The Faroe Islands' small capital, with Tinganes, a rocky point where the Viking parliament met from around 900 AD, one of the oldest parliamentary sites in the world. Its red wooden buildings with turf roofs now house the government.
Walk around the harbour, see the Nordic House cultural centre, and the National Museum. The village of Kirkjubøur, a short drive south, has the ruins of a medieval cathedral and a 900-year-old wooden farmhouse.
A tiny village of turf-roofed houses and a white church above a tidal lagoon surrounded by steep mountains on the island of Streymoy.
A village of colourful houses on the northern tip of the island of Eysturoy, named after a deep sea-filled gorge that forms a natural harbour, with s…
A tiny village on the island of Vágar, beside the Múlafossur waterfall, which drops off a cliff straight into the ocean, with mountains and the islan…
The westernmost of the Faroe Islands, home to thousands of puffins and other seabirds in summer.
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