Casa’s guidebook

Casa
Casa’s guidebook

Food scene

The best bakery in town.
316 當地人推薦
Brauð & Co.
16 Frakkastígur
316 當地人推薦
The best bakery in town.
Really good coffee.
245 當地人推薦
Reykjavik Roasters
1 Kárastígur
245 當地人推薦
Really good coffee.
Affordable for a very nice Restaurant and maybe the best steakhouse in town.
14 當地人推薦
Hereford
53b Laugavegur
14 當地人推薦
Affordable for a very nice Restaurant and maybe the best steakhouse in town.
Hlemmur is our downtown main bus station. Its also a food court with many very good options of restaurants.
136 當地人推薦
Hlemmur Square
136 當地人推薦
Hlemmur is our downtown main bus station. Its also a food court with many very good options of restaurants.
Best vegetarian restaurant in Iceland
161 當地人推薦
Gló
161 當地人推薦
Best vegetarian restaurant in Iceland
Ice-cream with experience.
6 當地人推薦
Joylato
1 Njálsgata
6 當地人推薦
Ice-cream with experience.
7 當地人推薦
Ísbúðin litla Valdís
10 Frakkastígur
7 當地人推薦

Supermarket

I recommend buying all food in Bonus. There is one store very close to us. The address is Laugavegur 59, Kjörgarður
512 當地人推薦
Bónus
512 當地人推薦
I recommend buying all food in Bonus. There is one store very close to us. The address is Laugavegur 59, Kjörgarður
Its open 24/7 which is very convenient but be aware it might be the most expensive supermarket in Iceland.
152 當地人推薦
10-11
17 Austurstræti
152 當地人推薦
Its open 24/7 which is very convenient but be aware it might be the most expensive supermarket in Iceland.

Bus station

33 當地人推薦
Hlemmur
33 當地人推薦
Bus terminal for out of town buses.
120 當地人推薦
BSI Coach Terminal
120 當地人推薦
Bus terminal for out of town buses.

Swimmingpool

One of the best things about Iceland is all the thermol swimmingpools. They say in any neighborhood there is one swimmingpool is walking distance. You are very lucky because Reykjaviks oldest swimmingpool is just around the corner. Sundhöll Reykjavíkur or the Swimming Palace as it would be directly translated to English is the oldest pool in Iceland and was built in 1937 & proudly designed by Guðjón Samúelson, state architect. “Sundhöllin” is located right in the heart of Reykjavik, only a few minutes walk from Hallgrímskirkja church so just about 1 minute walk from this studio. I recommand Ending the day with going to the hot tub and sauna and begining it with it also. The opening hours are: Monday - Friday 06:30 - 22:00 Saturday - Sunday 08:00 - 22:00
484 當地人推薦
Sundhöllin
45a Barónsstígur
484 當地人推薦
One of the best things about Iceland is all the thermol swimmingpools. They say in any neighborhood there is one swimmingpool is walking distance. You are very lucky because Reykjaviks oldest swimmingpool is just around the corner. Sundhöll Reykjavíkur or the Swimming Palace as it would be directly translated to English is the oldest pool in Iceland and was built in 1937 & proudly designed by Guðjón Samúelson, state architect. “Sundhöllin” is located right in the heart of Reykjavik, only a few minutes walk from Hallgrímskirkja church so just about 1 minute walk from this studio. I recommand Ending the day with going to the hot tub and sauna and begining it with it also. The opening hours are: Monday - Friday 06:30 - 22:00 Saturday - Sunday 08:00 - 22:00

Sightseeing

Hallgrímskirkja church is Reykjavík's main landmark and its tower can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. It was designed by the late Guðjón Samúelsson in 1937, who was often inspired in his endeavours by the fascinating shapes and forms created when lava cools into basalt rock. Construction of the church began in 1945 and ended in 1986, with the tower completed long before the rest of the building. The crypt beneath the choir was consecrated in 1948, the steeple and wings completed in 1974 and the nave consecrated in 1986. The church features, most notably, a gargantuan pipe organ designed and constructed by the German organ builder Johannes Klais of Bonn. Standing tall at an impressive 15m and weighing a remarkable 25 tons, this mechanical action organ is driven by four manuals and a pedal, 102 ranks, 72 stops and 5275 pipes, all designed to reproduce powerful notes capable of filling the huge and holy space with a range of tones - from the dulcet to the dramatic. Its construction was completed in December 1992 and has since been utilised in a variety of recordings, including some by Christopher Herrick. Standing directly in front of the church, and predating it by 15 years, is a fine statue of Leifur Eiríksson (c. 970 – c. 1020) – the first European to discover America. Records suggest that Leifur landed on the shores of the new world in the year 1,000 A.D., that's 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The statue, which was designed by Alexander Stirling Calder was a gift from the United States in honour of the 1930 Alþingi Millennial Festival, commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the establishment of Iceland's parliament at Þingvellir in 930 AD.
743 當地人推薦
哈爾格里姆斯基爾基亞教堂
743 當地人推薦
Hallgrímskirkja church is Reykjavík's main landmark and its tower can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. It was designed by the late Guðjón Samúelsson in 1937, who was often inspired in his endeavours by the fascinating shapes and forms created when lava cools into basalt rock. Construction of the church began in 1945 and ended in 1986, with the tower completed long before the rest of the building. The crypt beneath the choir was consecrated in 1948, the steeple and wings completed in 1974 and the nave consecrated in 1986. The church features, most notably, a gargantuan pipe organ designed and constructed by the German organ builder Johannes Klais of Bonn. Standing tall at an impressive 15m and weighing a remarkable 25 tons, this mechanical action organ is driven by four manuals and a pedal, 102 ranks, 72 stops and 5275 pipes, all designed to reproduce powerful notes capable of filling the huge and holy space with a range of tones - from the dulcet to the dramatic. Its construction was completed in December 1992 and has since been utilised in a variety of recordings, including some by Christopher Herrick. Standing directly in front of the church, and predating it by 15 years, is a fine statue of Leifur Eiríksson (c. 970 – c. 1020) – the first European to discover America. Records suggest that Leifur landed on the shores of the new world in the year 1,000 A.D., that's 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The statue, which was designed by Alexander Stirling Calder was a gift from the United States in honour of the 1930 Alþingi Millennial Festival, commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the establishment of Iceland's parliament at Þingvellir in 930 AD.

Museum

One of my personal favorite museums. In 1909, Einar Jónsson offered all of his works as a gift to the Icelandic people on the condition that a museum be built to house them. This gift was not accepted by the Icelandic Parliament until 1914, however. The Parliament contributed 10,000 crowns to the construction of the museum, while a national collection yielded 20,000 crowns in private donations. It can be safely said that the Icelanders had from the very beginning shown a special appreciation for the art of their country's first sculptor and had fully realized the value of his gift to the nation. Jónsson chose to locate the museum on the top of Skolavorduhaed, "a desolate hill on the outskirts of town," as he puts it in his autobiography. The museum was the first building to be constructed on the top of the hill and Jónsson realized what possibilities this location, the highest in town, offered. Like some of his contemporaries, he dreamt of Skolavorduhaed becoming the political and cultural Acropolis of an independent Iceland. The museum was built according to a plan by the artist and it may thus be said that the museum building constitutes his biggest sculpture. The building served as his studio, as a gallery for his works and even as his home.
47 當地人推薦
Einar Jónsson Sculpture garden and museum
51 Njarðargata
47 當地人推薦
One of my personal favorite museums. In 1909, Einar Jónsson offered all of his works as a gift to the Icelandic people on the condition that a museum be built to house them. This gift was not accepted by the Icelandic Parliament until 1914, however. The Parliament contributed 10,000 crowns to the construction of the museum, while a national collection yielded 20,000 crowns in private donations. It can be safely said that the Icelanders had from the very beginning shown a special appreciation for the art of their country's first sculptor and had fully realized the value of his gift to the nation. Jónsson chose to locate the museum on the top of Skolavorduhaed, "a desolate hill on the outskirts of town," as he puts it in his autobiography. The museum was the first building to be constructed on the top of the hill and Jónsson realized what possibilities this location, the highest in town, offered. Like some of his contemporaries, he dreamt of Skolavorduhaed becoming the political and cultural Acropolis of an independent Iceland. The museum was built according to a plan by the artist and it may thus be said that the museum building constitutes his biggest sculpture. The building served as his studio, as a gallery for his works and even as his home.