ISLANDS & POLAR

Islands & Polar Regions

La llanura del parlamento de Islandia, la península Antártica, la isla de Pascua y los templos polinesios: hasta los lugares más remotos tienen su propia historia y sus tabúes.

Foto: Pavel.shyshkouski · CC BY-SA 4.0

City guides

Empiece por una ciudad

Cada guía de ciudad incluye cronología, historias de personajes, lugares imprescindibles, fiestas y normas locales.

Reykjavík

4 lugares

'Smoky Bay': a Viking settlement and the world's northernmost capital

Мурманск Murmansk

Murmansk

2 lugares

The largest city inside the Arctic Circle: an ice-free port, icebreakers and the aurora over the Barents Sea

Dyrhólaey seen from the black sand beach

ClásicoSouth Iceland (near Vík)

Black Sand Beach (Reynisfjara)

A black beach with basalt cliffs and the 'petrified troll' sea stacks.

Wild harbour seals in the glacier lagoon

ClásicoSoutheast Iceland

Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon

A lagoon of floating ice calved from Vatnajökull, with 'diamond ice' on the black beach

ClásicoSouthwest Iceland (Golden Circle)

Þingvellir National Park

The site where Icelanders founded their parliament, the Althing, in 930 — one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world.

Hallgrímskirkja, the city landmark inspired by basalt columns

ClásicoReykjavík, Iceland

Reykjavík

The Arctic capital of the Vikings' descendants, where a basalt-inspired church and elf legends coexist.