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An ice hotel is a temporary hotel made up of snow and sculpted blocks of ice. [1] ... Lapland, Finland This page was last edited on 26 October 2024, at 03:49 ...
The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks from the Torne River; even the glasses in the bar are made of ice.Each spring, around March, Icehotel harvests tons of ice from the frozen Torne River and stores it in a nearby production hall with room for over 900 t (990 short tons) of ice and 27,000 t (30,000 short tons) of snow.
The village is a popular tourist accommodation during the winter months, from December until April, and is best known for its annual ice hotel, a hotel literally made from ice. [2] The wooden church is the oldest building in the village (built around 1607/1608) and is well known for its wooden carved altar piece triptych by Bror Hjorth.
Despite its varying configurations, the snow castle has a few recurring elements: a chapel, a restaurant and a hotel. The SnowRestaurant [1] has ice tables and seats covered with reindeer fur, as well as ice sculptures. The ecumenical SnowChapel [1] with 50–100 seats has seen numerous weddings of couples from as far away as Japan and Hong Kong.
The lower-lying east is dominated by boreal forest, stretching thousands of kilometres through Finland and Russia. Around 15 km east of Kiruna is a group of villages at the Torne River, most notably Jukkasjärvi, where an ice hotel is built each winter, attracting tourists from all
Relative to southern Finland Lapland stands out for its thick till cover. [22] [B] The hills and mountains are typically made up of resistant rocks like granite, gneiss, quartzite and amphibolite. [19] The ice sheet that covered Finland intermittently during the Quaternary grew out from the Scandinavian Mountains. [24]