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City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history
City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history
City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history

City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history

By Sweden History Tours
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Price is £25 per adult
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Overview

Experience the different history of the Nordic region's oldest university; hear about the founding to be better than the Danes, brutal student housing in the 17th century, the university as a city in the city with its own judges, prisons, police, craftsmen, etc. and the student in the 18th century who signed a contract with the devil. 2 people are required for the tour to run.

We walk around central Uppsala with a focus on the buildings, professors and student housing that are preserved. Hear about Celsius, Rudbeck and Linnaeus and students.
Uppsala University, Anno Domini 1477, is the oldest in the Nordic countries and has many different sad, dreary and exciting stories attached to it. The guide is led by an authorised Uppsala guide.

You will hear everything from the brutal 17th century student inaugurations, the professor who was rumoured to sell essays to the students and how the feud between Denmark and Sweden gave Uppsala its university. You will hear how it came about that the university had to buy back a gift from the king by one of the university's builders

Activity location

  • Riddartorget
    • Riddartorget
    • Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Riddartorget
    • Riddartorget
    • Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

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City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history
  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h1h
  • Swedish
Language options: Swedish
Starting time: 18:00
Price details
£24.91 x 2 Adults£49.82

Total
Price is £49.82
Until Wed, 24 Apr

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  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Riddartorget
  • 10m
Hear about the founding of the university by Jacob Ulvson and the medieval teaching before and after the university was founded until Gustav Vasa's rise in the 1520s.
Dekanhuset
  • 10m
Discover briefly about the state racial biology institute in Uppsala.
Museum Gustavianum
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
Experience the different history of the Nordic region's oldest university; hear about the founding to be better than the Danes, brutal student housing in the 17th century, the university as a city in the city with its own judges, prisons, police, craftsmen, etc. and the student in the 18th century who signed a contract with the devil. Gustavianum is strictly for renovation but takes the exterior of the anatomical theatre etc., the building itself has an exciting history that awaits ..
Uppsala University Main Building
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
We visit the University House, the largest party building and hear about the park where Uppsala farm was located where essential teaching in German, French, dance, riding and drawing occurred for the children of the nobles who enrolled at 8-9 years of age at the university. We enter the University House if it is open. Hear about the architect so it went bankrupt and the scandal house.
Carolina Rediviva University Library
  • 10m
We end the tour outside the University Library Carolina Revidiva. Hear about the silver spade that the university had to redeem from the architect's heirs, about the books that crowded the banquet hall and the letter to the devil a student wrote in the 18th century.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESRiddartorget
    • Riddartorget
    • Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLERiddartorget
    • Riddartorget
    • Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

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