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Botanical Gardens
The excellent Botanical Gardens, below the castle hill, show off over 10,000 different species, and are well worth a wander. Attractions include a Tropical Greenhouse, currently undergoing restoration and due to reopen in 2007, as well as the 200-year-old Linnaeum Orangery.
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Carolina Rediviva
In the display hall of Carolina Rediviva, the old university library, is the surviving half of the Codex Argentus (AD 520), written in silver ink on purple vellum in Gothic.
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Domkyrkan
The Gothic Domkyrkan dominates the city, just as some of those buried here - including St Erik, Gustav Vasa and the scientist Carl von Linné - dominated their country.
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Friluftsmuseet Disagården
Friluftsmuseet Disagården is a 19th-century farming village consisting of 26 timber buildings. Disagården is the focal point for Uppsala's midsummer celebrations.
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Gamla Uppsala Church
According to breathless reports from the medieval chronicler, Adam of Bremen, a vast golden temple graced Gamla Uppsala in the 10th century. Outside, dog, horse and human sacrifices were strung up in a sacred grove. Thor, Odin and the other Viking gods were displaced when Christianity arrived in 1090, and from 1164, the archbishop of Uppsala had his seat in a cathedral on the site of the present Church.
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Gamla Uppsala Museum
Gamla Uppsala Museum contains finds from the cremation mounds, a poignant mix of charred and melted beads, bones and buckles. More intact pieces come from various boat graves in and around the site.
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Grave Mounds
If you enjoy fresh green countryside buttered thick with pagan history, don't miss Gamla Uppsala, 4km north of the modern city. It's one of Sweden's largest and most important burial sites, containing around 300 mounds from the 6th to the 12th centuries. The earliest and most impressive are the three great Grave Mounds, said to contain the legendary pre-Viking kings Aun, Egils and Adils…although that's unlikely, considering the body from the Östhögen (East Mound) is a woman.
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Linnaeum Orangery
Attractions at the Botanical Gardens include the 200-year-old Linnaeum Orangery.
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Linnémuseet
Botanists will enjoy Linnémuseet, which displays memorabilia linked to Carl von Linné's work in Uppsala.
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Linnéträdgården
Attached to Linnémuseet is the 18th-century Linnéträdgården, Sweden's oldest botanical garden, with more than 1300 species arranged according to Linné's 'sexual system' of classification.
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Museum Gustavianum
With its wonderfully eclectic halls, the Museum Gustavianum is the most intriguing of Uppsala's museums. It contains a reconstructed Viking ship burial, Egyptian mummies and Carl von Linné's notebooks, but the most wowing exhibit is the 17th-century Augsburg Art Cabinet, containing over a thousand ingenious trinkets, and the vertiginous anatomical theatre where executed criminals were dissected.
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Treasury
Gustav's funerary sword, silver crown and shiny golden buttons have been moved to the Treasury in the cathedral's north tower, where there's also a great display of medieval textiles. Particularly fine are the clothes worn by the three noblemen who were murdered in the castle: they're the only example of 16th-century Swedish high fashion still in existence.
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Trefaldighets Kyrka
Trefaldighets Kyrka isn't as outwardly impressive as the nearby Domkyrkan, but it has interesting brick vaulting and some 15th-century painted ceilings.
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Upplandsmuseet
Upplandsmuseet, in an 18th-century watermill, houses county collections on folk art, music, and the history of Uppsala from the Middle Ages onwards.
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Uppsala Konstmuseum
The southern wing of Uppsala Slott houses the Uppsala Konstmuseum, with five centuries-worth of permanent artworks and some interesting temporary exhibitions.
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Uppsala Slott
Pink and ponderous, Uppsala Slott was built by Gustav Vasa in the 1550s. It contains the state hall where kings were enthroned, and where Queen Kristina abdicated. It was also the scene of a brutal murder in 1567, when crazy King Erik XIV and his guards killed Nils Sture and his two sons, Erik and Svante, after accusing them of high treason. The castle burnt down in 1702, but was rebuilt and took on its present form in 1757.
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Vasaborgen
In the ruins of the death-stained dungeons is a waxworks museum, Vasaborgen, where Renaissance scenes and intrigues are brought to life.
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