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Thingvellir News Green Steps - First Step taken
22. January 2021

Green Steps - First Step taken

Thingvellir national park took it first green step December 18th thanks to the hard work of project manager Harald Schaller. As the national park got the documents today Einar Á. E. Sæmundsen, parks director and Harald Schaller posed in front of the Visitor centre. 

Further information about the green steps program can be found at the Environments Agency website.

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The THING Project
The THING Project is based on the Thing sites that are the assembly sites spread across North West Europe as a result of the Viking diaspora and Norse settlements.
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Thingvellir was accepted on the World Heritage list for its cultural values in 2004 at World Heritage Committee meeting in China.
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Thingvellir National Park was designated by a special law on the protection of the area, passed by the Alþing on 7th May, 1928.