West of Iceland
This is where the journeymen ventured into the depths of the earth in the famous Jules Verne book, A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Litlibær was built in 1895, a timber house with stone side walls and a turf roof. Around 20 people lived in Litlibær at one point and the last inhabitants moved out as late as 1969. There is ...
The only preserved wooden wind-powered grain mill in the country can be found in Vigur. The goldsmith Daníel Hjaltason is reported to have built the mill around 1860. The windmill has since ...
The old church at Reykholt was built between 1886 and 1887 and was restored as close to its original form as possible between 2001 and 2006. It is situated at Snorrastofa, the former ...
The main exhibition of Ólafsdalur are the recently found remains of a Viking longhouse from the 9th-10th century. Ólafsdalur is a small valley, surrounded by high mountains, where the first ...
An interesting museum where you can travel back in time and enjoy the history of Akranes and its surroundings with special emphasis on the fishing industry. The museum’s exhibition is in ...
Snorrastofa was founded in memory of Snorri Sturluson, Iceland’s most important saga writer, chieftain, and poet, who settled in Reykholt in 1206 and was murdered there in the fall of 1241. ...
- 1
- 2
