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 Great Travels
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Icelandic Holidays: Icelandic Holidays (all business closes) Good Friday; Easter; Whitsunday; first Sunday after the summer solstice; Independence Day (June 17, Iceland's BIG DAY); Bank Holiday (first Monday in August); Sovereignty Day (Dec, 1); Christmas.
Some Nuggets of Fact Iceland traffic drives to the left, so watch out.
4, 5. Icelandic Art, Ancient and Modern The National Art Gallery, a splendid modern building, houses Icelandic treasures dating back, in some cases, to about 900. There are beautiful wood carvings, finely fashioned drinking horns, Viking Ornaments in various materials and early ecclesiastical vestments and works of religious art. There is one original sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose father was an Icelandic wood carver.
1,2,3. Festivals, Pageantry and Fairs Icelandic Independence Day, on June 17, commemorating the founding of the republic, is the chief day of Icelandic festivities, but the permanent setting for classical and popular dramas, occasional operas and frequent symphonic concerts is the National Theater in Reykjavik. On at least 220 of the year's 365 eve ings something is happening in the auditorium of this busy building. Exotic plays such as Life with Father and Death of a Salesman have been given in the Icelandic language with outstanding success, and, on loftier levels, Shakespeare is a perennial favorite.
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