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Sorbia, Craft and Traditions

Cultural tours to Görlitz:

"Sorbia, Craft and Traditions: The Fascination of Lusatia"

-> Why Görlitz

-> Highlights

-> Travel ideas and excursions

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Görlitz:

- the most easterly town in Germany and home to over 4,000 architectural monuments
- Germany’s largest continuous listed area
- one of Central Europe’s best-preserved old towns, with over 3,000 listed buildings
- Poland (for instance the town of Wrocław) awaits on the other side of the Neiße river
- charming old quarters, rolling hills, expansive fields and picturesque little villages
- homeland of the Sorbs (a Slav minority) and a keeper of their traditions, for example horseback processions at Easter
- the Landeskrone: Görlitz residents’ home mountain – ideal for a walk with outstanding views over the Jizera and Krkonoše mountain ranges

Highlights in Görlitz:

Travel excursions and ideas: 

Historic sites: European City of Görlitz/Zgorzelec (seperated after the II. World War) incl. the Upper Lusatian Hall of Fame

Railway culture: Zittau narrow-gauge railway, Muskau Forest Railway, Excursions on the East Saxon Railway, Görlitz miniature park railway

Christmas: Silesian Christmas Market Görlitz, Herrnhut Star-Manufactury, Gingerbread Factory in Pulsnitz 

Traditions: Silesian Museum, Ehrlichthof Rietzschen (rough-cut wooden houses), traditional pottery, clothmakers, Landskron Brauerei Görlitz (brewery), Wilthener Weinbrennerei (destillery), Radeberger Exportbierbrauerei (brewery)

Sacred buildings: the via sacra (a holy road in the Germany – Poland – Czech Republic border region), Holy Sepulchre, Stations of the Cross, St. Peter and Paul's Church, Nikolai Church, Cunewalde Village Church (the largest evangelical village church in Germany), St. Marienthal convent in Ostritz, St. Marienstern convent in Panschwitz-Kuckau

Excursions from Görlitz: Large Zittau Lenten Veil and a ride with the Zittau narrow-gauge railway, Zittau Mountains with castle and Monastery of Oybin, Spreewald Forest with a river cruise by punt and Lehde Museum of Regional Culture, the Upper Lusatian half-timbered Houses (Cunewalde, Rietzschen, Waltersdorf), Upper Lusatian heath and pond landscape incl. the Fürst-Pückler Park in Bad Muskau

Arriving:

	Dresden Airport, approx. 62 miles to Görlitz (direct connection via the A 4)
	via the A 4 (Frankfurt/M.-Görlitz)
	long-distance trains to Dresden, then change to regional services to Görlitz.

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