Amnesia (nightclub)

Historia

Amnesia is one of several internationally renowned clubs in Ibiza. It opened in 1976; the venue was awarded Best Global Club in 2007, 2008 and 2009 at the IDMA Awards in Miami. The club is located close to the village of San Rafael on the highway between Sant Antoni de Portmany and Ibiza Town. The venue's capacity is 5,000.EventsAmnesia is currently run by the Cream nightclub, created and founded by Joseph Mullen from Chester in 1995, in Liverpool. Joseph Mullen sold the brand in 2005 to Cream UK for £4.8 Million and retired from the music industry for personal reasons.The club hosts Cocoon, a party by Sven Väth. The club has also hosted popular nights such as La Troya Asesina.HistoryThe origins of Amnesia are in April 1970, when the Planells family who had inhabited the house for five generations decided to move into town and sell their finca to a widow from an aristocratic background. Ibiza, which had become a destination for tourism already in the fifties, was at that time a hive for counterculture and idealists and the building that was to become Amnesia turned into a meeting point with hippie bands playing and other facets of hippie culture taking place.In May 1976, Antonio Escohotado, who had arrived on the island two years earlier to start a new life, signed a lease with the landlady for use of the premises. He launched a discotheque named "The Workshop of Forgetfulness". He wanted to express that when people go out at night it is to forget their problems and indulge in an unknown world far away from ordinary routine. However, the next day he realized that the Greek word Amnesia contains it all.