Dresden-und-sachsen.de Website Review

for the Saxon he State Capital of Dresden and the extensive surrounding area (East Saxony): Upper Elbe Valley, Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Upper Lusatia and Eastern Ore Mountains The Free State of Saxony is one of the richest and most diverse cultural landscapes in Europe. This land of castles and palaces in the southeast of Germany with its approximately 1000 castles, mansions and parks is characterized by an extremely valuable Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Clas*icist architecture as well as by world-renowned art collections and not least by a very charming, romantic Landscape out. The state capital Dresden, the Baroque pearl on Elbestrom, presents itself as an art and cultural city of world renown. With its unique, magnificent Renaissance and Baroque buildings, it is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The Residenzschloss, the Georgenbau, the Stallhof, the Johanneum and the Taschenbergpalais together form the largest and most beautiful Renaissance palace complex in Europe. The neo-renaissance Semperoper is one of the world's greatest opera houses. With such buildings as the Zwinger, the Catholic Hofkirche and the Frauenkirche, Dresden has the most important Late Baroque buildings in Europe north of the Alps. The Chilli-style Pillnitz Castle is also unique in Europe. The surroundings of Dresden and the whole of eastern Saxony are characterized by a great diversity of landscape and culture and beauty. The romantic landscape of the Elbsandsteingebirge is flowed through by the Elbestrom, on which the ships of the largest and oldest paddle steamers in the world make their way. The Zittau Mountains are also a romantic sandstone rock country. North of Dresden stands in the midst of a beautiful pond and forest landscape, the large magnificent baroque castle Moritzburg. Among the many attractions of Dresden's surrounding countryside are the picturesque Radebeul vineyards, the cathedral city of Meissen, where the