Hågadalen-Nåsten

A 1,700-hectare (4,200-acre) natural reserve within walking distance from the city centre. One of the main sights in the reserve is (aka Kung Björns hög), a bronze age burial mound. It held the most gold of any Bronze Age tomb in Scandinavia and contained about a third of all the Bronze Age gold objects ever found in Sweden! Dating from around 1000 BC, it is twice as old as the more famous Old Uppsala burial mounds. Some 3 km south of the mound you can find remnants of the Bronze Age hillfort. The natural reserve is part of the proposed Linnaean UNESCO World Heritage.

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Getting there

3 km west of Uppsala; Bus 2 calls here

Website

lansstyrelsen.se (opens in a new tab)