In 1970 she took a job as a therapist in Tórshavn hospital where she worked with mentally handicapped people, teaching them embroidery and other art forms.
The original Faroese title is Atlantic Rhapsody - 52 myndir úr Tórshavn, where the second part means "52 pictures from Tórshavn".
Other reminders include the naval guns at the fortress of Skansin in Tórshavn, which served as the British military headquarters.
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An official announcement was later made announcing the occupation and ordering a nighttime blackout in Tórshavn and neighbouring Argir, the censorship of post and telegraphy and the prohibition of the use of motor vehicles during the night without a permit.
He played for NSÍ in 2005 and 2006, in 2007 he played for HB Tórshavn the first half and for NSÍ Runavík in the second half of the season.
In August 2008 he rejoined HB Tórshavn, he only managed 20 minutes of playing time for HB before the 2008 season ended, because of injuries which kept him sidelined.
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Christian Restorff Mouritsen (born 3 December 1988) is a Faroese footballer who currently plays for HB Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands.
Dimmalætting (Faroese for "Dawn") is the oldest and largest newspaper of the Faroe Islands and is based in Tórshavn.
Fróði Benjaminsen (born 14 December 1977) is a Faroese international footballer who plays professionally as a defender for HB Tórshavn.
Hans Jacob Højgaard (11 September 1904, Toftir, Faroe Islands – 10 June 1992 Tórshavn Faroe Islands), teacher and choir leader, he was one of the most productive composers in the Faroe Islands in the 20th century.
His work is to be found not only in art galleries but in many towns in the Faroes, especially in the Faroese capital Tórshavn.
Vatnsdal played for the Faroe Islands U17 team on 5 August 2006 in Tórshavn against Norway.
Hendrik Rubeksen (born 1 November 1983) is an Faroese international footballer who plays club football for HB Tórshavn, as a defender.
The family name Hoydal takes name after a neighborhood in Tórshavn named Hoydalar, it is in a valley near Hoyvík.
Janus Kamban (10 September 1913 in Tórshavn - 2 May 2009) was a Faroese sculptor and last living representative from the "first generation" of professional artists in the Faroe Islands.
He played in the Faroe Islands for Tórshavn sides HB Tórshavn and B36 Tórshavn, before moving abroad to play in the Norwegian, English and Icelandic leagues.
Apart from Listaskálin in Tórshavn, where a great permanent exhibition is, paintings can be seen in the Faroese Parliament as well in many banks and savings banks all over the Faroes.
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S J Mikines participated in countless exhibitions since his debut in Tórshavn in 1927, where all his paintings were sold and his paintings can be seen many different places.
Símun Samuelsen (born 21 May 1985 in Vágur) is a Faroese football striker currently playing for HB Tórshavn after playing in Iceland for some years for Keflavik as a right or left winger but can also play as a second striker.
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On 20 July 2010 he scored a goal for HB Tórshavn in the UEFA Champions League match against FC Red Bull Salzburg, the match was played in Tórshavn.
Johan Steffan Danielsen (3 September 1922 in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands - 28 May 1976 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands) was a Faroese painter.
After a disappointing season at Viborg FF, he left Denmark and went back to the Faroe Islands at B36 Tórshavn.
Zacharias Heinesen (borne 1936 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese landscape painter.
Tórshavn | B36 Tórshavn | B36 Torshavn |
The stage was the distance between: Tjørnuvík – Saksun - Sundalagið – Kollafjørður – Oyggjarvegin – Tórshavn – Ringvegur – Gomlu rætt – Tórshavn – to the right at Áargeil – down Gundadalsvegnum – to the left at R.C. Effersøesgøtu – by vestara Ringvegi – to the left at Áargeil – Gundadals-vegur.
Petur Alberg (1885, Tórshavn – 1940), Faroese violinist, composer, and author
Janus Djurhuus (born 1881 in Tórshavn, died 1948) uses it as a symbol of Faroese independence in "Heimferð Nólsoyar Páls".
The club was founded 1 January 1968 as Nólsoyar Ítróttarfelag - often abbreviated to NÍF - representing the isle of Nólsoy, even though the team played its matches in Tórshavn.
Guðrið Hansdóttir grew up in Argir near Tórshavn, she is the daughter of Louisa and Hans Carl Hansen.
Hattarvik is reachable by a ferry 1-2 times a day from Hvannasund and also by a helicopter 3 times a week from Klaksvík and Tórshavn.
It has also been possible since autumn 2010 to travel to Tórshavn on the Faroe Islands and to Seyðisfjörður on Iceland with Smyril Line.
The memorial is made of stone, the stone work was made by Lars and Helmut Larsen from Tórshavn, it was raised in 1963 in memory of people from Hvalba who lost their life at sea or by other accidents, i.e. by accidents in the coal mines or by falling down from the island Lítla Dímun or from one of the mountains which surround the village.
Jakob (properly Jákup) Jakobsen, (* 22 February 1864 in Tórshavn, Faroe; † 15 August 1918 in Copenhagen), was a Faroese linguist as well as a scholar of literature.
Since 1970 he has lived in a house on the coast (Yviri við Strond in Tórshavn) with a view to Nólsoy, built according to his specifications in the classical style, with black asphalt outside walls and grass roof.
While a law student in Copenhagen, he devised the flag in 1919 with two other Faroese students, Janus Øssursson from Tórshavn and Paul Dahl from Vágur.
Kirkja is one of two villages on the island of Fugloy that are connected both by the road built in the 1980s and by the ferry that connects both Kirkja and Hattarvík to Hvannasund on the larger island of Viðoy, and in the last two decades the island can also be reached by helicopter either from the national airport in Vágar, the national capital of Tórshavn or the regional capital Klaksvík.
Marianna Debes Dahl (24 November 1947) is a Faroese writer, født 1947 in Vestmanna, grew up in Tórshavn.
Some of them can be seen in the Ruth Smith Art Museum in Vágur and some in Listasavn Føroya in Tórshavn.
Ólavur Jakobsen, classical guitarist, born 1964 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
He currently lives in Hoyvík near Tórshavn and is active promoting Faroese music and touring as a soloist and chamber musician.
After finishing the Faroese University-preparatory school (in Faroese called Studentaskúli, in Danish: Gymnasium) in Tórshavn, she moved to Denmark to study Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen.
Sólrún Michelsen (born Midjord in Tórshavn in 1948), grew up in Argir, is a Faroese writer and poet.
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In 1994 she published her debut book which she named Argjafrensar, people who come from Argir (now a part of Tórshavn) are often as a joke referred to as Argjafrensar, which means male cats from Argir.
Sornfelli is a mountain plateau on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands about 12 km from the capital Tórshavn (20 km by road).
Furthermore the small islands in the proximity of Tórshavn (Nólsoy, Hestur and Koltur) are now a part of the municipality of Tórshavn.
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Already now the proximate suburbs of Tórshavn house a third of the population of Tórshavn, and within the next couple of decades the population in the proximate suburbs (especially Argir in the south and Hoyvík in the north) will exceed the population of the original town of Tórshavn (all settlement within the 1866 boundaries of the municipality).