Ibiza / Eivissa History
Let’s guide you first to the geographical location and its known history from where this website is being launched and updated:
The historical date of what is now called Eivissa back to the 17th century BC. as a landmark. It's first colonization started by the Phoenicians in the 8th century BC. followed by the Carthaginians, which founded Ebesus (named after their goddess Bes) in 654 BC. After this many rulers set foot on the island: the Romans (2nd century BC.), Vandals (455 AD.), Byzantines (534 AD.), the Moors (8th & 9th century) and the Normans until it was incorporated into Christianity in 1235 by the Catalans who brought an end to the changing rulers.
For about 750 years life on Eivissa has been very simple but poor. Salt was harvested and exported, fish were caught, farms grew nearly everything people needed, industry, except small mines, was absent. This changed drastically when the first tourists arrived: they were British and sailed to the island in the 30s. They liked it so much that they settled here. In the late 50s the first artists arrived with the weekly ferry from Barcelona, followed by the so called Hippies in the 60s.
At Present (as the history we are now writing by living it): After the airport was built in the late 60s and the harbor was very much enlarged at the demand for modern yacht harbors, Mass-tourism started all over the island, leaving only the few parts of the island without a direct access to the sea close to their originality.
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