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Uppsala Gamla Kyrkogård

Uppsala Old Cemetery

Uppsala Gamla Kyrkogård
Photo: Vysotsky, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

The largest cemetery in Uppsala is a beautiful place for a walk. Notable burials include the national romantic poet and historian Erik Gustaf Geijer; the poet Gustaf Fröding; artists Olof Thunman and Bruno Liljefors; Nobel laureates Kai Siegbahn, Arne Tiselius, Svante Arrhenius and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dag Hammarskjöld, who died under mysterious circumstances during his tenure as secretary general of the UN.

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Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.