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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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This article is about the island. | WIKI |
Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea | WIKI |
IbizaNative name: EivissaSatellite view (2013)IbizaIbiza is midway between Spanish mainland's coastline and the larger island of MajorcaGeographyLocationBalearic SeaCoordinates38xc2xb059xe2x80xb2N 1xc2xb026xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf38.98xc2xb0N 1.43xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 38.98; 1.43Coordinates: 38xc2xb059xe2x80xb2N 1xc2xb026xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf38.98xc2xb0N 1.43xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 38.98; 1.43ArchipelagoBalearic Islands, Pityusic IslandsArea571.6xc2xa0km2 (220.7xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)Highestxc2xa0elevation475xc2xa0m (1558xc2xa0ft)Highestxc2xa0pointSa TalaiassaAdministrationSpainAutonomous CommunityBalearic IslandsProvinceBalearic IslandsCapital cityIbiza TownLargest settlementIbiza Town (pop. | WIKI |
Ibiza (Spanish:xc2xa0[ixcbx88xcexb2ixcexb8a]; officially in Catalan: Eivissa [xc9x99jxcbx88visxc9x99]; see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of Spain. | WIKI |
The island's government and the Spanish Tourist Office have worked toward promoting more family-oriented tourism. | WIKI |
[3] Ibiza and the nearby island of Formentera to its south are called the Pine Islands, or "Pityuses". | WIKI |
Phoenician colonists called the island Ibossim or Iboshim (Phoenician: xf0x90xa4x80xf0x90xa4x81xf0x90xa4x94xf0x90xa4x8c, xcaxbeBxc5xa0M,[9] "Dedicated to Bes"). | WIKI |
In the 18th and 19th centuries the island was known to the British and especially to the Royal Navy as Ivica. | WIKI |
The island produced dye, salt, fish sauce (garum) and wool. | WIKI |
Ibiza began establishing its own trading stations along the nearby Balearic island of Majorca, such as Na Guardis, and "Na Galera" where numerous Balearic mercenaries hired on, no doubt as slingers,[a] to fight for Carthage. | WIKI |
During the Second Punic War, the island was assaulted by the two Scipio brothers in 217 BC but remained loyal to Carthage. | WIKI |
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and a brief period of first Vandal and then Byzantine rule, the island was conquered by the Muslims in 902, the few remaining locals converted to Islam and Berber settlers came in. | WIKI |
The island was conquered by Aragonese King James I in 1235. | WIKI |
The island maintained its own self-government in several forms until 1715, when King Philip V of Spain abolished the local government's autonomy. | WIKI |
Today, the island is part of the Balearic Autonomous Community, along with Majorca, Menorca and Formentera. | WIKI |
Though primarily known for its party scene, large portions of the island are registered as UNESCO World Heritage Sites,[16] and thus protected from the development and commercialization of the main cities. | WIKI |
Ibiza is a rock island covering an area of 572.56 square kilometres (221.07xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi), almost six times smaller than Majorca, but over five times larger than Mykonos (in the Greek Isles) or 10 times larger than Manhattan in New York City. | WIKI |
The Balearic island chain includes over 50 islands, many of which are uninhabited. | WIKI |
The highest point of the island is Sa Talaiassa, also known as Sa Talaia or Sa Talaia de Sant Josep at 475 metres (1,558xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
Ibiza is administratively part of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, whose capital is Palma, on the island of Majorca. | WIKI |
The island's self-government institution is the Ibiza Island Councilxc2xa0[es] (Consell Insular d'Eivissa). | WIKI |
Winters are slightly rainy and mild, from November to April normally the whole island turns green for the seasonal rains. | WIKI |
In terms of origin, about 55 percent of island residents were born in Ibiza, 35 per cent are domestic migrants from mainland Spain (mostly working-class families from Andalusia, and the remainder from Catalonia, Valencia and Castile), and the remaining 10 to 15 per cent are foreign, dual and multi-national citizens of the EU and abroad (Govern de les Illes Balears xe2x80x93 IBAE 1996). | WIKI |
Additionally, because of the influence of tourism and expatriates living in or maintaining residences on the island, other languages, like English, French, German and Italian, are widely spoken. | WIKI |
Ibiza is considered to be a popular tourist destination, especially due to its well-known and at times riotous nightclub-based nightlife centred on two areas: Ibiza Town, the island's capital on the southern shore and Sant Antoni to the west. | WIKI |
Nightlife in Ibiza has undergone several changes since the island's opening to international tourism in the late 1950s. | WIKI |
Apart from this confidential scene, which nevertheless attracted many foreigners to the island, local venues during the 1960s consisted mostly of bars, which would be the meeting points for Ibicencos, ex-pats, seafarers and tourists. | WIKI |
These four clubs mainly defined nightlife on the White Island, which has evolved and developed from several distinctive elements: open-air parties (Es Paradis, Privilege, Amnesia), held in isolated places, eventually old fincas (Pacha, Amnesia), that mixed in nudity and costume party (Es Paradis, Privilege, Pacha) and enabled people from various backgrounds to blend (all). | WIKI |
The hippie ethos served as a common factor that infused all these venues and catalyzed the experience of a certain kind of freedom, accentuated by the holiday nature of most of the stays on the White Island. | WIKI |
At the end of the 1990s, the after-hour parties took firm root on the island. | WIKI |
In recent years, during the summer, top producers and DJs in dance music come to the island and play at the various clubs, in between touring to other international destinations. | WIKI |
Some of the most famous DJs run their own weekly nights around the island. | WIKI |
The island has achieved fame as a cultural centre for house and trance in particular, with its name often being used as a partial metonym for the particular flavour of electronic music originating there, much like Goa in India. | WIKI |
Opening Parties normally coincide with the culmination of the International Music Summit, a three-day conference which has taken place on the island every year since 2008. | WIKI |
The island's government is in the process of making policy changes to encourage a more cultured and quieter tourism scene. | WIKI |
The tourism of the island is not always characterized by its nightlife. | WIKI |
Ibiza has been featured in the racing game Test Drive Unlimited 2, in which the player can drive around the entire island. | WIKI |
A number of novels and other books have been written using Ibiza as the setting, including "The White Island" by Stephen Armstrong, Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler, Soma Blues by Robert Sheckley,[38] Vacation in Ibiza by Lawrence Schimel,[39] A Short Life on a Sunny Isle: An Alphonse Dantan Mystery by Hannah Blank,[40] They Are Ruining Ibiza by A. C. Greene,[41] and The Python Project by Victor Canning. | WIKI |
[42] Books including Ibiza Bohemia,[43] which was published by Assouline, which have explored the island itself with both photography and text, while other such as Memes Eivissencs have registered the traditions of their residents and their history in social media. | WIKI |
Tourism officials in Ibiza were reportedly "annoyed" by the song's apparent reinforcement of drug culture associated with Ibiza in the past, and Tourism Director Vicent Ferrer subsequently invited Posner to witness the island's culture and how it contrasts with the party "typecast. | WIKI |
Because of its rustic beauty, both companies and artists frequently use the island for photographic and film shoots. | WIKI |
Since the early days of mass tourism on the island, there have been a large number of development projects ranging from successful ventures, such as the super clubs at Space and Privilege, to failed development projects, such as Josep Lluxc3xads Sert's abandoned hotel complex at Cala D'en Serra,[48] the half-completed and now demolished "Idea" nightclub in Sant Antoni,[49] and the ruins of a huge restaurant/nightclub in the hills near Sant Josep called "Festival Club" that only operated for three summer seasons in the early 1970s. | WIKI |
[50] The transient nature of club-oriented tourism is most obvious in these ruins scattered all over the island. | WIKI |
Local artist Irene de Andrxc3xa8s has tackled the difficult issue of the impact of mass tourism on the island local landscapes, both natural and cultural, in an ongoing project called "Donde nada ocurre" (Where nothing happens). | WIKI |
[51] In 2013, Ibiza property prices generally remained above market value, and many of the development projects on the island have now been completed or continue, as well as some new projects announced at the end of 2012. | WIKI |
He said that with almost 100,000 legal tourist beds and about 132,000 inhabitants on the island's 572 square kilometres (221xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) not much more tourism can be supported. | WIKI |
Of the most common culinary products of the island are sweets known as flaons. | WIKI |