Uppsala countryside
The Uppsala countryside is the part of Uppsala municipality, Uppsala kommun, outside metropolitan Uppsala itself. Some 60,000 people live in Uppsala's suburbs and surrounding villages.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uppsala Cathedral and Linnaeus Garden.
Uppsala Cathedral
Church
Uppsala Cathedral is a cathedral located between the University Hall of Uppsala University and the Fyris river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden, the national church, in the Lutheran tradition, Uppsala Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, the primate of Sweden.
Linnaeus Garden
Garden
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Linnaean Garden or Linnaeus Garden is the oldest of the botanical gardens belonging to Uppsala University, Sweden, and nowadays one of two satellite gardens of the larger University of Uppsala Botanic Garden, the other being the Linnaeus family's former summer home Linnaeus's Hammarby.
Gustavianum
Museum
Photo: Jarvis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gustavianum is the oldest standing building at Uppsala University. It was built between 1622 and 1625, and was used as the main building of the university between 1778 and 1887. Since 1997, it has been used as the university's museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uppsala and Gamla Uppsala.
Uppsala
Uppsala is a university city in Sweden. While Uppsala sometimes stands in the shade of Stockholm it maintains a sophisticated identity of its own. Compared to the Swedish capital, Uppsala is less frantic, with more of a small-town atmosphere, influenced by the student culture and academic traditions of Uppsala University.
Gamla Uppsala
Suburb
Photo: OlofE, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gamla Uppsala is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre.
Flogsta
Suburb
Photo: Pythe1337N, CC BY 3.0.
Flogsta is a neighbourhood in the west part of the Swedish city of Uppsala. Most of its inhabitants are students attending Uppsala University or the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Uppsala countryside
- Location: Uppsala County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.8669° or 59° 52′ 1″ northLongitude
17.6331° or 17° 37′ 59″ eastOpen location code
9FFVVJ8M+Q6Wikidata ID
Q14237879
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