This Ice Hotel is rebuilt every year with 30,000 tons of snow and 4,000 tons of ice blocks using a design based on the architecture of medieval Cathedrals. Temperatures in the ice hotel vary between -4 to -9 degrees c even when outside temperatures drop below -30c.By late April the suns rays are beginning to take their toll and by June the ice hotel has returned to its liquid state.



"The dropping of the temperature to several degrees below zero in Jukkasjärvi marks the start of an ephemeral art endeavour. Using only frozen water form the Torne River, artists from all over the world gather in this small Swedish village, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, to create an exclusive art exhibition: ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi."