Hippie is translated as “uncertain” and refers to a youth movement of nonviolent protest against consumerist society that originated in California in the 1960s. It then spread throughout the world. Characterized by nonconformist, communal living experiences from which a real culture emerged.
Hippies, longhairs, flower children, their ideals were based on peace, love and freedom. And how can we not remember their most famous slogans, “Put flowers in your cannons” and “Make love not war.” Used especially during the Vietnam War.
The movement of the hippies and their quest for absolute freedom touches the interest of public opinion, but especially film and music and, of course, fashion. If you feel within you a pulsing free-spirit, rebellious instinct that wants to follow ideals of love, peace, freedom and nature, your hippie side is calling you. So why not indulge it perhaps by going in search of trips and vacations where you can feel integrated with your wilder side?
Here are 3 destinations where you can really feel far from consumerism and luxurious resorts, trendy discos and crowded beaches, but ever closer to that longed-for feeling called simplicity.
- Cabo Polonio, Uruguay
Built in the 1960s by some hippies, Cabo Polonio is a fishing village situated on the oceanfront among immense dunes. The colorful wooden dwellings lack electricity and running water, but many of the inhabitants now have solar panels and cisterns to make life that flows languidly and serenely here easier. Children running on the beach, dogs off leash, a small supermarket offering what the fisherman has caught and what the farmer has harvested and then simply what is there without too much hassle. Young and not so young playing in streets made of sand. And as the sun goes down in Cabo Polonio you go back to looking at the sky and searching for the stars, like you used to.
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- Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Steady in time this is a small town in the province of Viterbo that, although it is only 40 kilometers from Rome, has managed to keep its historical and natural heritage intact. The historic center of Calcata, perched on a tuff mountain, dominates the green valley of the Treja River. The hamlet is entered through the only gate in the walls. Stepping through the front door, one suddenly takes a leap in time. The village is also called the “artists' village” because of the high number of creative people from all over the world who live and work in the village. There are not only painters and sculptors, also musicians and actors. Blending into such a place and letting the hours flow by slowly, without pretense, without expectation will surely make you feel grateful for everything around you after all, “All you need is love.”
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- Finisterre, Spain
Finisterre is a tiny locality in the Spanish region of Galicia on the so-called Coast of Death where it exudes a mystical atmosphere derived from the role that first the Celts and then the Romans assigned it as a point at the End of the Earth, from which it also derives its name. If in the past it was the place where ancient peoples performed propitiatory rituals facing the sun and accompanying the dead to the 'afterlife, today it is the destination of thousands of visitors and pilgrims from all over the world who consider the Way of St. James to be finished only with a visit to the striking Cabo Finisterre on the imposing promontory overlooking the sea from which every evening the spectacle of a breathtaking sunset can be enjoyed. And how can we not drop in on the hippie beach where those who have been have claimed to have seen a tent or rather a large hut made of rags, poles and oilskins that stands there all year round: full of items to survive with people coming and going, like an endless stream of life, keeping the environment animated.
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What else? Peace&Love and happy vacations.
Illustration by Gloria Dozio - Acrimònia Studios
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