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Welcome to Iceland

Welcome to Iceland According to the latest figures from the Icelandic Tourist Board, the number of tourists has increased by 103%, to 1.9 million in the last...

World event in Reykjavík

World event in Reykjavík The summit of the Council of Europe is now being held in Reykjavík, and this is only the fourth summit of the council since it was f...

Photographs of the year 2022

Photographs of the year 2022 For more than three decades, BLÍ, Iceland's Press Photographers' Association, in cooperation with Iceland's Journalists' Associati...

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 her family at Grundar...

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 this 50-year-old build...

Cold winter, warm Easter

Cold winter, warm Easter This winter is the coldest of the century. The average temperature in Reykjavík in the coldest month, December, was just around -4°C...

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...

Wonderful in Fjallabyggð

Wonderful in Fjallabyggð About two thousand people now live in Fjallabyggð, this northernmost large municipality in Iceland, Siglufjörður and Ólafsfjörður be...

A fascinating world of hot water 

A fascinating world of hot water  Opposite Akureyri, at the bottom of Eyjafjörður and below Vaðlaheiði you can find Skógarböðin / Forrest Lagoon. A unique ba...

New stars 

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

Ten thousand years

Ten thousand years It has been 10,000 years since the highest mountain in the country outside of glaciers, Snæfell, last woke up. Snæfell, which is in Vatnaj...

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 way to the center of R...

Litir litanna & hlutfall hlutanna

Litir litanna & hlutfall hlutanna Geómetría heitir nýlega opnuð sýning á Gerðarsafni í Kópavogi. Falleg, spennandi og vel uppsett sýning þar sem 22 lista...

Katla is due

Katla is due In Kötlujökull, a sliding glacier that slides southeast and down to Mýrdalssandur from Mýrdalsjökull, you can find one of the most beautiful and a...

Up & rarely down 

  Food is a very large post in the index basket Up & rarely down  Inflation in Iceland for the last twelve months is now 9.3% and continues to ...

Auður’s living hats

Auður's living hats From the exhebition Halda Áfram by Auður in Gallery Port Auður brings life to hats   Gallery Port at Laugavegur 32 makes the ca...