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Saltangará

Saltangará is a village in the Faroe Islands, on the island of Eysturoy.

Saltangará
Saltangará · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Saltangará is a village in the Faroe Islands, on the island of Eysturoy.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saltangará

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Svangaskarð

    Svangaskarð, also referred to as Tofta Leikvøllur, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toftir, Faroe Islands with two football fields and a sports arena for athletics around the lower field. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    2.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lake Toftir

    Lake Toftir is a lake on the island of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands. Lake Toftir is located between the villages of Toftir and Rituvík.

    2.4 km · lake on the island of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Saltangará

Airports
Vágar (FAE), 30 km
  • Aberdeen → Saltangará
    611 km · quickest by air, 8h 16m · £210–320
  • Ålesund → Saltangará
    686 km · quickest by air, 9h 7m · kr2,530–3,920
  • Bergen → Saltangará
    671 km · quickest by air, 6h 47m · kr2,350–3,640
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saltangará

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saltangará. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can take the car with you on the ferry mentioned above.

From Wikivoyage: Tórshavn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Faroe IslandsFO

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    24 km
  2. 02
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    344 km
  3. 03
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    533 km
  5. 05
    South Uist and the southern Outer HebridesGB

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    540 km

If you know how people move in Saltangará – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Saltangará

  • Runavíksettlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands900 m
  • Toftirsettlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands2.9 km
  • Strendurhuman settlement2.5 km
  • Sjóvar Municipalitymunicipality of the Faroe Islands2.6 km
  • Glyvrarsettlement on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands1.6 km
  • Nesvillage in Eysturoy, Faroe Islands4 km