Tinganes

The Tinganes Peninsula; the red buildings in the foreground are those of the state government.

Postage stamp from 1991, linocut based on an old photo

Tinganes (German translation: " Thing -Landzunge") is a peninsula in the port of Tórshavn .

Picturesque alley on Tinganes; what looks like an open-air museum here is the government district of the small island nation.

Tinganes takes its name from the Løgting , which goes back to the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands . Already around 900 the free men of the Faroe Islands gathered here for the thing. Løgting itself is now a little further north in the city center of Tórshavn , but the Faroese state government is still based here.

Tinganes is the oldest part of the city and is characterized by its narrow streets. The Tórshavner Cathedral is also located here .

One of the "Seven Faroese Wonders"

For Ólavsøka 2007, Faroese television Sjónvarp Føroya organized a nationwide competition on the “Seven Faroese Wonders”, in which viewers could make any suggestions about special buildings and other objects. A ranking of the eight winners (due to a tie in one case) has not been announced, but Tinganes is one of them. The others are the stalls of Kirkjubøur , the Magnus Cathedral , the Christianskirkjan in Klaksvík , the House of the North , the Norðoyatunnilin , the first Faroe flag in the Church of Fámjin and the seat of the Imperial Ombudsman in the Faroe Islands (the last two with a tie).

Commons : Tinganes - collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ portal.fo : Føroyingar hava valt síni undurverk ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (“The Faroese have chosen their marvels”), July 28, 2007

62.008944444444 -6.7704444444444Coordinates: 62 ° 0 ′ 32.2 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 13.6" W.