List of intentional communities. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of intentional communities. For directories, see external links below. Europe[edit] Middle East[edit] North America[edit] Central and South America[edit] Africa[edit] South Africa[edit] Orania near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Asia[edit] India[edit] Auroville Japan[edit] Atarashiki-mura See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Auroville, a universal city in the making. Marinaleda, Spain. Geography[edit] The town is located at an altitude of 205 meters and lies 108 kilometers east of the provincial capital, Seville. Marinaleda belongs to the comarca of Estepa and is situated between this latter town and Écija, in the eastern part of the province of Seville, in the basin of the Genil river. Its geographical coordinates are WikiMiniAtlas History[edit] The first indications of human settlement in the territory now covered by the Marinaleda municipality go back to the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, about 5,000 years ago.
There was a major Roman presence, and some date the foundation of the village to this period. The Arab presence is visible in monuments such as the Towers of Gallape and the fortress of Alhonoz. Marinaleda then grew up as a centre of population due to the influx of day labourers working for large landowners, especially the Marquesses of Estepa. In the postwar period, the population suffered great want and hunger as well as a severe repression. Mondragon: Spain's giant co-operative where times are hard but few go bust | World news. José María Ormaetxea is the co-founder of Spain's seventh biggest industrial group, but he potters around Mondragon in a Ford Fiesta and lives in an ordinary flat in this industrial town tucked into a valley in the country's northern Basque region. "Imagine how rich he could have been if he had founded a different sort of company," said Kepa Oliden, a local newspaper reporter from this town of 23,000 people.
"But you won't find anyone driving a Rolls-Royce in Mondragon. " Visitors also find little of the new poverty sweeping through other parts of Spain, for up the steep slopes of what locals jokingly call the "sacred mountain" lies the headquarters of the Mondragon Corporation, the remarkably recession-proof company that Ormaetxea helped found in 1956. There is little flashy about the offices of the Basque country's biggest industrial company, but then there is nothing normal about what is now the world's biggest workers co-operative … with global sales of €15bn (£13bn). The reason? What is Burning Man? One Community: Open Source Global Sustainability Collaborative for The Highest Good of All.