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Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel The Ice hotel in the village of Jukkasjärvi, about 17 kilometres from Kirunα, in northern Sweden, was the world's first ice hotel. After its first opening in 1990, the hotel has been built each year from December to April. The hotel, including the chairs and beds, is constructed from snow and ice blocks taken from the nearby Torne River. The structure remains below freezing, around −5 °C.

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Jukkasjärvi Ice

HotelThe Ice hotel in the village

of Jukkasjärvi, about 17 kilometres from Kirunα, in northern Sweden, was the world's first ice hotel. After its first

opening in 1990, the hotel has been built each year from December to April.

The hotel, including the chairs and beds, is constructed from snow and ice

blocks taken from the nearby Torne River. The structure remains below

freezing, around −5 °C. 

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HISTORY

In 1989, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring 1990, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the same

area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the

visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the exhibition hall. They

slept in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skin, and were the first

guests of the "hotel".

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The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks taken 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 10,000 short tons of ice and 30,000 short tons

of snow. The ice is used for creating Icebar designs and ice glasses, which are used for ice sculpting classes, events and product launches

all over the world while the snow is used for building a strong structure for the building. About 1,000 short tons of what is left is used

in the construction of the next Icehotel.

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When the temperature drops , usually in mid-November, the

snow guns start spraying snow on huge inverted

catenary  shaped steel forms . After a couple of days, the

forms are removed, leaving a maze of free-standing

corridors of snow. In the corridors, dividing walls are

built in order to create rooms and suites. Ice blocks are then transported into the

hotel, where selected artists start creating the art and design of the perishable material. The Icehotel in

Jukkasjärvi opens in phases.

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 The first phase opens in the beginning of December. For each week, another section

of the hotel opens up for visitors and guests until the beginning of January. At this time,

the entire construction is completed.Source: wikipedia

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ROOM

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Manos Lianakis Giannis

Daskalakis