Akureyri Hotels. All communications to the town are easy, whether by air or land. Air Iceland has scheduled flights many times a day from Reykjavik, and Nordurleid buses run on the 380-kilometre route between Akureyri and Reykjavik. Akureyri Hotels.

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Akureyri bustles with life the year round. The town?s 16,000 residents make it the most populous town by far outside the capital city area. Akureyri is an entrepreneurial and service centre for all of North Iceland. It is also a town of culture and education, building on a firm foundation. Two of Iceland's largest fisheries companies operate there, and the tourism industry is always growing in importance. Akureyri is a stone's throw from many of Iceland's natural treasures, and the town is a popular place for shorter or longer stops. An estimated 180,000 tourists visit the town each year.

In 1787 a trade monopoly for Iceland was abolished, and Akureyri was one of six trading towns in the country getting market town rights on the occasion. Danes or merchants related to Danes generally handled the trade since Iceland was under the Danish crown. During their long stay, Danes contributed many things to the people of Akureyri, such as potato gardens, forestry, architecture and culture.

The original 'Akureyri' is a small gravel bank below Búdargil formed from the deposits of a brook flowing through the gulley. The market town's first settled area was built there, and the town's oldest house, Laxdalshús at Hafnarstrćti 11, is right there. The house was built in 1795. Oddeyri, the second-oldest part of the town, was an ancient meeting place and assembly site. Oddeyri is mentioned in Víga-Glúm?s Saga and LjósvetningaSaga. Jón Arason, the last Catholic Bishop of Iceland, and his sons were convicted of treason there, and their property was confiscated by the King in 1551. The operations of the Gránufélag Company were in Oddeyri.

Founded in 1872, Gránufélag conducted Icelanders? first commerce from Akureyri. For a long time Akureyri's northern boundary was the Glerá River, and the settlement there, called Glerá Village, was outside the town. However, it was incorporated into the Town of Akureyri in 1995 and its name changed to the Glerá District.

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