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The world's most northerly capital, Reykjavík has a sense of space and calm that comes as a breath of fresh air to travelers accustomed to the bustle of the traffic-clogged streets of Europe's other major cities, and often literally so. Although unrepresentative of the majority of the country for its relative urbanization, a visit here is a good place to obtain as true a picture as possible of this highly individual, often apparently contradictory society, secluded on the very edge of the Arctic. While it's true, for example, that Friday- and Saturday-night Reykjavík has earned the place a reputation for hedonistic revelry, with locals carousing for as long as the summer nights allow - despite the legendarily high price of alcohol here - the pace of life is in fact sedate. The tiny centre, for example, is more of a place for ambling around, taking in suburban streets and corner side cafés set against mountain and ocean scenery, rather than being somewhere to hurtle around between department stores and designer-clothes shops. Similarly, given the city's capital status, Reykjavík lacks the grand and imposing buildings found in the other Nordic capitals, possessing instead apparently ramshackle clusters of houses, either clad in garishly painted corrugated iron or drearily daubed in grey-brown pebbledash as protection against the ferocious North Atlantic storms. This rather unkempt feel, though, is as much part of the city's charm as the blustery winds that greet you as you exit the airport or the views across the sea to glaciers and the sheer mountains that form the backdrop to the streets. Even in the heart of this capital, nature is always in evidence - there can be few other cities in the world, for example, where graylag geese regularly overly the busy centre, sending bemused visitors, more accustomed to diminutive pigeons, scurrying for cover.
Today, amid the essentially residential city centre, with its collection of homes painted in reds, yellows, blues and greens, it is the Hallgrímskirkja, a gargantuan church made of white concrete towering over the surrounding houses, which is the most enduring image of Reykjavík. Below this, the elegant shops and stylish bars and restaurants that line the main commercial thoroughfare of Laugavegur , busy with shoppers seemingly undaunted by the inflated prices of goods - import taxes and cuts by middlemen are to blame - are a consumer's heaven, even if window-shopping is all you can afford.
With time to spare, it's worth venturing outside the city limits into Greater Reykjavík, for a taste of the Icelandic provinces - suburban style. Although predominantly an area of dormitory overspill for the capital, the town of Hafnarfjöoður, is large enough to be independent of Reykjavík and has a couple of museums and a busy harbor, though it's for the summer Viking Festival that the town is perhaps best known. Alternatively, the flat and treeless island of Viðey, barely ten minutes offshore of Reykjavík, is the place to come for magnificent views of the city and of the surrounding mountains - there are also some enjoyable walking trails here, which lead around the island in an hour or so.
The city also makes a good base for excursions around Reykjavík, including to three of Iceland's most popular attractions: the site of the old Alþing at Þingvellir, the waterspouts and waterfalls of Geysir and Gullfoss, and Skálholt church - all within simple reach by public transport - or, more expensively, on day-long guided tours from the city. Also worthwhile is the Reykjanes peninsula, a bleak lavafield that's as good an introduction as any to the stark scenery you'll find further into Iceland, and home to the mineral-rich waters of the Blue Lagoon - the most visited attraction in the country.
The City
Although small for a metropolis, compared with Iceland's other built-up areas, Reykjavík is a throbbing urban development. If you're planning to visit some of the countries more remote and isolated regions, you should make the most of the atmosphere generated by this bustling port, with its buzzing nightlife and highbrow museums. The collections in the centrally located National Museum and Árni Magnússon Manuscript, for example, offer a fine introduction to Iceland's stirring past, while outdoors, in the streets and parks you'll find the outstanding work of sculptors Ásmundur Sveinsson and Einar Jónsson, as well as in two permanent exhibitions - indeed, contemporary art has a high profile in a whole host of art shops and galleries. And yet even with all of this around you, you can never forget that you're bang in the middle of the North Atlantic, with your nearest neighbors being Greenland and the North Pole - a remoteness that is at the core of Reykjavík's appeal.
The city centre is split roughly into two halves by the brilliant waters of the large, naturally occurring pond, Tjörnin. To the north and west of this lie, respectively, the busy fishing harbor, full of modern hi-tech trawlers and Iceland's now decomissioned whaling fleet, and Vesturbær, the city's oldest district, dating back in parts to the Settlement, now largely given over to administration, eating, drinking and entertainment. It also one of the city’s most likeable and picturesque quarters, comprises a spread of well-to-do residential streets, at odds with the concrete apartment blocks on the eastern outskirts of the city. Another gaggle of bars and restaurants are located on Austurstræti and Hafnarstræti - the location of the Icelandic parliament and the main post office, studded with multicoloured rooves and facades, reaching up the hill that begins at Tjörnin's western edge. East of the pond, things become altogether more commercial, as the gently sloping main drag, Laugavegur, the city's main shopping street, packed with glitzy designer boutiques and the location for most of the city's bars, restaurants, shops and cinemas, leads towards the bus terminal, Hlemmur, which marks the city's edge. |
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