Botanical Gardens, Uppsala is really a very wonderful and nice place to visit during your tour to Uppsala. Uppsala is a University City located in Uppland province in Svealand. Svealand is situated in the south central region in Sweden. You will enjoy very much visiting this place. Botanical Gardens, Uppsala is one of the beautiful tourist attractions in Uppsala you can take a look at.
Botanical Gardens, Uppsala is actually a very large garden located at the Uppsala University. It is one of the ancient botanical gardens situated in Sweden. Botanical Gardens, Uppsala was established in the year 1655 by a Professor of medicine, Olof Rudbeck. During the year 1655, the Botanical Garden was positioned in the middle of Uppsala and near the River Fyrisan.
Since it is located in a University area, this place is always crowded by a number of young people. Earlier Botanical Gardens in Uppsala was utilized for the purpose of teaching botany and pharmacy to the students. By the end of the 17th century, there was large number of species that were grown in the garden. The species were more than 1,800 in number. Many of the species were grown for the first time in Sweden.
Botanical Gardens, Uppsala was also known as the “Olof Rudbeck’s Botanical Garden”. In the year 1702, this garden was badly ruined by a fire. It was only in 1741, when Carl Linnaeus, a professor of medicine at Uppsala University, revived the garden. He was successful in collecting 1000 of foreign plants. All these plants were grown in the Botanical Gardens, Uppsala. Presently this garden is known as the Linnaeus’ Garden.
Botanical Gardens in Uppsala also house a lot of other things. You will surely like visiting these places within the garden:-
- The Park
- Tropical Greenhouse
- Orangery
- Information centre Linnaeus 2007
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