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The anatomy hall is really worth seeing and is worth the visit alone.

Built from 1549 onwards as a fortress by Gustav Vasa, the castle was only rebuilt into a grand Renaissance palace after a fire in 1572. The old cannons on the Styrbiskop bastion still bear witness to its fortified early years.

Within the remaining ruins of Uppsala's original 16th-century castle, the Vasaborgen Museum offers insights into the history of Swedish rulers, recounting tales of kings and queens, princes and princesses. Guided tours led by costumed guides also reveal gruesome details of gruesome and violent sudden deaths. The museum is open from June 1st to September 1st.

What would old fortresses be – anywhere in the world – without these decorative old cannons?

The Gothic Uppsala Cathedral (Uppsala Domkyrka), consecrated in 1435, is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Uppsala, the parish church of the Uppsala Cathedral parish, and a national shrine of the Church of Sweden. It houses the relics of Sweden's national saint, Saint Erik, and a relic of Saint Bridget. The church is traditionally the coronation and burial church for Swedish kings and queens. Following a fire in the former cathedral (in Gamla Uppsala), the Pope granted permission in 1258 to move the bishopric to present-day Uppsala (then Östra Aros). The move to Domberget took place in 1273. Initially, the existing Saint Erik Chapel was used for services while French builders, under the direction of Etienne de Bonneuil, began constructing a new cathedral. The construction would continue for over a century and a half. The cathedral's towers are the tallest church towers in Scandinavia, reaching 118.7 meters. The most powerful of its five church bells, called Storan, weighs 7,360 kilograms, making it Sweden's largest church bell. The Church of Sweden estimates that around half a million people visit Uppsala Cathedral each year.

With its commanding position on Kasåsen hill high above Uppsala, the castle is visible from afar. Today it is the residence of the Governor of Uppsala County. Built as a fortification by Gustav Vasa starting in 1549, the castle was the site of the Sture Murders in 1567, the decision regarding Sweden's participation in the Thirty Years' War was made here, Queen Christina abdicated here in 1654, and many of Sweden's former kings and queens were born and lived here. As early as 1572, the castle had been remodeled by Johan III and expanded into a grand Renaissance palace. After the great city fire of 1702, parts of the main building, the so-called Cross Castle, were demolished. During its reconstruction in 1744, the entire castle acquired its present form in the French Neoclassical style, based on designs by Carl Hårleman. The room, the district council hall, which was specially set up for the district council meetings after the municipal reform of 1862, is today primarily used as a representative reception room.

Designed by architect Carl Fredrik Sundvall, the Carolina Rediviva building (Latin for "the resurrected Carolina") is the main building of the University Library. It was dedicated in 1841. The name refers to the older university building, the Academia Carolina, which was demolished in 1778. Since a restructuring of the University Library in 1999, the Carolina Rediviva library has been known as the "Carolina Library." In the exhibition room in the entrance hall, one can see fragments of what is perhaps the library's most famous manuscript, the Silver Bible (Codex argenteus). This unique handwritten Gospel book, written in the now-extinct Gothic script, dates from the early 6th century.

The Church of the Holy Trinity (Helga Trefaldigets kyrka), immediately south of the cathedral, is probably the third church building on this site. The oldest part is the sacristy, which was added to an older wooden church at the end of the 13th century. In the 14th century, the present three-aisled basilica was built, with the lower part constructed of grey stone and the upper part of brick. At the end of the Middle Ages, perhaps in the 15th century, the sturdy but short church tower was erected. On the south side of the tower is an elaborately restored medieval sundial, which displays Swedish Standard Time (winter time). The rectory next to the church is a converted medieval tithe barn.