Pingdom Check

Flights to Nashville with a Touch of Iceland

Welcome to Nashville! Renowned as ‘Music City’, this upbeat southern gem is a magnet for musicians and music lovers from around the world.

Icelandair is adding Nashville to its schedule in 2025, flying four times a week from May 16 until October 27. Book your flight to Nashville from Iceland, the UK or Europe for your chance to experience hot chicken and honky-tonks alongside the welcoming locals.

Before you explore Nashville’s musical highs, how about comparing them with Reykjavík's offerings? When you book flights to Nashville with Icelandair you have the opportunity to add a stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare.

Exploring Nashville

There are around 700,000 Nashvillians, making this the largest city as well as the capital of the state of Tennessee. If cities had soundtracks, Nashville’s would be like no other. It would be a mix of music’s past, present, and future – with sounds of country, of course, plus bluegrass, rock, pop, Americana, gospel, classical, jazz and blues, blending in harmony.

You might be curious about Nashville's ‘Grand Ole Opry’ – this is in fact a live country-music radio broadcast that began in Nashville in 1925, setting the stage for the city’s future as a country-music powerhouse. It was once broadcast from Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, but from 1974 it’s broadcast up to five nights a week from the Grand Ole Opry House.

Dining in Nashville

Nashville is a dining hotspot, a foodie favorite with innovative chefs regularly opening on-trend restaurants. Great neighborhoods to explore at dinnertime include Germantown, East Nashville, and The Gulch.

Three local dishes should be on your 'must try' list: hot chicken, barbecue, and ‘meat and three’. Hot chicken was created in Nashville a century ago; it's fried chicken doused in fiery spices, served on white bread with a pickle. Try it at its birthplace, the famed Prince’s Hot Chicken. Tennessee is known for its low-and-slow barbecue and Nashville is no exception; pork ribs are a specialty. The third in the trio is ‘meat and three’, served at unfussy cafeteria-style diners. Choose a meat dish (fried chicken, meatloaf etc), accompanied by three sides. A sweet tea and slice of pie round out a classic meal.

Bars and live music in Nashville

Nashville is a buzzy, music-filled destination, and downtown Nashville’s Broadway rivals the best-known party streets in the USA. Join the crowds as they seek out the most appealing live country music, rooftop patios, and line dancing in the honky-tonks (a honky-tonk is simply a bar that plays country music). Look out for the purple-toned Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a world-renowned honky-tonk that’s been operating since 1960.

Another quintessential Nashville experience is the Grand Ole Opry House, an iconic country music venue northeast of downtown. On a number of nights each week, country stars perform short sets in front of a live audience. Diehard fans can also take a backstage tour. The Opry was once held in the Ryman Auditorium, a landmark downtown venue that still hosts concerts and events.

Muut kohteet

Slide 1 of 60

Varaa matkasi tänään

Odotamme näkevämme sinut lennollamme pian!