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20 Feb, 2005 in art pottery by admin

Pierce Pottery

Hippy Markets in Ibiza

Besides of the well-known clubs, beaches and night life, There’s in Ibiza - like in any other place of the world- a list of special places or events that may be interesting for visitors for its extraordinary originality and beauty. If the sunset in Café del Mar is something you can’t lose. Ses Salines it is not less extraordinary , and no forget the extravagant fashion created in hippy Market d'es Canar or the Dalias.

Let us give you a short description of these particular events which are good alternative to spend your time in the island during your stay.

Hippy market Las Dalias

Situated at the 12km mark on the road to San Carlos and created in 1954, originally as a bar and open-air barbecue, to coincide with the patron Saint’s celebration of the village of San Carlos

From the 1980's, with the creation of their Hippy Market, las Dalias began its now well known History above all, thanks to the opening of musical studios nearby, which attracted many musicians and actors from all over the world ex: Mike Oldfield or The Rolling Stones and Queen etc.

There are 2 Basic days to visit Las Dalias:

On Saturdays, all day long their typical Hippy Market is held with everything from handmade goods to clothes, shoes, jewellery, candles, etc... in a relaxed atmosphere in this rural area. In The summer every Wednesday between 8 pm until 6 in the morning is the "namastert experience", a real chill-out night in full Hippy Style.

Es Canar Hippy Market

Near Santa Eulalia is the original Hippy market of Es Canar, the biggest Hippy market on the Island. It was originally started in the early 70’s by a group of swiss hippies selling jeans to “5 pesetas” -2 pens- a pair. They converted a small piece of land into a place where the could sell articles –all hand made- to be able to live, very simply in their own hippy style on this magical island.

Nowadays, it’s a market full of life and colours, very well known, and much visited by tourists. Although it has lost a lot of its original ideas. Now very few things are artisan or hand-made, it has grown with the times, therefore apart from hand-made-jewellry, pottery, leather goods and food. It now has various stands dedicated to tattooing or piercing and, of course, there are many stands selling the typical ad-lib ibicencan clothes in pure white cotton –dresses, skirts, tops, trousers etc. The ad-lib clothes are now sold all over the world, one of Ibiza – the White Island’s most famous products.

The market is held only on Wednesdays and is open until six in the afternoon. Well worth a visit to this colourful and fun market. Best spend the day there to visit also the beautiful surrounding area in the countryside and by the sea.

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Encargado del área de reservas y atención al cliente del 2002 al 2004. Hasta la fecha encargado del Area de E-commerce de la cadena hotelera Grupo Playa Sol en Ibiza

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