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Icehotel

The Icehotel is a hotel rebuilt each year with snow and ice in the village of Jukkasjärvi, in northern Sweden, about 17 kilometres from Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden. It is the world's first and largest hotel built out of snow and ice. After its first opening in 1990, the hotel has been rebuilt each year from December to April and was celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2020 when we stayed there. 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 by ice. No two rooms are the same; the rooms are unique works of art. Besides bedrooms, there is a bar, with glasses made of ice and an ice chapel that is popular with marrying couples. The interior of the structure remains around -5 °C although it can be much colder than this outside, especially at night.
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