2 Giants

2 Giants On the eastern side of Hljómskálagarður, not far from each other, stand two giants in the cultural history of Icelanders, the contemporaries Jónas H...

A moment at the National Museum

A moment at the National Museum Rúnar Gunnarsson's exhibition (1944) Not the blink of an eye, but eternity, just opened at the National Museum of Iceland and...

The blooming town of Hveragerði

The blooming town of Hveragerði Hveragerði, a town 50 km east of Reykjavík, was created after the second war, but in 1941 there were about 140 people living ...

A visit to Þingvellir

  A visit to Þingvellir It has been 95 years since the first national park in Iceland, Þingvellir National Park, was established in 1928. Þingvellir ...

Þorlákshöfn on the up and go

Þorlákshöfn on the up and go The town of Þorlákshöfn on the south coast, where Reykjanes meets Suðurland, now has around 2000 inhabitants. Þorlákshöfn is jus...

The night yes the night

The night yes the night It is great, as a tourist (yes and as a local), now that the air is getting warmer to walk around and explore Reykjavík in the evenin...

War & Peace at Austurvöllur

War & Peace at Austurvöllur Shortly after new years 1975-1976, Icelanders broke political relations with Great Britain. Unique in the history of NATO, an...

Hannes the first minister

Hannes the first minister Hannes Hafstein became Iceland's first minister in 1904, when a special ministerial office in the Danish government for Icelandic a...

The propeller shield

The propeller shield  On the corner of Geirsgata and Tryggvagata, at the southern end of Reykjavík Harbor in the center of Reykjavík, there is a fun monument o...

B S Í 

B S Í At Hringbraut stands BSÍ, the capital's transport hub. A house that was built almost 60 years ago, in 1965, and has long since become far too small. An...

Bike & chair

Bike & chair The Design Museum of Iceland (Hönnunarsafn Íslands), in Garðabær, has in its collection about 5,000 items from the beginning of the last cen...

The exhibition Viðnám

The exhibition Viðnám Science and art go hand in hand in the Icelandic Museum of Art's exhibition, Viðnám, which is an interdisciplinary exhibition where art...

Fljót at Tröllaskagi

Fljót at Tröllaskagi The northernmost settlement in the eastern part of Skagafjörður is Fljót. Snowy countryside, south of Siglufjörður on Tröllaskagi. There...

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Although Iceland converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism in 1550, almost 500 years ago, Ash Wednesday has survived here as a holiday. It is p...

In the middle

In the middle Smáralind, the largest shopping center in the country is located in the center of the capital area in the middle of Kópavogur. There are almost...

The poet Nonni

The poet Nonni One of the best-known and most loved Icelandic writers in the first half of the last century was Jón Sveinsson - Nonni. He wrote 12 Nonni's bo...