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Vagur travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Vagur or Vágur meaning Bay is a town on the Faroe Islands of Suðuroy, it is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and dates from the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the nearby town of Nes is now a suburb of Vagur. Vagur has a sports hall next to the football grounds on Eiðinum, near Vágseiði, a swimmingpool by the school and a clinic which offers the services of doctors, nurses and dentists. There is also a hotel, Post Office, one bank and various shops. There is a memorial near the main road through Vagur commemorating the efforts of Nólsoyar Páll, the nineteenth-century Faroese hero, poet and genius. He believed that the monopoly trading scheme was seriously restricting the economic potential of the Faroe Islands and set about organising opposition and resistance to it. Although he failed to abolish the monopolies, his actions were the start of a process which eventually led to the abolition of monopoly trading in 1856. The memorial was built in memory of the fact, that the first Faroese ship was built on this spot, which is called Fløtan Fríða in Vagur in 1804, the fist ship which was built since Middle Ages ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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