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Icehotel
A hotel carved anew every winter from Torne River ice, its rooms designed by artists from around the world.
- Open
- Every day; the winter ice rooms from about December to April
- Price
- Paid; day visits by guided tour
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Marknadsvägen 63, 981 91 JukkasjärviDirections
- Getting There
- About 20 minutes by bus or taxi east of Kiruna.
Why Go
Since 1990, blocks of ice have been cut from the river each spring, stored, and built into a new hotel from December, with a chapel, an ice bar and suites sculpted by invited artists. It melts back into the river in spring; a smaller part, kept frozen all year, lets you see the ice art in summer too.
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