Fourteen Curiousities about IBIZA
Ibiza Villa reveals 14 curiosities of Ibiza
What do you know about Ibiza, apart from having beautiful beaches and a pilgrimage destination for Famous DJs, wealthy, partygoers and celebrities? Below we reveal 14 curiosities that you certainly did not know about the island of Ibiza.
- The population of the island increases to 1,5 million during summer
- The oldest Hotel on the island is Gran Hotel Montesol in Ibiza, also used as a military base during the civil war.
- In 1909 a couple was caught in flagrant while having sex on a vessel in the port of Ibiza. This adventure has been greatly described in the Diario d’Ibiza.
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- In reality, Ibiza as the rest of her Balearic sisters is not an island but a mountain of the Mediterranean basin that has been flooded by the Atlantic Ocean.
- Some of the olive trees on the island are thousand years old.
- Ibiza has been devastated from the pirates for many years. Interesting that in honor of the looters, in 1915 an obelisk was built in the harbor of Ibiza.
- The first elevator of the island was installed in 1959 at the Noray Hotel.
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- There has only been one plane accident. On 7th January 1972. A flight coming from Valencia fell in Sa Talaia and 6 persons from the crew plus 98 passengers died.
- In 1969 homosexuals were detained.
- Orson Welles was a famous resident of the island. Some of is filming are shown in his movie F as False.
- Sven Väth, one of the most famous Dj’s that constantly visit the island passed three months sleeping on the beaches.
- Carl Cox, among the most popular stars of the electronic nights in Ibiza slept due nights in a Fiat panda next to his girlfriend and sister.
- The biggest disco of the world is here: Privilege. Its main dancing room has the size of a plane hangar.
- In the old disco KU, now Privilege, in 1987 Freddy Mercury and Montserrat Caballé filed the famous video of the song Barcelona for the Olympic Games of 1992.
