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The Advent this year will be formally launched on 3 December at 16:00, with the lighting of the Christmas lights on the Oslo Tree in Austurvöllur.

Reykjavík is known for its high-quality restaurants with a selection of both local and international dishes.

The International performance festival Everybody´s Spectacular will be in Reykjavík from 15-19 November. Expect exceptional work, vibrant talks, heady parties, and a wide variety of additional formats that bring audiences and artists alike into conversation with contemporary performance.

One of Reykjavík's finest music festival, Iceland Airwaves, begins tomorrow and is on until 5 November. 

Yoko Ono invites all guests of the Illumination of the Imagine Peace Tower to write down their wishes and hang them on one of her wishing trees.

Yoko will be paying her annual visit to Iceland this October, to signal the illumination of Imagine Peace Tower in memory of John Lennon on Monday 9th October - his birthday.

Admission is free to Gröndal‘s House for the whole month of October.

Residents of the greater Reykjavík area continue be generally favourable towards tourists according to an opinion poll carried out this summer for Visit Reykjavík.

Icelandic has been spoken in Iceland since the country was settled in the 9th century and has changed little since then.

Cycle Music and Art Festival will take over Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum in September. The opening will be at 20:00 today Friday 1 September

A new arrangement for tourist bus/coach traffic in the capital city centre was approved by the Environment and Planning Committee on 3 May 2017 and by the city council on 11 May.

Reykjavík International Literary Festival will take place from 6-9 September for the13^th time. Its ambitious event schedule brings 17 internationally acclaimed authors from outside of Iceland together with some of the most well-known Icelandic authors.