Alþingishúsið
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'''' (, The Parliament House'') is a classical 19th-century structure which stands by Austurvöllur in central Reykjavík, Iceland. It houses , the Icelandic parliament. The building was designed by Ferdinand Meldahl and built using hewn Icelandic dolerite from 1880 to 1881.
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- Austurvöllur
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- Reykjavík
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- Iceland
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- 1879
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- 1880
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- 1881
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- Republic of Iceland
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- Hewn dolerite
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- Ferdinand Meldahl
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'''' (, The Parliament House'') is a classical 19th-century structure which stands by Austurvöllur in central Reykjavík, Iceland. It houses , the Icelandic parliament. The building was designed by Ferdinand Meldahl and built using hewn Icelandic dolerite from 1880 to 1881.
The reliefs on the tympanums of the four outermost windows on the first floor represent the four landvættir of Iceland: a dragon, a vulture, a giant and a bull, momentarily appeased by Ingólfur Arnarson when he first landed in Iceland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alþingishúsið” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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