News – City and Cultural Tours

The Gardens of the World in Berlin´s district Marzahn-Hellersdorf are worth a visit throughout the year during a group tour to Berlin. In 2017 this unique parkland presents itself under the banner “an OCEAN of colours”. From April the International Horticultural Exhibition invites visitors to an unforgettable event of the most beautiful garden designs and landscape architecture.

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 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.

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’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.