1. Uppsala Castle Museum

Wellcome to a guided tour of Uppsala Slottshistoriska and the Wasaborg.

Uppsala Castle Museum, is a museum that tells the story of Uppsala and the castle’s history and development and the Wasaborg tells us about the life at the castle in the 14th century.

Uppsala Castle houses infinite memories, items, and stories – traces of all the people who have ruled, served, laughed, cried, and lived their lives - or only a single night - within the castle walls.

These memories and fates are part of the history of the castle, the history of Uppsala, and the history of Sweden. Just like the castle itself, history is ever-changing. It is revised, reexamined, and rewritten when new perspectives challenge old truths.

The tour takes aprox two hours.

15 participants

2. Uppsala Cathedral

Welcome to a guided tour of the largest cathedral in the Nordic countries and the Treasury where you can see one of Europe´s finest collections of medieval church fabrics.

Uppsala Cathedral is a place where people have gathered since 1435 when it was consecrated, and in 1477 the archbishop Jakob Ulfsson founded the first university in Scandinavia here in Uppsala. The kings and queens of Sweden were crowned in Uppsala Cathedral until 1719. It took around twohundered years to build and was first a catholic chuch. As you step inside the cathedral, you open up a gateway to Sweden's history. Here you can find the relics of Saint Birgitta and Saint Erik and see the monument of king Gustaf Vasa.

The tour takes aprox two hours

30 participants

3. The tropical greenhouse at the Botanical garden

Guided tour at The Uppsala tropical greenhouse and your own free time in the botanical garden.

Here you can enjoy the grandiose Baroque Garden, visit the 200-year-old orangery with its grand halls or find inspiration for home growing among rockery plants, vegetables, summer flowers and plants in the systemic quarters. The Tropical Greenhouse is home to Uppsala's only rainforest! Here you find plants originating in warmer climates than that of Sweden. You can stroll among orchids, lianas, palms and carnivorous plants.

The guided tour is aprox 1 hour, and then you have free time to take a stroll in the garden or enjoy a fika at the café Victoria close to the tropical greenhouse.

 20 participants

4. Pilgrimage hike

This excursion will be a 6 km walk at a slow pace from the cathedral to the church in Old Uppsala. The path takes you from the buzzling city center to the calm fields of the countryside.

Walking the pilgrimage, regardles of belief or worldwiew, is about giving yourself and your thoughts time. Time to reflect about perspecives of life, spirituality and slowing down. Reclaiming slowness is central to this inner and outer journey.

This walk will take aprox two hours. We will take the local bus back to Uppsala city.

30 participants