Tinganes
Tinganes is the historic location of the Faroese landsstýri, and is a part of Tórshavn. The name means "parliament jetty" or "parliament point" in Faroese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tórshavn Cathedral and Skansapakkhusið.
Tórshavn Cathedral
Church
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Tórshavn Cathedral is the second oldest received church of the Faroe Islands, on Tinganes in the old town of Tórshavn. Painted white, and roofed with slate, it was established in 1788.
Skansapakkhusið
Government office
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Skansapakkhusið is a government office.
Skansin
Fort
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Skansin is a historic fortress in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. Skansin is located on a hill beside the port of Tórshavn. The fort was built in 1580 by Magnus Heinason to protect against pirate raids of the town, after he himself was nearly caught up in one such raid.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tórshavn and Argir.
Tórshavn
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.
Argir
Village
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Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning.
Hoyvík
Village
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Tórshavn is the capital of the Faroe Islands. At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD. Hoyvík is situated 2½ km north of Tinganes.
Tinganes
- Type: Quarter
- Description: old district of Thorshavn
- Categories: peninsula and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.00801° or 62° 0′ 29″ northLongitude
-6.76929° or 6° 46′ 9″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
9CJM265J+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 12410233693OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Tinganes” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tinganes penintsula”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Тынганес”
- Belarusian: “Тынганес”
- Belarusian: “Тынганэс”
- Catalan: “Tinganes”
- Chinese: “庭加内斯”
- Chinese: “廷加內斯”
- Danish: “Tinganes”
- Dutch: “Tinganes”
- Faroese: “Tinganes”
- French: “Tinganes”
- German: “Tinganes”
- Hungarian: “Tinganes”
- Icelandic: “Þinganes”
- Indonesian: “Tinganes”
- Italian: “Tinganes”
- Latvian: “Tinganesa”
- Low German: “Tinganes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tinganes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tinganes”
- Norwegian: “Tinganes”
- Ossetian: “Тинганес”
- Polish: “Tinganes”
- Portuguese: “Tinganes”
- Russian: “Тинганес”
- Swedish: “Tinganes”
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