Follow the Linneaus trail
Ramlösa Park in Helsingborg, celebrates 300 years together with Linné in 2007. Linné visited Ramlösa, where much of the 18th century setting remains. Four sites in Skåne have been elected as Linné was here sites. A Swedish vicar’s son Carl Linnaeus (ennobled to von Linné) had gone on a national economic assignment in 1749; sent out by the Swedish parliament. The goal was to map the resources of the province and suggest changes. Now a tourism project out of the ordinary is prepared, guided by Linnaeus.
The official elected Linné was here locations beside Ramlösa in Helsingborg are Falsterbo, and Vrams Gunnarstorp, northwest where the enormous
box hedges are described by Linné as far back as 1749 and
Balsberget located northeast, in the wetland, near Kristianstad. The experience aims to be a stimulating link between our time and the world of Linnaeus, his personality and his unquenchable curiosity about the natural world. Tourists and travellers of today will be able to compare his description with the countryside as they find it today. The project is being carried out in collaboration with tourist organisations, county administrations, municipalities and museums throughout Sweden.
Link to Linné´s travel route marked in the map of Skåne at www.oresundstid.dk
Link to timeline of 18th century at www.oresundstid.dk
Link to The Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket) and map of Linneaus travel route
Link to IK Foundation Company. with absorbing stories and articles that are linked to other organisations that, in one way or another, are connected to Linnaeus.
Société Linnéenne de Normadie
Botanical garden in Uppsala
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