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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Uppsala. * 207,000.
n Kungsgatan 59, 018-727 48 00.
( Vaksala market (Sat).
_ Walpurgis Night celebrations
(30 Apr), Culture Night (mid-Sep).
∑ destinationuppsala.se
Burial mounds next to Gamla Uppsala church Transport
k 25 km (16 miles) south of the
museum, the governor’s where the Linneanum, housing centre. £ @ Kungsgatan.
residence and the House of the orangery, opened in 1807.
Peace, a museum that explores
world conflicts and Sweden’s T Gamla Uppsala the seat of the diocese moved
long history of neutrality. Route 290 or E4, 5 km north of the to Uppsala and the cathedral
centre. Disagården: Tel 018-16 91 80. became a parish church of which
O Botaniska Trädgården Gamla Uppsala Museum: Tel 018-23 only small parts remain. Nearby
Villavägen 8. Tel 018-471 28 38. 93 12. Open mid-May–Aug: daily. is Disagården, an open-air
Open daily. Closed public holidays. 8 - Sun. museum about the life of local
& greenhouse. Gamla Uppsala and its museum farmers in the 19th century.
The botanical gardens have had are like a time capsule. Royal
an educational function since burial mounds rise up from the E Linné’s Hammarby
the end of the 18th century. plain as they have done for 13 km (8 miles) southeast of Uppsala.
They hold more than 130,000 1,500 years. This was a centre for Tel 018-471 28 38. Open May–Sep:
plants, many exotic, in a beautiful worshipping the Norse gods Gardens: daily. Museum: Jun–Aug:
setting that includes several long into the 11th century, with Tue–Sun; May & Sep: Sat & Sun.
greenhouses, one of which is a temple which, according to Closed Whitsun, Midsummer’s Eve.
tropical. The first garden was Adam of Bremen’s description & -
established on the banks of the from 1070, was clad entirely in Linné bought Hammarby farm
Fyrisån river by Olof Rudbeck in gold and contained images of in 1758, because he thought
1655. In 1741, Carl von Linné took Odin, Thor and Frey. Every nine the air in Uppsala was bad for
it over and made it one of the years, a bloody festival was his health. The estate was his
leading gardens of its time. celebrated with men, stallions rural retreat, where he was able
Lovingly restored, it is now and dogs sacrificed around the to cultivate plants that could
known as the Linné garden. After temple. In the early 12th not tolerate the moist soil in the
a donation from Gustav III in the century, the heathen temple botanical gardens. The farm is
late 18th century, teaching was gave way to a Christian church, now owned by the state and
switched to the castle garden, then a cathedral. But in 1273, run by Uppsala University.

Uppsala City Centre Gamla Uppsala
1 Domkyrkan
2 Gustavianum S:T OLOFSGATAN KUNGSGATAN
3 Universitetshuset STORGATAN
S:T PERSG.
4 Carolina Rediviva SVARTBACKSGATAN VAKSALAGATAN Stadshuset
5 Uppsala Slott/Konstmuseet S:T OLOFSGATAN
6 Botaniska Trädgården STORA Train
Station
SMEDSGRÄND
Gustavianum FYRISTORG TORGET DRAGARBRUNNSGATAN Bus
Universitetshuset Domkyrkan OSTRA AGATAN KUN Station
DROTTNINGGATAN VASTRA AGATAN Fyrisån VRETGRÄND GSGATAN
BÄVERNSGRÄND
ÖVRE
KUNGSÄNGSGATAN
SLOTTSGATAN
Linné’s
Hammarby
KYRKOGÅRDSGATAN
TRÄDGÅRD GATAN
Carolina MUNKGATAN
NEDRE SLOTTSGATAN
Rediviva
THUNBERGSVÄGEN DAG HAMM ARSKJÖLDS VAG Uppsala Slott/
Botaniska Konstmuseet
SJUKHUSVÄGEN
Trädgården
0 metres 300
NORBYVÄGEN 0 yards 300
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