Travel Guide Sandur

A small and very sheltered harbor combining Viking excavations, old houses and modern dwellings. The largest town in the Faroes in the Middle Ages, occupied since the 4th century. Sandur owes its name to the presence of a sandy beach, rare in the Faroes. To see: the Koytu Folk museum (wooden house built in 1812), and the Sofus Olsen museum. A fisherman who became a great figure of the archipelago, engaged during the Second World War. At the head of a large fleet of boats, he became the largest financier in the country. At his death, he bequeathed part of his fortune and built this museum. An ideal place for kayaking on the third largest lake in the archipelago.