This weekend, the Christmas season officially begins in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur with the opening of the Christmas Village and the lighting of the Christmas trees on Thorsplan and in Flensborgarh\u00f6fn. On Thorsplan, seventeen beautifully decorated Christmas houses have now been erected, where cheerful, singing vendors offer a wide variety of giftware, design and Icelandic handicrafts. The Christmas Village in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur will be open every Saturday and Sunday during Advent from 12 pm to 5 pm. An opening festival will take place from 6 pm to 8 pm on Friday evenings, with Christmas entertainment, a fireworks display and Father Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n This weekend, the Christmas adventure begins in the Christmas Village at Thorsplan. The Christmas Village is open every weekend during Advent and opens this year on Friday, 25th November at 18:00. There will be a scheduled programme on stage until 20:00 this Friday, with Felix Bergson keeping the Christmas cheer going. He and Sigr\u00fan \u00deorleifsd\u00f3ttir \u2013 better known as D\u00fana from the Burkninn Flower Shop \u2013 will together light the lights on the Christmas tree in Thorsplan and count down with guests on the first day of the Christmas Village. Father Christmas and Gr\u00fdla will be in the area, with singing and entertainment on stage and a fireworks display, courtesy of Fjar\u00f0ar and organised by the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Rescue Squad. The small, beautifully decorated Christmas houses will feature a variety of gifts, handicrafts and Icelandic design. \u00a0This year, families and groups of friends can also have their picture taken at the Fj\u00f6\u00f0ur shopping centre as a memento of a lovely time in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur during Advent.<\/p>\n At 3 p.m. on the first Saturday of Advent, the lights on the Cuxhaven tree in Flensburg Harbour will be switched on, and the Port of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur will host entertainment in the harbour area, featuring light music, a nursery school choir and Father Christmas. After the programme, guests are invited to enjoy hot chocolate and doughnuts on the K\u00e6na. The twinning between Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Cuxhaven has existed since September 1988, for almost three decades. These have taken a very diverse form, with the citizen-led twinning associations being the driving force behind cooperation in the fields of culture, sport, business and public administration. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is the only municipality in Iceland to maintain twinning links with Germany, and one element of their regular cooperation is that Cuxhaven presents the town with a magnificent Christmas tree as a gift each year for the Advent season. This tree is then erected in the harbour area by the memorial to the first German settlers.st. Luke's Lutheran Church in Iceland, which was built here in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur by German merchants in the mid-16th century. This tree will be erected in the harbour this weekend.<\/p>\n Thorsplan will be full of life and bustle around Christmas, and the little Christmas houses will have become a nationally renowned marketplace for art, craft and design. After 14 years, the Christmas Village has managed to captivate the entire nation and, increasingly, the tourists who choose to visit the country. The residents of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur themselves are also increasingly taking the opportunity and the platform that is created there for hosting home-grown events during Advent. Thus, entire extended families and groups of friends flock to the centre of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, popping into shops, art exhibitions, the little Christmas houses or the town's museums, specifically to enjoy a cosy time during Advent.<\/p>\n J\u00f3la\u00e6vint\u00fdri\u00f0 hefst \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i \u2013 tendrun lj\u00f3sa og J\u00f3la\u00feorp Um helgina hefjast j\u00f3lin formlega \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i me\u00f0 opnun J\u00f3la\u00feorps og tendrun lj\u00f3sa \u00e1 j\u00f3latrj\u00e1m \u00e1 Thorsplani og Flensborgarh\u00f6fn. \u00c1 Thorsplani hafa n\u00fa risi\u00f0 sautj\u00e1n fagurlega skreytt j\u00f3lah\u00fas \u00fear sem syngjandi gla\u00f0ir s\u00f6lumenn bj\u00f3\u00f0a fj\u00f6lbreytta gjafav\u00f6ru, h\u00f6nnun og \u00edslenskt handverk. J\u00f3la\u00feorpi\u00f0 \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i ver\u00f0ur opi\u00f0 alla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Christmas Village \u2013 a homely Christmas celebration on Thorsplan<\/h4>\n
Christmas entertainment and lighting of the Cuxhaven tree<\/h4>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur hosts at Christmas time<\/h4>\n
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