The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Cathedral, castle and Linnaeus
Uppsala
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Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral is worth time for the scale of Sweden’s principal historic cathedral, its long association with church leadership and monarchy, and the way medieval fabric and later restoration can be read in a single building. Key elements include the twin-spired Gothic exterior, royal and ecclesiastical memorials, and chapels and medieval architectural fabric. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 100 minutes suggested
- Price
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- 2
Uppsala Castle
Uppsala Castle is worth time for the castle’s position above Uppsala and its connection with sixteenth-century royal power, offering a strong visual and historical counterpoint to the cathedral below. Key elements include the elevated castle setting above the city, surviving historic interiors and façades, and views towards the cathedral and university quarter. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
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- 3
Linnaeus Garden
Linnaeus Garden is worth time for a compact way to connect the history of botany with the physical organisation of an eighteenth-century teaching garden, making scientific classification visible through plants and layout. Key elements include historic planting beds arranged for study, Linnaean botanical interpretation, and the professor’s former working environment. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Gamla Uppsala landscape
Uppsala
- 1
Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala is worth time for the unusually visible relationship between monumental burial, settlement, religion and later national memory, with the open landscape making the scale and placement of the mounds easy to understand. Key elements include the great royal burial mounds, the old church and archaeological landscape, and museum interpretation of Iron Age society. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
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Sigtuna and Skokloster
Sigtuna
- 1
Sigtuna Old Town
Sigtuna Old Town is worth time for the survival of an unusually early Swedish town plan alongside medieval ruins, runic monuments and later wooden streetscapes, all within a compact lakeside centre. Key elements include Stora gatan and the small-scale town centre, medieval church ruins, and runestones and lakeside setting. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 140 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Skokloster Castle
Skokloster Castle is worth time for an exceptionally intact seventeenth-century aristocratic residence where collections, interiors and an unfinished ceremonial room reveal both the ambition and limits of Sweden’s great-power era. Key elements include Baroque state rooms and collections, the unfinished banqueting hall, and the lakeside four-winged castle plan. Together these features place the destination within the wider story of Uppland. Attention to layout, materials, landscape and surviving details helps explain how the place has developed, functioned or been understood over time. It has enough substance for a focused visit and also connects naturally with a broader regional itinerary.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check the current official source before travel.
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.