- in the local language Greek -> ελληνικά