Auroville, India

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, whose stated purpose is to realize human unity in diversity. It is a popular tourist destination, and has been described as a "New Age metropolis conceived as an alternative exercise in ecological and spiritual living." The township starkly stands out from the surrounding traditional Indian villages and farms.

Auroville was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, a yoga leader known as The Mother. She was a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, a yoga guru who believed that human evolution had not finished. The Mother believed that this experimental community would evolve humans by bringing a more advanced consciousness called the supramental. The Indian government endorsed the township, and UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural organization, passed a resolution endorsing the project.

In the inauguration ceremony attended by delegates of 124 nations on February 28, 1968, the Mother gave Auroville its 4-point Charter setting forth her vision of Integral living:
* Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
* Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
* Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
* Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.

Links:
Wikipedia article on Auroville
Official Auroville website