Mountains & waterfalls
Ever changing, never the same. That's how Iceland is. Icelandic Times / Land & Saga went sightseeing. Headed east from Reykjav...
Vesturgata in Vesturbær
At the beginning of the last century, Reykjavík was divided into three parts, downtown, east and west. The more affluent lived in the...
Reykjavíkurvíkurtjörn in the winter sun
Reykjavíkurtjörn has for decades been one of the favorite places of the capital's residents, especially in winter. Wh...
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 century in 1900. The...
Judges upstairs, prisoners downstairs
One of the most remarkable buildings in Reykjavík is the prison, Hegningarhúsið at Skólavörðustígur 9. This large build...
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 roughly the same amou...
Askja waking up?
If the volcano Askja/Dyngjufjöll, which is on the northern side of the highlands, between Vatnajökull and Mývatn, starts to erupt, it could ...
Tjarnargata by Tjörnin
Tjarnargata, runs from Fógetagarðurinn, where the first settler Ingólfur Arnarson built his settlement in 874, to Hringbraut, along Tj...
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 million". Says Helgi...
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...
Exciting times at The Reykjavík Art Museum
There are exciting times ahead at the Reykjavík Art Museum, both in Hafnarhús and at Kjarvalsstaðir, which is cele...
Goðafoss the ever so beautiful waterfall
In Skjálfandafljót by Ljósavatnskarð and Bárðardalur in Suður Þingeyjarsýsla is one of the most beautiful and most v...
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
Hveragerði, a town 50 km east of Reykjavík, was created after the second war, but in 1941 there were about 140 people living ...
Reykjavík Harbor 110 years old
Before the time of airplanes, or submarine communications cables, ships were Iceland's only contact with the rest of the world...
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...
Spring is in the air at Reykjanes
It is such a short drive, and extremely beautiful to get out to Reykjanes from the capital. Especially at this time of year w...