Saksun
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Saksun is a village near the northwest coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, in Sunda Municipality.
Geography
Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains.
The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked it with sand. The old harbour become an inaccessible seawater lagoon, only accessible by small boats on high tide.
Facilities
The village has a heritage farm called Dúvugarðar www.duvugardar.fo and a church. The church was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth-century farm house called Dúvugarður. The house belongs to the Dúvugarður farm, still an active sheep farm with approximately 710 ewes.
Gallery
File:Saksun, Faroe Islands.jpg
File:Saksun Kirkja.Streymoy.fo.3.jpg|Church.
Image:Saksun.9.jpg|Interior of church
File:Saksun Kirkja 2007 a.jpg|Church
File:Saksun.Streymoy.fo.1.jpg|The old farm
Image:Faroe stamp 213 saksun.jpg|Saksun, Postverk Føroya
Image:Saksun, Faroe Islands (5).JPG|Down to the beach
File:Saksun.Streymoy.fo.2.jpg|Saksun
File:Saksun.Streymoy.1.jpg|West coast
Image:Off Saksun, Faroe Islands (3).JPG|Beach
See also
External links
{{Commons|Saksun}}
- [http://faroeislands.dk/pages/SaksunIndex.htm Faroeislands.dk: Saksun] Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands.
- [https://www.guidetofaroeislands.fo/travel-faroe-islands/drive/saksun Guide to Faroe Islands: Saksun]
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