Streymoy

Streymoy is the largest of the Færoe Islands and includes the capital, Torshavn. There are numerous places of interest and/or beauty. Kirkjubour is a most interesting place with a ruin of a cathedral, St Magnus, that was never finished and a church, St Olaf's, that goes back to the 12th century - though not the present building. At the north of the island there are roads to Tjornuvik, a delectable village with fabulous views of sea stacks off the north of the neighbouring island of Eysturoy and to Saksun, with a good museum and a lagoon formed by the sea.