Podcast: Play in new window | Download Freedom Haven is an open-design, freedom-based seasteading micronation founded by Tony Olsen. Tony was inspired to launch Freedom Haven while researching the Tiny Home movement and using shipping containers to build new kinds of homes. He started planning a crowd-funding project to build a seastead micronation on aRead more
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In the Seasteading book, [we quoted Erwin Strauss on this project](http://www.seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/Attempted.html#theisleofroses):
> Giorgio Rosa was (or is) a professor of engineering in Bologna, Italy. In the early 1960’s, he built a tower in the Adriatic Sea, in water less than 20 feet deep, about 8 miles off the coast of the Italian city of Rimini. This first tower was wrecked by a storm on February 13, 1965. A new one was built, with an area of about 4,000 square feet. It had a bar, a restaurant, a post office, a bank and a store, all surrounded by a promenade.
