Village Profile: Fjallabyggd – A Skier’s Dream

Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sport enthusiasts can also go ice skating, rent snowmobiles and try ice fishing. Fjallabyggd (pop. 2,200) is a municipality in northeast Iceland uniting the towns Ólafsfjördur and Siglufjördur. The distance between the towns will drop to 15 kilometers from up to 234 kilometers with the opening of a new tunnel in 2009. Iceland Review

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