Glyvrar

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Old Bridges - Glyvragjógv at Glyvrar
Stamp FR 136 of the Faroe Islands
Issued: 13 October 1986
Artist: Ingálvur av Reyni
Engraver: Czeslaw Slania

• Population: 406
• Postal code (Zip): FO 625
• Location: 62°7′53″N, 6°43′27″W
• Municipality: Runavíkar

Glyvrar is a village located on Eysturoy, in the Faroe Islands.

It is one of several villages on the eastside of Skalafjørður (fjord) that have grown into a 10 kilometre long conurbation.

In Glyvrar there is a museum called ’Bygdasavnid Forni’. The church in Glyvrar is originally from 1927 but it was heavily restored in 1981.

From 1903 to 1928 there was a school for navigators in Glyvrar. Graduates from here would become masters of fishing-ships.

[edit] See also

• List of towns in the Faroe Islands

[edit] External links

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