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Uppåkra

Uppåkra is a village and parish in Staffanstorp Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden, located five kilometres south of Lund.

Uppåkra
Uppåkra · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Uppåkra is a village and parish in Staffanstorp Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden, located five kilometres south of Lund.

The village is known for its Iron Age archaeological site, which has been actively excavated since 1996.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Uppåkra

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lund Observatory

    Lund Observatory was the official English name for the astronomy department at Lund University, and is currently used as a network of researchers within astronomy and space related research areas, administered by the Department of Physics. Between 1867-2001 "Lund Observatory" was also the name of the Observatory building, which is now referred to as the "Lund Old Observatory".

    3.8 km · observatory in Lund, Sweden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stadsparken

    Stadsparken is a park located in central Lund. It is located within the historic Lund city area in Lund municipality in Skåne.

    3.7 km · urban park in Lund, Sweden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Spirit

    The Church of the Holy Spirit is a church located in the district of Klostergården, on the south-west side of Lund in Skåne, Sweden. It was opened in 1968 as a district church in the Diocese of Lund, but became the main church of the parish of Helgeand after it was formed in 1991.

    3.1 km · Church of Sweden church building in Lund, Sweden · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wermlands Nation

    Wermlands Nation is one of thirteen student nations of Lund University in Sweden. It has 500 members and is thus the smallest student nation in Lund - ranking behind Smålands Nation.

    4 km · student nation of Lund University · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Småland Nation, Lund

    Smålands nation is one of thirteen student nations of Lund University in Sweden. It is the twelfth-largest nation in Lund, with 715 members, ranking behind Kristianstads, but ahead of Wermlands Nation.

    3.9 km · Student nation at Lund University · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Uppåkra

Airports
Malmö Sturup (MMX), 20 km · Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH), 33 km · Aarhus (AAR), 174 km
Stations
Klostergården railway station, 3.1 km
  • Göteborg → Uppåkra
    239 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · kr255–340
  • Linköping → Uppåkra
    123 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · kr150–200
  • Visby → Uppåkra
    382 km · quickest by air, 7h 53m · kr1,560–2,400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Uppåkra

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Uppåkra. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMalmö Airport is mostly served by low-fare, charter and regional carriers.
  • Get inInternational flights are covered by many charter and scheduled flights from vacation destinations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
  • Get inFinnlines runs a ferry line between Travemünde in northern Germany and Malmö.
  • Get inThe ferry line is mostly directed towards trucks and car drivers, but it is possible to book tickets for pedestrians.
  • Get inAs an alternative, Trelleborg and Ystad offer ferry connections from other ports in Germany and Poland.

From Wikivoyage: Malmö, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    52 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    592 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    634 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    680 km
  5. 05
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    714 km

If you know how people move in Uppåkra – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Uppåkra

Uppåkra is 13 km from Malmö, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Staffanstorpurban area in Staffanstorp Municipality, Sweden3.8 km
  • Åkarpurban area in Burlöv Municipality, Sweden4 km
  • Hjärupurban area in Staffanstorp Municipality, Sweden1.9 km
  • Bergströmshusenurban area in Staffanstorp Municipality, Sweden1.3 km