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

Position map marking downtown Tórshavn.

Town map

The harbour

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

Havnará, Tórshavn

Off Tórshavn

Tórshavn

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.