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Boat race

Boy in national costume

Ólavsøka 2004People gathering

Ólavsøka 2004People gathering

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004Men on horseback with the Faroese flag

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004Men on horseback with the Faroese flag

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004People walking up and down the main street

Ólavsøka 2004People gathering out side
the Parliment building

Ólavsøka 2004People walking up and down the main street

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2004People walking up and down the main street

Ólavsøka 2004

KvívíkingurHappy winner of the boat race

Ólavsøka 2004

Ólavsøka 2003Torshavn hosts an annual civic-festival called Olavsoka. It is held in late July.
The capital is turned into a party and people flock in to Torshavn from all of the islands.

Boy in national costume

Girls in national costume

Ólavsøka 2005The Norwegian king Olav the holy fell on the 29th of July, 1030 in the battle at Stiklestad, and every year on that day Norway's patron saint was commemorated.
It is now a thousand years since the chief Sigmund Brestisson introduced Christianity in a proclamation on the rocky headland at the end of Tinganes in Tórshavn.

Dog in national costume

Ólavsøka 2005

Ólavsøka 2005

Ólavsøka 2005Men on horseback with the Faroese flag.

Ólavsøka 2005People gathering out side
the Parliment building.

Ólavsøka 2005People gathering out side
the Parliment building.

Ólavsøka 2005

Ólavsøka 2005

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