This is the view walking up Skólavörðustígur in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland. (Yes, I did cut-and-paste that street name from Google maps. There is no way my English language keyboard could do even half the letters in that word. And that's one single street name.) At the end of Skólavörðustígur, and in the center of the picture, is the ultra-modern Hallgrimskirkja, the "kirkja" at the end being the Icelandic word for "church," and the "Hallgrims" at the front referring to an Icelandic poet of that name. It is nominally a "cathedral," but I'm not sure how religious it really is.
Reykjavik is a small town, as European capitals go. The population of the city is a little more than 120,000, which means than it is home to about one-third of the total population of Iceland. So, by Icelandic standards, it is a megalopolis.
Visited June 2016.
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