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Höfði House

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Gorbachev and Reagan in Höfði House in October 1986.Photo: Dagblaðið Vísir Höfði House has a remarkable history connected to Icelandic relations with other ...

Hot Water Conduits

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Hot Water Conduits Workers casting a concrete hot-water conduit near the Úlfarsá river in the eastern outskirts of Reykjavík, 1942- 43. A concrete mixer is ...

Summer in the South #3

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Summer in the South #3 What stands out when you travel around the South in the rain, wind and very short sunsets? The mountains and the wind direction cause ...

Summer in the South #2

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Summer in the South #2 Here comes the second part of a photo series of three parts, from the Icelandic Times / Land & Saga from Suðurland. The weather fo...

Summer in the South #1

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Summer in the South #1 The weather forecast was bad for the southern part of the country, wind and rain, yellow weather warning. It got Icelandic Times / Lan...

High and low

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High and low It can be said that few streets in Iceland are as diverse in business and human life as Lindargata in Skuggahverfi district of downtown Reykjavík....

Hnitbjörg 100 years old

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Hnitbjörg 100 years old  We know the works of Einar Jónsson (1874-1954), they are a part of Reykjavík’s cityscape and our history. The statues of Ingólfur Arn...

Green is good

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Green is good  One of the largest green areas within Reykjavík is Elliðaárdalur, which is also one of the capital's most popular areas for outdoor activities...

Vikings & us

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Vikings & us The Viking age is not long, 273 years. Beginning in 793 when Norse Vikings attacked Lindisfarne in England, until the year 1066 when Haraldu...

Great numbers

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Great numbers Statistics Iceland just published very positive figures about tourists and the tourism industry. In the first quarter of this year, tourism rev...

Spectacular Safnahúsið

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Spectacular Safnahúsið Explore four floors of art in Reykjavík’s House of Collections Safnahúsið (The House of Collections) features four floors of Icelan...

Nine point six

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Nine point six There are a lot of very interesting things that emerge when you read the latest survey by the Icelandic tourist board from 2021 about travelle...

Vestfirðir of course

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Vestfirðir of course In a 2021 survey by the Tourism Council, it was evident that eight out of ten tourists who visited the country were coming to the countr...

Art in Ásmundarsalur

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Art in Ásmundarsalur In 1933, sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893 – 1982) built a house and studio on Freyjugata on Skólavörðuholt. The house, he designed hims...

Of course the East

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Of course the East When you look at the numbers, whether from the Tourism Office or the Road Administration, two parts of the country are left out in terms o...

A city in the making

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A city in the making Njarðargata, from Hringbraut up to Hallgrímskirkja in the southern part of Skólavörðuholt was built up between 1920 and 1930. At that ...

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