It was a foggy morning....and lovely reflections at the marina.

There is an historic centre in Torshavn. It is on a rocky outcrop next to the marina. It was here that the parliament convened every summer from around 900A.D. to discuss issues of national importance. Today, the Faroese government is located here making it one of the oldest parliamentary meeting places in the world still in use.

The surrounding areas are home to black tarred wooden houses with white framed windows and grass roofs dating back to the 14th century. People still live in these houses. They have rather small doors.

Something Pete and I have noticed is that the windows in the old and the new houses nearly always have a statue, plant or candle on the windowsill.

We visited the National Art Gallery. We were glad that we had left the visit close to the end of our stay here in the Faroes as many of the paintings by the local artists were of the many places that we had visited.

This beautiful painting made realised all the yellow flowers that we have been seeing are not buttercups but marsh marigolds, the floral emblem of the Faroe Islands.

There were new and old paintings and sculptures...this one caught my eye...it was of baby sized handknitted jumpers (made with faroese wool). It's title was "Baby Boom". In the past knitting was on the school curriculum for all pupils, boys and girls. 

This is an amazing church that Pete and I spotted up on a hill....it is very tall...it is the Lutheran Church. Quite amazing inside.

This amazing stained glass behind the altar is in a Catholic Church that we took a look at. 

Although it was raining we still had time today to visit Kirkjubour, the most important historic site in the Faroe Islands. It is only ten minutes from Torshavn.

In this quiet sod-roofed village you can see the ruins of the Magnus Cathedral, an 11th centre farmhouse and St Olav's Church.

The present parish church in Kirkubour was built in 1111 and is the only church dating from the Middle Ages still in use in the islands. Today the church is a mixture of old and new, featuring an impressive altarpiece painting by a Faroese artist, Sam Mikines.

The gothic Saint Magnus Cathedral is reputed to have been one of the finest churches in the Nordic  countries when it was completed around the period 1330-40.