Things to Do in Faroe Islands (2026)

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Kollafjarðar Bygdarsavn

Kollafjarðar Bygdarsavn is the small local heritage museum of Kollafjørður, a long coastal village on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. Its mission is a simple, heartfelt one: to gather up the objects, photographs and stories of the community and keep them safe for the future. Rather than a grand public institution, it is a volunteer-run memory box for one Faroese village. Today the project's heart is a digitized archive. The team has focused first on scanning photographs taken before 1980, sorted by decade from the 1900s through the 1980s, alongside a catalogued collection of local artefacts. For anyone interested in everyday Faroese life a century ago, it is a quietly rewarding place to browse, whether online or on site.

Lutheran church

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Kirkjubøar kirkja / Ólavskirkjan

Saint Olav's Church — Ólavskirkjan, also called Kirkjubøar kirkja — is the oldest church in the Faroe Islands still in regular use. A low, whitewashed hall of unhewn stone sitting on the sea edge of tiny Kirkjubøur on southwestern Streymoy, it looks modest from the outside, but it is the surviving heart of a place that for centuries was the spiritual capital of the archipelago: the seat of the medieval Catholic bishops of the Faroes. Built in the 1200s and named for the Norwegian king St Olav, the church was the main church of the Faroese diocese from the early 1100s until the Reformation. What makes a visit feel special is not grandeur but depth: you are standing in a continuous place of worship nearly 800 years old, in a village whose name itself simply means "the church settlement," beside the soaring roofless walls of the never-finished Magnus Cathedral and the old bishop's-farmstead-turned-residence.

Mountain peak

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Blankeskaalefjeld

Blankeskaalefjeld is the steep mountain wall that rises directly above Blankskáli, a deserted settlement on the windswept southwest coast of Kalsoy in the northern Faroe Islands. The old Danish spelling on maps corresponds to the Faroese Blankskáli-fjall, the high ground that towers over the only village ever to have existed on Kalsoy's forbidding west side. This is not a summit you tick off on a marked trail with a car park and a sign. It belongs to a wild, roadless corner of the archipelago, and reaching its base means a real mountain walk from the small ferry port of Syðradalur. What draws people here is the story carved into these slopes: in 1809 an avalanche thundered down from this very mountain into the village below, a disaster that emptied Blankskáli for good. For fit, weather-wise hikers with a taste for remote landscapes and Faroese rural history, the peak and the lost village beneath it make a haunting half-day or day excursion, looking out across Leirvíksfjørður to the island of Eysturoy.

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Kollafjarðar Bygdarsavn

Kirkjubøar kirkja / Ólavskirkjan

Blankeskaalefjeld

Finding your next place…

A little more
of Faroe Islands.

Kollafjarðar Bygdarsavn

Kirkjubøar kirkja / Ólavskirkjan

Blankeskaalefjeld