02/09/2026
Turning 50 is a milestone for anyone, but for a nightclub in Ibiza, it’s a whole new level of endurance. To honour one of the last remaining bastions of authentic Ibiza clubbing, White Ibiza features writer Tina Browning took a deep dive into Amnesia Ibiza's past – all the way back to 1976, when Madrid-born intellectual, counterculture provocateur and (ironically) the future author of Spain’s seminal treaty on psychoactive substances, Antonio Escohotado, took an old Ibicencan finca near San Rafael and turned it into a temple of noctural rebellion.
Beneath star-scattered skies and under a kaleidoscopic blanket of acid, a new epoch dawned – one that included Corsican syndicates, embezzlement, vanishing crates of whisky and gin, some wild gifts from Frank Zappa, police raids and a whole lot more. The tale that follows is as wild and wacky as you’d expect, covering characters from Alfredo and Leo Mas to Sven Väth, Marco Carola, Ricardo Villalobos and even Grace Jones.
Read the whole exclusive-to-print story in White Ibiza Magazine: Issue 12 – The Lifestyle Edition – available to order at the link.
https://shop.white-ibiza.com/products/white-ibiza-magazine-issue-12-the-lifestyle-edition
Club photography: Sofia Gomez Fonzo, Amnesia Ibiza, Phrank
Words: Tina Browning
Still life photography: Sofia Gomez Fonzo - Ibiza Photography