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<\/p>\nA new historical plaque, summarising the history of East Street in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, was unveiled at a small but pleasant ceremony on our Icelandic national day, 17th June. At the same time, a new and interesting historical walking tour of East Street was launched. The Austurgata Festival would have celebrated its 10th anniversary on 17th June, but due to social distancing restrictions, the festival was postponed until 2021. The information board, which stands below the Fr\u00edkirkjan, was produced by the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum and features historical images and
\nText about the street in Icelandic and English. The virtual historical walking tour is a collaboration between Wapp and the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Local History. <\/p>\n
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On a history walk along Austurgata, you can experience \u201eold Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\u201c in a fun way and learn about the town's history and culture at the same time. This tour is illustrated with pictures from the old days. The health capital of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Wapp \u2013 Walking app have partnered to publish walking routes in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in the Wapp guide app. When Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur was granted borough status in 1908, there was no planning of the settlement and few proper streets in the town. Three years later, a committee was established with the task of naming the streets and paths in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and numbering the houses in the town. The committee members named most of the existing streets and lanes in the town, but in the areas where the lack of planning was most pronounced, this rule was set aside and the areas were simply called districts, with houses numbered within them. The area where Austurgata is today was known as the so-called East Quarter at the time. Austurgata was laid out between 1914 and 1918, but today there are 15 houses on the street that are older than the road itself. The houses on East Street form an exceptionally cohesive streetscape of early 20th-century architecture, and although the street was largely built up during this period, the design and style of the houses are very varied. <\/p>\n
Several walking routes in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are on the app, all provided by the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Click \u201eMap\u201c once the route has been opened, and \u201eYes\u201c to the question \u201eDo you want to buy this tour?\u201c. The route will then appear free of charge.<\/p>\n
The routes include maps, GPS coordinates, photographs and information in Icelandic and English.<\/p>\n
It is hoped that this collaboration will make it easier for residents of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and others to access information about interesting walking routes, historical insights into cultural heritage, and outdoor recreation opportunities in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and encourage increased physical activity and time spent outdoors.<\/p>\n
About the app<\/strong><\/p>\n The app is a digital database of route descriptions in Iceland, delivered via an app for iPhone and Android smartphones. The route descriptions cover the entire country, featuring GPS tracks and photographs, and are delivered to users in English and Icelandic. The route descriptions are downloaded to the phone and used without a data connection. Stokkur ehf. develops the app and Sams\u00fdn ehf. provides the map base for Iceland.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" N\u00fdtt s\u00f6guskilti sem reifar s\u00f6gu Austurg\u00f6tunnar \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i var v\u00edgt vi\u00f0 f\u00e1menna en g\u00f3\u00f0a ath\u00f6fn \u00e1 \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ardegi okkar \u00cdslendinga \u00feann 17. j\u00fan\u00ed s\u00ed\u00f0astli\u00f0inn. \u00c1 sama t\u00edma var sett \u00ed lofti\u00f0 n\u00fd og \u00e1hugaver\u00f0 s\u00f6guganga um Austurg\u00f6tuna. Austurg\u00f6tuh\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0in hef\u00f0i \u00e1tt 10 \u00e1ra afm\u00e6li 17. j\u00fan\u00ed en s\u00f6kum samkomutakmarkana var h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0inni fresta\u00f0 til 2021. S\u00f6guskilti\u00f0, sem stendur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17707,"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-14362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362","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=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}