Historic Cities
Walk Reykjavík in 1930
AI rebuilds Reykjavík street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Reykjavík of the Millennium, 1930
Reykjavík in 1930 is a small but energetic capital at the moment of Iceland’s thousand‑year Alþingi millennium, when the city fills with visitors, flags and civic ceremony. The walk crosses the new stone harbour and trawler quays, the market streets and saltfish yards, the parliament lawns and the Tjörnin pond, and finishes on a high point that looks across Faxaflói to Esja and Viðey.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Reykjavík as it stood in 1930 (“Reykjavík”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Approach from Faxaflói
- 2. Viðey Ferry Landing
- ↳ Viðey Manor Drawing Room · interior
- 3. Grandagarður Stone Harbour
- ↳ Harbourmaster's Office · interior
- 4. Trawler Quays
- ↳ Trawler Galley Below Deck · interior
- 5. Grandi Drying Yards
- ↳ Saltfish Curing Shed · interior
- 6. Tryggvagata Warehouse Row
- ↳ Warehouse Counting Office · interior
- 7. Lækjargata by the Stream
- 8. Posthusstræti & Hotel Borg
- ↳ Hotel Borg Dining Room · interior
- 9. Austurvöllur Park
- 10. Alþingishúsið Exterior
- ↳ Alþingi Assembly Chamber · interior
- 11. Bankastræti Shops
- ↳ Publisher's Back Room · interior
- 12. Laugavegur
- 13. Skólavörðuholt Slope
- ↳ Skólavörðuholt Schoolroom · interior
- 14. Arnarhóll
- 15. Fríkirkjan
- ↳ Fríkirkjan Nave · interior
- 16. Landakot Church
- ↳ Landakot Basilica Nave · interior
- 17. Tjörnin Promenade
- 18. City Pond Walk
- ↳ Municipal Records Office · interior
- 19. Melavöllur Sports Ground
- ↳ Sportsmen's Changing Room · interior
- 20. Laugardalur Hot Pools
- ↳ Communal Washhouse Pool Room · interior
- 21. Höfði House
- 22. Öskjuhlíð Summit