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Tinganes

Government district of the Faroe Islands

by ekorren     Faroe Islands

N 62° 00.485' W 006° 46.185' (WGS84)

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Status: Available
 Time required: 0:30 h   Route: 1.0 km
 Hidden on: 23 April 2018
 Published on: 23 April 2018
 Last update: 23 April 2018
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC14733

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Tinganes - the Parliaments Jetty

Tinganes Panorama

 

Already around the year 900, shortly after beginning of settlement by Vikings, a parliament was founded on the Faroe Islands. This Althing (since around 1400 named Løgting), has been working ever since with only a little break in the 19th century. This makes it one of oldest existing parliaments in the world.

Meeting point was originally the jetty "Tinganes" in Tórshavn. Mid-19th century the parliament moved to a new building a few hundred metres north. Government and administration of the Faroe Islands continue to have their seat in the old wooden buildings on Tinganes.

Today's buildings mostly originate from the 17th and 18th century. A stroll through the narrow streets of the active government district is worth its time.

More information can be found on the net, e.g. at:

Wikipedia: Tinganes
Wikipedia: Løgting
Thingsites.com

 

Your task:

To log this virtual cache you need a password, which you can find out at the listing coordinates.

At the coordinates there's a transparent information table with a map of the district and on the left side an explanatory text in english language. The text includes three year numbers (exact years, no centuries). Append them in the same order as on the table to make one long number, that's your password.

Example: If the numbers were 1298, 900, and 1856 in this order, the password would be "12989001856".

Append photos from your visit to Tórshavn as you like, but please don't upload a photo of the table.


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Additional hint   Decrypt

Gnoyr ng gur jnyy, ynoryrq "GVATNARF"

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Log entries for Tinganes    Found 3x Not found 0x Note 0x

Found 25 March 2025, 11:37 Abahallo found the geocache

We happily walked Tinganes this morning - first visiting the two OC-virtual . That was fun, and for sure a good start! - Thanks for showing this place, and for taking care! Greetings from Denmark, Belgium, and Germany! Abahallo!:   Beate & Hermann, TFTC !!! 25. März 2025 10:37

Found 20 March 2022, 15:54 Uli001 found the geocache


Day 2 of our Trip to the Färöer Islands:

Hallo ekorren,

Heute erkundeten wir die Hauptstadt Torshaven.

For your Information:
bowaw, sorry_Le, Kupfergraf and uli001 are together on tour as 4 SAX (4 Saxsons)

Thanks to the owner ekorren for your Cache and showing us this place
Greetings from Germany/Sachsen/Leipzig
Uli

Found 13 June 2019, 00:50 mamaFAXO found the geocache

Vielen Dank für das nette Rätsel.
Es gibt übrigens Leute (wir zum beispiel😊), die ihren Sommerurlaub gezielt hier verbringen und genießen.