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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Judges upstairs, prisoners downstairs
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
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...
