Welcome to the Faroe Islands
Situated in the heart of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic at 62°00’N, the Faroe Islands lie northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and Norway. The archipelago is composed of 18 islands covering 1399 km2 and is 113 km long and 75 km wide, roughly in the shape of an arrowhead. Read more.
ANGLING
To go fishing in the Faroe Islands is a quite special experience, to encounter sheer isolation in the midst of such beautiful landscape.  Read more
THE FAROESE HOUSES
The grass roofs are probably the first things you notice, and these have been a feature of the were first settled. In the Viking Age farmhouse ...
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MUSICAL ISLANDS
Faroese music has seriously made its mark on the international music scene over the last year and when the  group, Boys in a Band, ...
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THE WORLDS SMALLEST CAPITAL
It began with a Viking “Thing”, followed by a mar­ket, later it be­came a thriving town, and today it is one of the smallest and most pleasant capital cities in the world. Read more
National Geographic
Most desirable destination
The Faroe Islands has recently come under scrutiny in one of the world’s great periodicals.
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THE SIX REGIONS
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