News about our city and cultural tour offers
In this section we publish current news and latest information about our offers for tour operators, groups and clubs as well as about our incoming services. Furthermore we would like to let you know more about the team working on our city and cultural tours. We wish you an enjoyable read of our news.
Completion of the Renaissance Wing at the Royal Palace Dresden
Since the 15th century The Royal Palace of Dresden is a symbol of the power of Saxon rulers. It is also the origin of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden Art Collections). The Palace was heavily destroyed during the Second World War and is being rebuilt since 1985. With this stage of construction another part of the Palace will be finished and opened. From spring 2017 two new permanent exhibitions will be shown in the Renaissance Wing of the Palace. The most precious inventories of the armoury will be presented, adapted to the original building stock and combined with modern exhibition architecture.
The team of City and Cultural Tours for Groups spent last weekend in Berlin for further training
The team of City and Cultural Tours for groups spent last weekend in Berlin for further training. The programme included visits to various museums as well as to hotels. The Saturday was marked by the former royal residence of the kings of Prussia, Potsdam. On Sunday the team visited several museums at Berlin´s Museumsinsel.
The Gewandhaus Leipzig starts into new concert season
At the beginning of September, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, one of the most well-respected concert halls in the world, started into the new concert season offering a multifaceted programme. The Great Concert traditionally is the beginning of the new season. This year the focus was on the work of the master Ludwig van Beethoven under the musical direction of Herbert Blomstedt. Beside the concert in the Great Hall of the Gewandhaus, other concerts took place all over Leipzig for example in the famous courts Barthels Hof and Specks Hof. Music enthusiasts had the chance to listen to pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra to obtain new concert hall
Dresden’s cultural palace (Kulturpalast) was designed by Wolfgang Hänsch in Bauhaus modernism architecture and is the city’s largest multipurpose hall. One can receive an impression of Dresden’s history as a tiny fisherman’s village up to its development to today’s big city when taking a closer look at the bronze main entrance doors, which were designed by Gerd Jaeger. The mural parallel to Castle Street bears the title “The red flags path” and has been cultural monument since 2001. It was created based on Gerhard Bondzin’s designs.
AugustusTours on board of MS Elbe Princesse
For some years now, AugustusTours organises fitting programmes of shore excursions for river cruises in Germany. Especially tour operators from Great Britain like to place the organisation of the ground handling for their river cruises in our hands. The Elbe River, the Rhine and the Danube are very popular destinations for guests to explore Germany and its fascinating cities and landscapes. Our specialty is of course the Elbe River being so to speak at our front door. From Prague to Berlin a rich variety of both unique nature and beautiful cities awaits which makes a river cruise very attractive in many ways.
AugustusTours invited at the Old Masters Picture Gallery
On the evening of 24/02/2016 AugustusTours went to another interesting and unforgettable continuing education for our art loving groups and visitors and joined a special guided tour to the wing of the Old Master Picture Gallery. The Dresden State Art Collections invited several service providers of the city to have a first glance at the redeveloped wing, which lasted three years, just before the official opening on 26/02/2016.