Búðir

For the village also known as Buðir, see Fáskrúðsfjörður.

Búðir
Village
Church near Búðir, August 1989
Location of the Municipality of Snæfellsbær
Country	Iceland
Constituency	Northwest Constituency
Region	Western Region
Municipality	Snæfellsbær
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Búðir (also named Búdir) is a small hamlet in Búðahraun lava fields in Staðarsveit, which is in the western region of Iceland, on the westernmost tip of the Snaefellsnes peninsula where Hraunhafnará falls to the sea, the original old name of Búðir having been Hraunhöfn.

The village belongs to Snæfellsbær, a municipality that has its administrative centre in the town of Ólafsvík.

Overview

Just a cluster of old buildings, Búðir is the home of popular country inn and restaurant Hotel Búðir and a very old small church. The original old house of the restaurant and Hótel Búðir burned down on 21 February 2001, and had to be rebuilt completely, so as to resemble the original old inn house and to blend into the existing scenery of old buildings and natural surroundings.

It is believed that commercial ships and fishing vessels have been making their landing at Búðir all the way back to when Iceland's first inhabitants made their way there across the ocean, and commercial activity started there very early in recorded history. Originally the main function of Búðir was that to act as a commercial and trade hub for Snæfellsnes and the surrounding west coast region, during an extended period of Danish trade monopoly. Today the small hamlet of Búðir along with Hótel Búðir is a center of attraction in Snæfellsnes for tourists and various tourism activities.

Sources

• Vesturland.is, Afþreying og staðir 14 júlí 2010
• Þorsteinn Jósepsson, Steindór Steindórsson, Páll Líndal, Landið þitt Ísland, H-K, Örn og Örlygur, 1982

External links

• Búðir travel guide
• Hotel Búðir