Reykjavik area

Tidbits of what the Reykjavik area has to offer


Hanami meeting

Hanami meeting It has been 12 years since the Icelandic-Japanese association planted Japanese cherry trees in Hljómskálagarður. But when th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 co...

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...

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...

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 beco...

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 ...

Filming in Iceland

Filming in Iceland Iceland‘s unique landscape, from bubbling hot springs to erupting volcanoes, attracts film productions from around the w...

Hildur’s threads 

Hildur's threads  At Kjarvalsstaðir, the Reykjavík Art Museum's museum at Klambratún, the exhibition Rauður þráður is curre...

Filming in Iceland

Filming in Iceland Iceland‘s unique landscape, from bubbling hot springs to erupting volcanoes, attracts film productions from around the w...

Hildur’s threads 

Hildur's threads  At Kjarvalsstaðir, the Reykjavík Art Museum's museum at Klambratún, the exhibition Rauður þráður is curre...

New stars 

New stars  The Icelandic Literature Prize was established in 1989, 34 years ago on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Associati...

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 ...

New Year

Happy new year. Icelandic Times / Land & Saga wishes its readers, all citizens, and of course customers, friends and family a year of pe...