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To theE. of the botanic garden rises the large and unpleasing
Slott (Pl. C. 4), a castle founded by Gustavus Yasa in 1548, but
never completed. In front of it is a bust of the founder by
Fogelberg. In this castle Eric XIY. caused the ill-fated Sture
to be murdered, and it was here that Queen Christina abdicated.
The N. tower and the Styrbiskop (built to ’overawe the bishops’)
are now in ruins. Fine * View from the castle, to the N. of Avhich
Gamla Upsala is visible.—A little farther on are the new Hospital
(Sjukhus) and the grounds of the Strömparterre. Farther to the S.
is the Polacksbacke, another good point of view (comp. PI. C, D, 5).
The principal university-buildings not yet mentioned are the
Uustavianum ( ‘Gustavianska Akademien’; Pl. 7; B, 3), with
zoological and other collections; the Observatory (‘Astronomiska
Observatoriet’ ; Pl. A, 3); the Regndleanum (PI. 23 ; C, 4),
TrädgårdsGatan 18; the Anatomy Building^ Anatomi Bygnaden’; IT. 1; I), 4),
Vestra Agatan 26; the Collection of Coins and Northern
Antiquities (‘Myntsamling och Aordiska Fomsaker’), St. Lars-Gatan 2.
The Cemetery (PI. A, 4) situated to the Vf. of the library,
deserves a visit. Among the numerous monuments of distinguished
men is that of Geijer (d. 1847), the historian and poet. The
monuments of the different ‘nations’ of the students should also he
noticed (see p. 361).
The most interesting spot near Upsala is ^Gamla Upsala, about 3’/2
Engl. SI. to the X.E., the first station on the railway to Gefle (see below).
On foot or by carriage (see p. 358) we may reach it by following the
high-road to Gefle for 1/2 SI. and then taking the road to the right,
running parallel with the railway. Gamla Upsala was the seat of the early
pagan kings of Sweden. The site of its famous temple is said to be marked
by the church of the present village. Adjacent are the three Kungshögarne,
or Tuinuli of the Kings, named after the Scandinavian gods, Thor, Odin,
and Fre.yr, each about 58 ft. high and 225 ft. in diameter. The hill farthest
to the E. (the Odin Sill) was opened in 1846-47, and beneath the
superincumbent sand, embedded in layers of gravel, was found an urn, 7 in.
high and 9 in. in diameter, containing calcined bones and the objects now
preserved in the Sluseum at Stockholm (ground-floor, Room III., p. 335).
The urn was left where it was found. The Frevr hill was opened in 1874
and found to he constructed on a similar plan. Xear these hills is (he
Tingshög (‘assize hill’), 32 ft. in height, from which the kings down to
Gustavus Vasa used to address their subjects.
From Upsala to Xorrtelje, SI Kil. (50l/2 Engl. 31.), railway in 4 hrs.
(fares 5 kr. 7U, 3 kr. 25 (i.). — The intermediate stations are of no
importance. 21 Kil. Lenna; 41 Kil. Knutby. At (50 Kil.) Rimho is the
junction with the direct line to Stockholm, now in progress. —
Norr-telje (Studs-Hotel). a busy little trading town with 2300 inhab. lies in a
pretty district at the \V. end of the hay of Telgevit, on the Baltic. In
summer it is a favourite watering-place.
48. From Upsala to Gefle.
114 Kil. (71 Engl. 31.). Railway in 4-5 hrs. (fares 6 kr. 85, 4 kr. GO 0.).
The scenery is uninteresting, hut a visit may he paid on the
way to the waterfall of the Dal-Elf at Elfkarleby and to the
iron-mines of Dtinnemnra. —The train at first follows the course of the
Fyrisu.
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