A peaceful, central setting ideal for exploring the island. The hotel is the ideal place to enjoy the best of the island. Its location, on Santa Eulalia’s peaceful promenade and the natural surroundings make Aguas de Ibiza a charming hotel from which to explore the beautiful beaches the island has to offer.
The Hippie Movement in Ibiza
The island of Ibiza has become very characteristic and became internationally known largely thanks to the arrival of the hippies to the island in the 60s and even today, that hippie essence is still maintained in many parts of Ibiza. From Aguas de Ibiza Grand Luxe Hotel we immerse you in the history and culture of the hippie movement that was so important and influential on the island of Ibiza.
Hippies and Ibizan peasants
The arrival of the hippies in Ibiza
Ibiza became internationally known for the arrival of the hippies in the 1960s, although many European intellectuals and artists had already visited in the 1930s and left when the Spanish Civil War broke out. In the 1960s, after the harsh post-war period, many of these international visitors returned to the island of Ibiza.
After the wars and post-war hardships of World War II, the island of Ibiza became a meeting place for many visitors, most of them Americans fleeing their country protesting the Vietnam War. Many were young people and followers of the hippie movement who came to Ibiza disappointed by the situation in their countries and discovered an island where they could breathe freedom and tranquillity together with the natural beauty that Ibiza offers. For them, Ibiza had everything they were looking for.
The hippie movement had found on the island one of its sacred places in the world along with San Francisco, Amsterdam and Goa. In this way, Ibiza became one of the world capitals of the hippie movement from the 1960s onwards, which made the island internationally popular, attracting more young people who wanted to come to live, experiment and create. With the arrival of the first tourists and wealth on the island of Ibiza, people also opened their paths, minds and ideas and Ibiza became a meeting point for people from different countries, with different ideas and cultures.
The hippies sought and found in Ibiza direct contact with nature together with a good climate and a sacred and peaceful place far from the overcrowded crowds. The Ibizan society of the time welcomed those hippies with long hair and women in colourful dresses in a friendly manner. Most of them arrived fleeing from their countries, they were artists or aspired to be artists and usually settled far from the population centres as they wanted a direct link with nature, in country houses, where they organised their events and gave free rein to their imagination and creativity.
The arrival of tourism on the island of Ibiza
The arrival of the hippies made the island of Ibiza very popular and more and more tourists came from all over Europe, which caused the hippie essence to fade away and the locals began to focus more on their businesses and the growth of tourism. However, today there are still many hippies on the island and much of the essence and spirit of the hippie movement of the time, such as its street markets, musical events and rituals.
In the end, the island of Ibiza still maintains the hippie spirit that was impregnated in the 60s with the hippie movement, and that is one of the things that makes it a special, different and world-renowned island. Stay at Aguas de Ibiza Grand Luxe Hotel to discover the island of Ibiza and its magical hippie essence that is still alive today.