Walk down Dresden

Acquaintance with Dresden should begin with a sightseeing tour. So it's quicker to navigate, save time searching for museums, plunge into the atmosphere of Dresden, tune in to its wave, and maybe love it the way I love it.

The most popular excursion is this one – walking through the historical part of the old Dresden.

We'll walk about 1.5 kilometers. You will see and learn a lot of interesting things about the former castle, and then the palace-residence of the Saxon rulers; the terrace of Brühl and Count Heinrich von Brühl himself; about Zwinger and the Polish kings Augustus the Strong and Augustus the Third; and the court Catholic church in the Lutheran state; about the squares of the Old and New Markets; about the Baroque Church of the Virgin - Frauenkirch, its construction, destruction and miraculous revival. If time permits, I will tell you about the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, about the composers Richard Wagner and Karl Maria von Weber, about the great architect Gottfried Semper, about the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, who called Dresden “a treasure in a snuffbox”.

Have you been to Dresden? Or maybe thirty years ago, when the current dominant, the Frauenkirche, stood in black ruins, and grass grew around and sheep grazed peacefully. Then, in the days of the GDR, the coveted place and tourists who came from the hungry Soviet Union, and the Dresden residents themselves, was the military trade, located on the territory of the Soviet military unit. There is an opinion that there is nothing to see in Dresden, there are only ruins.

This is a bearded misconception!!! Dresden has long been different: restored, bright, alive. Welcome to Dresden, the treasury of Saxon Baroque!