Tórshavn

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Dansk: Tórshavn er hovedstaden på Færøerne.
English: Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands.
Norsk bokmål: Tórshavn er hovedstaden på Færøyene.

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Maps [edit]

  • Size and position of the municipality (green). The city area is red.

  • Position map marking downtown Tórshavn.

  • Town map

  • The harbour

Photos [edit]

  • View over central Tórshavn from the King’s Monument (Kongaminni).

  • Tórsgøta on an early October morning, central Tórshavn.

  • The Ovastu Hoydalar neighbourhood in Tórshavn north (Hoyvík).

  • Bryggjubakki street at night

  • Central Tórshavn (Bryggjubakki and Undir Bryggjubakka) with cathedral.

  • City bus on the Norðari Ringvegur.

  • Alleyway in Tinganes.

  • Harbour view from the King’s Monument (Kongaminni).

  • Old Tórshavn 1864, the Løgting in the top left

  • The peninsula Tinganes is seat of the Faroese Government in Tórshavn

  • Eystaravág (Eastern Bay or Harbour)

  • Eystaravág

  • Vestaravág (Western Bay or Harbour)

  • Café Natur and Norröna

  • Tórshavn and Farstøðin, the bus station and the ferry port of Smyril and Norrøna.

  • Old houses in Tinganes, Tórshavn

  • Tórshavn in the winter

  • Torshavn in october

  • Faroe boat in Tórshavn

  • Café in Eystaravág

  • Memorial for the killed fishermen during World War II.

  • Skansin

  • British gun from World War II at Skansin.

  • Nordic House in the Faroes (see gallery there).

  • Hotel Føroyar.

  • Vágsbotnur and Tórsgøta. The buildings are Miðlahúsið and Hotel Tórshavn.

  • First photo of a football match in the Faroe Islands 1909

  • Niels Finsens gøta, Tórshavns only walking street

  • Tórshavn Cathedral and the buildings on Bryggjubakki.

  • Vesturkirkjan and Hans Pauli Olsen, by his own work

  • Tinganes

  • Blick vom Tórshavner Stadtpark zur katholischen. Kirche

  • Kiefern im Stadtpark

  • Teich im Stadtpark

  • Spazierweg am Bach Havnará im Stadtpark

  • Blick vom Stadtpark

  • Stadtpark - nördlicher Teil mit Kunstmuseum

  • Blick über den Park Prestlág zur Kirche Vesturkirkja.

  • Blick zum Park Býarpark

  • Blick vom Park Býarpark zur Universität

  • Blick vom Park Býarpark zum Hafen

  • Denkmal am Park Býarpark

  • Blick vom Wald Í Kerjum über Tórshavn zur Insel Nólysoy

  • Blick vom Wald Í Kerjum über Tórshavn

  • Blick zum Wald im Tal Hoydalur

  • Blick zur Baumschule im Wald Mid-Hoydalur

  • Blick zum Wald Mid-Hoydalur, südlicher Teil

  • Blick zum Wald Mid-Hoydalur, nördlicher Teil

Lithographs of 1839 [edit]

  • Havnará, Tórshavn

  • Off Tórshavn

  • Tórshavn

Stamps [edit]

  • FR 034: The old National Library (1978).

  • FR 035: New National Library.

  • FR 053: Ingálvur av Reyni: Scetches from the old Tórshavn #1. Stamp set from 1981.

  • FR 054: #2.

  • FR 055: #3.

  • FR 056: #4.

  • FR 106: Stanley expedition 1789. View over Tórshavn, which had 700 inhabitants that time. Stamp of 1985.

  • FR 116: Lighthouse Skansin, Tórshavn 1909. Note the lovely detail on the right: a sheep running free - in the capital. Stamp of 1985.

  • FR 133-135: Stamp sheet Tórshavn 1782 of 1986.

  • FR 133.

  • FR 134.

  • FR 135.

  • FR 154 of 1987: Zacharias Heinesen - Eystara Vág.

  • FR 155: Zacharias Heinesen - Vestara Vág.

  • FR 173 of 1989: The church in downtown Tórshavn.

  • FR 211 of 1991: Bryggjubakki.

  • FR 212: Townhall.

  • FR 272: Listasavn Føroya - Art Museum of the Faroes (1995).

  • FR 281: The Catholic church Saint Mary.

  • FR 299: Janus Kamban: Undir kjallara 1991, showing the shore at Tinganes. One of the Faroese stamps 1996.

  • FR 330 of 1998: Ólavsøka - Horses on parade in Tórshavn.

  • FR 331: Ólavsøka - Clergymen and politicians on parade.

  • FR 346 of 1999: The waterfall Svartifossur in Hoydalar.

  • FR 365 of 2000: Sanna av Skarði (l.) and Anna Suffía Rasmussen (r.), the wives of Símun av Skarði and Rasmus Rasmussen in front of the Faroese Folk High School in Tórshavn.

  • FR 386 of 2001: Old post office.

  • FO 530 of 2005: Yviri við Strond í Havn 1926 (Seaside near Tórshavn), 48x65 cm, by Jógvan Waagstein.

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