Sights in Uppsala
Edit ThisThe royal mounds in Gamla Uppsala
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Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala)
Old Uppsala is today a suburb, a few kilometres north of the present city centre of Uppsala. During the Iron Age this was an important cultural and power centre. A king lived here and it was a meeting place for the Sveonians in their worship of the Norse gods. Three big royal burial mounds were built here around 1,500 years ago and the site was very important for the Norse religion.
A Christian cathedral was built probably on the site for the old worship during the 12 th century. Old Uppsala became the site of the new Arch bishop of Sweden in 1164. However, trade and other activities gradually moved to presentday Uppsala and the bishop moved to the new city in 1173 where a new cathedral was being built. The cathedral in Old Uppsala was reduced in size and is since then a parish church. Old Uppsala is easily reached by local bus from central Uppsala. The history of the site is displayed in a new museum on site, but the "Historical Centre" is focussed on historical displays rather than showing archeological findings.Contributors
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Memorials of Carl Linnaeus
Edit ThisCarl Linnaeus (knighted Carl von Linné in 1757) is probably the most famous professor of Uppsala University. He was born in 1707, son of a clergyman in Stenbrohult, prov. Småland. He is known as the inventor of the binomial nomenclature of plants and animals (i.e. the practice to give each closely related group of species a generic name (e.g. Anemone) and each species an epithet added to the generic name (e.g. Anemone nemorosa)).
He came to Uppsala as a student in 1727 and became a professor in 1741. There are two main sites commemorating him in Uppsala: the Linnaean more..| type: | Memorials |
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