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Travel to Kirkjubøur, visa requirements / Get around / Kirkjubøur attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Kirkjubøur souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Kirkjubøur nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Contact / Get outKirkjubøur is a vilage in Southern Streymoy.
Travel to Kirkjubøur - Visa Requirements
Bus from Torshvn Car on singed road going west from the southern part of the ring road.
Tours and Getting around Kirkjubøur
Walking - it's not big.
Kirkjubøur tourist attractions and sightseeing
- Never completed Magnus cathedral - currently having its walls dried out for restoration (2008) and, being covered by a huge tarpaulin, not pretty from outside but the interior still has appeal. The cathedral, less roof and tower, was built when Kirkjubøur was the most important place in the islands. It's hardly surprising that it should have been overtaken bu Torshavn with its better anchorage but quite astonishing that the cathedral could ever have progressed as far as it did in this tiny community.
- St Olav's church, the last of several churches to occupy this site. Its gates suggest something grander within but it is very plain, though far from unpleasant. Wonderfully carved pew ends from an earlier building can now be seen in Torshavn Museum.
- Roykstovan a museum using part of a farmhouse, with the owners living in the other part.
Kirkjubøur city tours
Kirkjubøur souvenirs and shopping
Kirkjubøur Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Kirkjubøur nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Kirkjubøur cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
Contact
Get out
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