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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...

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...

Western settlement

Western settlement About 1,200 people now live in Vesturbyggð on the southern side of the Vestfjords, which extends from Barðaströnd and Rauðisandur at Breið...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 century in 1900. 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 roughly the same amou...

Askja waking up?

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 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

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...