Seydisfjordur Attractions

Seyðisfjörður is a terminal for ferries from the European mainland. It is pleasant town architecturally because nowhere in Iceland has a community of old wooden buildings been preserved so well as the 19th C Norwegian buildings that make up the old town center.

Seyðisfjörður is surrounded on three sides by mountains and a fronted by the 17km/10.5mi long fjord of the same name. In the valley above the town, the river Fjarðará cascades down in innumerable beautiful waterfalls to the Lón (the lagoon) at the head of the fjord.

The oldest telephone and telegraph station in Iceland is here dating back to 1906, when the first ocean cable was laid from Scotland.