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Reykjavík Children's Culture Festival kicking off today
Children's culture, culture for children and culture with children, these are the three main aspects of the Reykjavík Children’s Culture Festival: a week-long arts and culture festival dedicated to children and youth. The Reykjavík Children’s Culture Festival was launched in 2010 and is already a huge success. Dedicated exclusively to children and young people in Reykjavík up to the age of 16,…
Reykjavík Pride 2016
Reykjavík Pride festival started today when the Mayor of Reykjavík, Mr. Dagur B. Eggertsson, began the painting of a rainbow in the stairs in front of Reykjavík Junior College followed by volunteers who will finish the painting. The theme of Reykjavík Pride this year is ‘Our History’ – the history of queer people, which reference to how the past has shaped ourselves and the society.
New Year’s bonfires and areas for fireworks in downtown Reykjavík
New Year’s Bonfires (Áramótabrennur) will be in 10 places in the Reykjavík Capital area this year and in a similar manner as before. You can join the locals and experience old age customs and traditions of the New Year’s celebration. New Year’s Bonfires are lit at 20:30 in all places except at Skerjafjörður and Úlfarsfell. These are the locations for the 2019 New Year’s Bonfires in…
Luggage Lockers
Need a safe and convenient place to store your bags while exploring Reykjavík?
10 Reasons to go to a Music Festival in Reykjavik
Timeout Magazine says that Iceland is basically nature’s version of Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, with everything your imagination can handle on display; spurting geysers, steaming hot springs, and lights dancing in the sky.
Reykjavík has won Winter Destination of the Year – in the 2017 LTG European Awards
The Luxury Travel Guide Awards team has announced that Reykjavík has won Winter Destination of the Year – in the 2017 LTG European Awards
City Hall
City Hall is the home of a huge 3D printed map of Iceland on the ground floor. The building itself is also quite interesting as the architects conceived Reykjavík City Hall primarily as an interface where the contrasts of nature and city intertwine into a complex, three dimensional whole.
Literary Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital, and in fact Iceland’s only city, and as such it plays a vital role in all cultural life in the country. The city is home to Iceland’s main cultural institutions, boasts a flourishing arts scene and is renowned as a creative city with a diverse range of cultural happenings and dynamic grassroots activities. Most of the country’s writers live in the city, and it also…
Article about the Reykjavík City Card on Routes North
Planning a trip to Reykjavik? Want to see all the sights for as little as possible? Well, you probably already know that Iceland is not the cheapest country to visit. And perhaps you’re on the look out for some bargain ways to save a few krónur during your travels.
Hotel Reykjavík Saga
Hotel Reykjavik Saga is an elegant 4-star hotel that opened in July 2022. Ideally situated at the very heart of the Reykjavik city centre, the hotel is a stone's throw away from picturesque Lake Tjörnin, the cathedral, art museum, shops and restaurants. The hotel is on Lækjargata, a historic street in the centre of Reykjavik and has been designed with full respect to the surrounding buildings…