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
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
For more than three decades, BLÍ, Iceland's Press Photographers' Association, in cooperation with Iceland's Journalists' Associati...
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
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
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
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
About two thousand people now live in Fjallabyggð, this northernmost large municipality in Iceland, Siglufjörður and Ólafsfjörður be...
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...
Að rekja brot, exhibition in Kópavogur
In Gerðarsafn in Kópavogur, the exhibition Að rekja brot, an exhibition sponsored by the Nordic Culture Fund, is curren...
Will our next eruption be just north of Vatnajökull?
One of the most active volcanic eruptions area in the country is from Bárðarbunga, the second highest m...
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
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
Incredibly beautiful, they have brought Snæfellsjökull closer to Reykjavík, I thought as I crossed Öskjuhlíð on my way to the center of R...
Glacier snout and a fascinating cave
Glaciers cover about 11% of Iceland. The largest of them is the Vatnajökull Glacier, which covers 8% of the country; it ...
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
In Kötlujökull, a sliding glacier that slides southeast and down to Mýrdalssandur from Mýrdalsjökull, you can find one of the most beautiful and a...