Hanami meeting
Hanami meeting
It has been 12 years since the Icelandic-Japanese association planted Japanese cherry trees in Hljómskálagarður. But when th...
Reykjavik area
Tidbits of what the Reykjavik area has to offer
Articles from the capital area
The future is Kári’s
The future is Kári's
Kári Egilsson held a release concert at NASA at Austurvöllur, where this 20-year-old musician celebrated the release o...
Lækjartorg
Lækjartorg
Lækjartorg has been one of Reykjavík's main squares, since the town/city began being built up and expanded a...
March is now in May
One hundred exhibitions are at Design March, where 400 participants in one hundred events are showcasing this May, in the of the field of de...
Colorful in Hafnarborg
Colorful in Hafnarborg
They are different, but really amazing, the two exhibitions that are going on in Hafnarborg, the cultural art cent...
Christmas snow at the beginning of summer
Christmas snow at the beginning of summer
Since Iceland became independent 79 years ago, it has only happened four times that the snow de...
A city within a city
A city within a city
On Laugavegur, just above Hlemmur in the city center, industrial buildings built around the time of the Second Worl...
Hafnarfjörður, a harbor, houses and lava
Hafnarfjörður, a harbor, houses and lava
When Hafnarfjörður, now the third most populous town in the country with more than 30,000 inhabi...
Hannesarholt 10 years old
Hannesarholt 10 years old
For a decade, the cultural institution Hannesarholt has been run with great care by Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir and h...
The city library is a 100 years old
The city library is a 100 years old
There will have been one hundred years this April since the City Library of Reykjavík, one of the cap...
Grafarholt
Grafarholt
By Reynisvatn
It is not unpleasant for the residents of the Grafarholt district, one of Reykjavík's newest districts, t...
The joy of art
The joy of art
Kviksjá / Kaleidoscope í vestursal Kjarvalsstaða
It is so rewarding and fun to go to Kjarvalsstaðir right now. In th...
In the middle of the city center
In the middle of the city center
Hverfisgata, which runs north of and parallel to Laugavegur, Reykjavík's main shopping street, is and al...
By the blue bayou
By the blue bayou
Of course, I have been to the coastline many times, up and down along the capital coastlines. And, as always, the area ...
Pósthusstræti then & now
Pósthusstræti then & now
On a map drawn by the city of Reykjavík in 1801, there are five streets and one unnamed path, between the Ca...
Art in the valley
Art in the valley
Laugardalur is significant in may ways. The people of Reykjavík used to make their way east of Laugavegur to Þvottalaug...
Figures on tourists
Figures on tourists
It is interesting to look at the composition of foreign tourists who visit Iceland. Ferðamálastofa / Icelandic Touris...
Vesturgata in Vesturbær
Vesturgata in Vesturbær
At the beginning of the last century, Reykjavík was divided into three parts, downtown, east and west. The more a...
Panorama of the capital area
Panorama of the capital area
Kópavogskirkja, the oldest church in the second most populous municipality in the country, sta...
Reykjavíkurvíkurtjörn in the winter sun
Reykjavíkurvíkurtjörn in the winter sun
Reykjavíkurtjörn has for decades been one of the favorite places of the capital's residents, espe...
By Hringbraut
By Hringbraut
Hringbraut is first seen in its entirety on a plan from 1927. The idea actually first appeared shortly after the turn of the ...
Judges upstairs, prisoners downstairs
Judges upstairs, prisoners downstairs
One of the most remarkable buildings in Reykjavík is the prison, Hegningarhúsið at Skólavörðustígur...
Spring is around the corner
Spring is around the corner
It is a remarkable day, equally so in the springtime like today, and in the autumntime. These two days have r...
Tjarnargata by Tjörnin
Tjarnargata by Tjörnin
Tjarnargata, runs from Fógetagarðurinn, where the first settler Ingólfur Arnarson built his settlement in 874, to ...
Helgi’s Great Corridor
Helgi's Great Corridor
"Rakel, my wife, and I loosely summed up the value of the gift to the Icelandic Museum of Art, around one hundred ...
Exciting times at The Reykjavík Art Museum
Exciting times at The Reykjavík Art Museum
There are exciting times ahead at the Reykjavík Art Museum, both in Hafnarhús and at Kjarvalss...
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 M...
Reykjavík Harbor 110 years old
Reykjavík Harbor 110 years old
Before the time of airplanes, or submarine communications cables, ships were Iceland's only contact with t...
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 Rey...
War & Peace at Austurvöllur
War & Peace at Austurvöllur
Shortly after new years 1975-1976, Icelanders broke political relations with Great Britain. Unique in the...
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 govern...
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...
Bike & chair
Bike & chair
The Design Museum of Iceland (Hönnunarsafn Íslands), in Garðabær, has in its collection about 5,000 items from the begin...
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 ...
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday
Although Iceland converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism in 1550, almost 500 years ago, Ash Wednesday has survived here a...
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 Kópavog...
Mosfellsdalur
Mosfellsdalur
Of course, it would have been possible to do anything else, stay inside when it is both cold, windy and rainy outside. No ...
Að rekja brot, exhibition in Kópavogur
Að rekja brot, exhibition in Kópavogur
In Gerðarsafn in Kópavogur, the exhibition Að rekja brot, an exhibition sponsored by the Nordic Cul...
Luxury Brands to Reykjavik’s New High Street
Collage the Shop
High-end luxury brands store Collage the Shop will open a store in Hafnartorg this summer. The store offers many of the ...
The Northern Lights season
From September to Mid-April with Reykjavik Excursions
Reykjavik Excursions is one of Iceland’s oldest and most popular tour companies. In...
The new neighbourhood by Heiðmörk
The new neighbourhood by Heiðmörk
The outdoor area at Heiðmörk, forms a collar around the capital area from Rauðhólar in Reykjavík over ...
Filming in Iceland
Filming in Iceland
Iceland‘s unique landscape, from bubbling hot springs to erupting volcanoes, attracts film productions from around the w...
Kringlan by Kringlumýrarbraut
Kringlan by Kringlumýrarbraut
36 years ago, in August 1987, the first shopping center in Iceland opened, and is now the second largest i...
Hildur’s threads
Hildur's threads
At Kjarvalsstaðir, the Reykjavík Art Museum's museum at Klambratún, the exhibition Rauður þráður is curre...
Back 200 years
66 years ago, the city of Reykjavík decided to turn Árbær, a rural country town that was going desert, and is in the best place in the city ...
Kringlan by Kringlumýrarbraut
Kringlan by Kringlumýrarbraut
36 years ago, in August 1987, the first shopping center in Iceland opened, and is now the second largest i...
Hildur’s threads
Hildur's threads
At Kjarvalsstaðir, the Reykjavík Art Museum's museum at Klambratún, the exhibition Rauður þráður is curre...
Back 200 years
66 years ago, the city of Reykjavík decided to turn Árbær, a rural country town that was going desert, and is in the best place in the city ...
By Úlfarsá
By Úlfarsá
Úlfarsárdalur is a beautiful valley where the salmon and trout river Úlfarsá flows from Hafravatn a short way to the sea into...
The glacier lights up
The glacier lights up
Incredibly beautiful, they have brought Snæfellsjökull closer to Reykjavík, I thought as I crossed Öskjuhlíð on my wa...
Skúli Magnússon
Skúli Magnússon (1711-1794) was born in the remote village of Keldunes in NorthEast Iceland. His family moved to Húsavík, where his father ...
The pier district in Grafarvogur
The pier district in Grafarvogur
At the junction of Elliðavogur and Grafarvogur is the pier district, Bryggjuhverfið, in Reykjavík. A dif...
Reykjavík’s New Lifestyle Destination
Hafnartorg hosts more than 30 shops and restaurants
Hafnartorg Gallery is a brand-new elegant space with shopping, food, wine and culture...
The house of the nation, Alþingishúsið II
The house of the nation, Alþingishúsið II
Alþingishúsið was inaugurated during the assembly ceremony on July 1, 1881, and the first gover...
The house of the nation, Alþingishúsið
The house of the nation, Alþingishúsið
Alþingishúsið at Austurvöllur was built between 1880 and 1881. Since then, two annexes have been b...
