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Akureyri - Culture |
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The
town sits only 60 miles from Arctic Circlhas, it has a warm climate and
some of the best weather in Iceland. Summer temperature frequently range
in the high 60's (20C), making the city the most popular weekend getaway
for citizens of Reykjavik.
Laxdalshus,
the town's oldest house that was built in 1795, has been restored and is
now protected. Nonni
House was the childhood home of the writer Jon Sveinsson (Nonni). Nonni is
best known for his books of his childhood experiences, written for young
readers. Akureyri
Church was consecrated in 1940 and dedicated to Matthias Jochumsson, a
poet and the author of the Icelandic National Anthem. In
Akureyri Museum there are preserved objects and photographs, which relate
to earlier days in Akureyri and the Eyjafjörður District. The
exhibitions attempt to present as true an image as possible of local
history for information and enjoyment for visitors. In
the museum grounds is a timber church from Svalbarð in Eyjafjörður
that was built in 1846. The garden around the museum building began as
Iceland's first forestry station with the first planting in 1899. Don’t
miss the Botanical Garden. When the Danish woman Mrs. Anna Schiöth and a
few other women of the town began planting in an uncultivated spot, few
people believed that trees and flowers could thrive here in this northern
latitude. But this spot was later to become the most northerly botanical
garden in the world and the pride of Akureyri. About 4000 South
of the town the results of the forestry work done by the dedicated members
of the local Forestry Association can be enjoyed in the Kjarnaland wood
and park. The
new woodland Vaglaskogur can be seen on the east shore of Pollurinn, as
the sheltered end of the fjord south of the town is called. |
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Akureyri
sits at the Eyjafjordur Fjord, one of the most breathtaking fjords in all
of Iceland. Rising up immediately behind the city are azure farmlands that
slope gently up to Granite Mountains. The mountains are capped by snow
year round, and in the winter they offer the best skiing in the country.
