Hanami meeting
Hanami meeting
It has been 12 years since the Icelandic-Japanese association planted Japanese cherry trees in Hljómskálagarður. But when the cherry trees are i...
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 of his first LP, Palm...
Lækjartorg
Lækjartorg
Lækjartorg has been one of Reykjavík's main squares, since the town/city began being built up and expanded after it received mar...
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 design and architectur...
Colorful in Hafnarborg
Colorful in Hafnarborg
They are different, but really amazing, the two exhibitions that are going on in Hafnarborg, the cultural art center of Hafnarfjörður....
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 depth has been measure...
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 World War are currently ...
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 inhabitants, became a mark...
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 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 capital's oldest cultur...
Grafarholt
Grafarholt
By Reynisvatn
It is not unpleasant for the residents of the Grafarholt district, one of Reykjavík's newest districts, to know that it is bo...
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...
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 always was the little ...
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 surprises me. In a p...
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 Cathedral and Austurst...
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 Þvottalaugarnar to wash their ...
Figures on tourists
Figures on tourists
It is interesting to look at the composition of foreign tourists who visit Iceland. Ferðamálastofa / Icelandic Tourist Board compiles num...
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 affluent lived in the...
Panorama of the capital area
Panorama of the capital area
Kópavogskirkja, the oldest church in the second most populous municipality in the country, stands at the top of Bo...
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, especially in winter. Wh...
