Ishotellet i Jukkasjärvi

( Icehotel (Jukkasjärvi) )

The Icehotel is a hotel in northern Sweden, about 17 kilometers (11 mi) from Kiruna. It is rebuilt each year with snow and ice in the village of Jukkasjärvi and is the world's first ice hotel.

After its first opening in 1990, the hotel has been rebuilt each year from December to April. The hotel, including the chairs and beds, is constructed from snow and ice blocks taken from the nearby Torne River. Artists are invited to create different rooms and decorations made of ice. The structure remains below freezing point, around −5 °C (23 °F).

 Jukkasjärvi Icehotel interior. Sculptures by Jörgen Westin

In 1989, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring 1990, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the same area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the igloo at the exhibition hall. They slept in the igloo in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skins, and were the first guests of the "hotel".[1]

^ "Celebrating 30 years of Icehotel, the coolest hotel in the world". visitsweden.com. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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bjaglin from Lund, Sweden - CC BY 2.0
Lars Thulin - CC BY-SA 4.0
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