2024

KOLAPORTIÐ FLEA MARKET

Markets
5/5
• 5 reviews
A great place to discover popular Iceland, the only flea market in the ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

THE SUN TRAVELER (SÓLFAR)

Works of art to see
4.8/5
• 6 reviews
A sculpture emblematic of the capital and one of the must-see photos in ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

PERLAN

Contemporary architecture
4.3/5
• 4 reviews
Big glass bubble on top of the hill, an attractive site hard to miss in ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

CROSS-CONTINENTAL BRIDGE

Works of art to see
4.3/5
• 4 reviews
Bridge indicated by signs with free access and above all symbolic to the ... Read more
 Le Sud De La Péninsule
2024

ALTHING

Public buildings to visit
4/5
• 2 reviews
Althing meeting two weeks a year, an open-air parliament, enacting laws, ... Read more
 Þingvellir
2024

PARLIAMENT (ALÞING)

Public buildings to visit
4/5
• 1 review
Building of gray basalt, heavy and massive, the work of a Danish architect, ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

HÖFÐI HOUSE

Places associated with famous people to visit
White prefabricated house in Norway in 1909, built to accommodate the first ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

GOVERNMENT HOUSE (STJÓRNARRAÐIÐ)

Public buildings to visit
Slightly elevated building, built in 1771 as a prison and now housing the ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

BERGÞÓRSHVOLL FARM

Places associated with famous people to visit
A farmhouse located near Route 1, with the remains of the foundations, ... Read more
 Hvolsvöllur
2024

HLIÐARENDI

Places associated with famous people to visit
A place with grassy lands, on the northern flank of the Fljotsdalur, a wide ... Read more
 Hvolsvöllur
2024

HOUSE OF NONNI (NONNAHÚS)

Places associated with famous people to visit
One of the oldest houses in Akureyri, the birthplace of the Jesuit pastor ... Read more
 Akureyri
2024

ÁSMUNDUR SVEINSSON SCULPTURE MUSEUM

Places associated with famous people to visit
Curious building built by the artist Asmundur Sveinsson, housing his ... Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

HÖSKULDSSTAÐIR FARM

Places associated with famous people to visit

This area (now located near Highway 59) belonged to Höskuldur Dalakollsson and his wife Jórunn, whose progeny appears prominently in many sagas. Their daughter is only Hallgerður to the Long Legs, wife of Gunnar de Hlídarendi in the Saga of Njáll le Brûlé. The Saga of the Val-au-Salmon staged Bolli Þorleiksson, the son of Þorleikur, the legitimate son of Höskuldur. But Höskuldur also has an illegitimate son, Ólafur le Paon, with an Irish slave who, herself, is the illegitimate daughter of an Irish king…

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 Búðardalur
2024

HOUSE OF GUNNAR GUNARSSON (GUNNARSSTOFNUN)

Places associated with famous people to visit
Former house of Gunnar Gunarsson, to better know his life and his work, ... Read more
 Egilsstaðir
2024

TOWN HALL (RÁÐHÚS)

Public buildings to visit
City Hall covered with foam at the entrance, to find tourist information Read more
 Reykjavík
2024

ILLUGASTAÐIR

Places associated with famous people to visit
One of the best places to see seals with binoculars, and the site of ... Read more
 Vatnsnes
2024

AKRANESVITI LIGHTHOUSES

Monuments to visit
Ideal place to hope to admire some aurora borealis, with two lighthouses in ... Read more
 Akranes
2024

BESSASTAÐIR

Public buildings to visit
Residence consisting of a large white farmhouse, a manor house and a church ... Read more
 Álftanes
2024

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER

Towers to visit
Artwork designed by Yoko Ono that lights up from October 9 to December 8 in ... Read more
 Viðey
2024

GARÐSKAGI

Monuments to visit
The most remote point of the peninsula where there are 2 lighthouses in ... Read more
 Garður