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The 800-year-old cultural capital

City tour to Dresden, from 145 € p.p.

Cultural tours to Dresden:

"A history of Saxon Industry"

"Experience contemporary history — more than 20 years of German Reunification"

"A journey through art on the occasion of the reopening of the Dresden Albertinum", from 165 € p.p.

"Porcelain - 300 Years of White Gold in Saxony"

"In the footsteps of great composers"

"Robert Schumann — a musical journey through Saxony"

"Saxony under Steam"

"A tour through charming parks and gardens"

"Christmas Markets in Saxony"

-> Why you should travel to Dresden

-> Highlights in Dresden

-> Travel ideas and excursions

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Dresden:

- historic centre with Zwinger Palace, Theatre Square, Royal Palace and Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche)
- architectural monuments, top-class museums and world-renowned cultural institutions
- Semper Opera House, Dresden Philharmonic
- precious treasures of the Saxon rulers in the Green Vault and the Treasure Chamber
- valuable paintings of Rubens, Rembrandt, Raffael, Dürer and Cranach in the Old Masters Picture Gallery
- oldest fleet of paddle steamers in the world
- more than 50% green: Elbe meadows right in the centre of Dresden

Highlights in Dresden:

Travel ideas and excursions: 

Music:  Tour of the Semper Opera House or the Richard Wagner Museum in Graupa, Carl Maria-von-Weber Museum near Pillnitz Palace, Concerts/opera at the Semper Opera House, Dresden Philharmonic, Church of Our Lady and Church of the Holy Cross

Art: Old Masters Picture Gallery (incl. Raphael’s Sistine Madonna), Albertinum (New Masters Gallery, Sculpture Collection), Porcelain Collection, Turkish Chamber, New & Historic Green Vaults, Pillnitz Museum of Decorative Arts

Castles, parks and gardens: Great Garden, Botanical Garden, gardens and parks of the Elbe Valley Castles, Pillnitz Castle and Park, Großsedlitz Baroque Garden

Architecture: Albertinum (with its spectacular “ark for the arts”), Armed Forces Museum of Military History (Daniel Libeskind, reopening in the beginning of 2012), Dresden main station (Sir Norman Foster), Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory

Industrial culture: Dresden Transport Museum, the largest and oldest fleet of paddle steamers in the world, Loschwitz funicular railway and cable car, German Watch Museum (Glashütte)

Railway culture: Dresden Park Railway in the Great Garden, Dresden-Altstadt Railway Museum, narrow-gauge railways (Kirnitzschtalbahn, Lößnitzgrundbahn, Weißeritztalbahn)

Christmas: Dresden’s “Striezelmarkt” Christmas Market (the oldest in Germany), historic Christmas markets in the Royal Mews and around the Church of Our Lady, tour of a baker of traditional Dresden “Stollen” Christmas cake, day excursions to the Ore Mountains (a region with strong, characteristic Christmas traditions)

Excursions from Dresden: Pillnitz Park and Palace incl. Elbe River Cruise with a historic paddle steamer; Meissen incl. its Meissen Porcelain Factory, Albrechtsburg Castle and Cathedral; Moritzburg incl. the Hunting Lodge and Little Pheasant Castle; Radebeul incl. its narrow-gauge railway and a winetasting at Wackerbarth Castle; Bautzen with St. Peter’s Cathedral and Görlitz with Sun Organ in the Church St. Peter and Paul; Prague, the “Golden City” with Hradcany Castle

Arriving:

	Dresden Airport, approx. 5 miles north of the city centre (for instance direct flight from London to Dresden with Lufthansa)
	via the A4 (Frankfurt am Main-Görlitz), A13 (Berlin-Dresden) and A17 (Prague-Dresden) motorways
	connections to all large German and European cities, arrival into Dresden main station (city centre) or Dresden-Neustadt station (connected to the city centre by local public transport)

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