Video: Quiet idyll of the Faroe Islands: cozy villages and picturesque nature
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Faroe Island Group located in the heart of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and Norway. The 18 islands that make up this group are home to about 50,000 inhabitants, who have developed a unique culture and language over the years. The islands captivate with their unearthly beauty: green trees, hilly terrain blown by a gentle breeze.
The landscape is predominantly hilly, although there are picturesque valleys, and sea cliffs, and mountain cliffs. With the arrival of summer, the Faroe Islands are literally buried in greenery, and there is simply no better time to travel here. There are more than a hundred small villages on the islands. Most of them lie right by the ocean, and visitors may think that they are all alike. Natural greenery is successfully complemented by houses painted in bright colors, or traditionally black buildings. Since the houses are located very close to each other, an atmosphere of coziness and comfort always reigns on the islands. A pleasant addition to the village idyll is the herds of sheep grazing all year round.
Although the history of the Faroe Islands goes back about 14 centuries, the cities arose here relatively late. For example, Tórshavn, the capital of the islands, had about one hundred settlers in 1900, although today the number has increased to 20,000. For a long time, the inhabitants of the islands were exclusively engaged in subsistence farming. With the development of the fishing industry since 1872, a period of transition from farming to fish farming began. This marked the beginning of the process of migration of residents to cities.
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