Dresden has to offer a lot! Especially if you consider to take a dive into German history, enjoy the arts and fine cuisine (yes, Saxony is the only German place for fine and not too heavy food).
After the wall came down in 1989, Saxony went back to the roots of the old kingdom (August the ... Read review
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS WOULD MAKE AN IDEAL GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS OR BIRTHDAY . The actual date is printed on each page. This engraving is over 140 years old. And is not a modern copy. THESE IMAGES ARE scanned at low resolution for quick uploading and are much better than the scanned image.. Size of print is approx14" x 9.1/2" if it is shown as whole page, or prorata.. Approx. Page size = 16" high x 11" wide. Ready to matt and frame. These old Prints really look great with Matt and Framed.. Note this print is from a periodical and has printing on reverse..
SKETCHES, OR EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS WOULD MAKE AN IDEAL GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS OR BIRTHDAY . The actual date is printed on each page . This engraving is over 150 years old. And is not a modern copy. THESE IMAGES ARE scanned at low resolution for quick uploading and are much better than the scanned image.. Size of print is approx 14" x 9.1/2" if it is shown as whole page, or prorata.. Approx. Page size = 16" high x 11" wide. Ready to matt and frame. These old Prints really look great with Matt and Framed. . Note this print is from a periodical and has printing on reverse.
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A review by NoMeansNo on Dresden (Germany) May 9th, 2001
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Sightseeing
Shopping
Nightlife
Ease of getting around
Advantages:
Great arts and history, nice people, great food
Disadvantages:
Weather (sometimes, still better than most uf the UK ; - )
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Dresden has to offer a lot! Especially if you consider to take a dive into German history, enjoy the arts and fine cuisine (yes, Saxony is the only German place for fine and not too heavy food).
After the wall came down in 1989, Saxony went back to the roots of the old kingdom (August the Strong or Augustus I has been king of Saxony from the late 17th century) by naming Dresden the capital of Saxony and trying to restore as many as possible treasures that have suffered under the former communist regime and many wars before that time (7 year war late 18th century, Napoleon's occupation in 1815 and the second world war with massive bombings by the allies). See this great, brief historic wrap-up of the city at: http://members.tripod.com/scapin_1/page2.htm.
Another great web site gives a complete picture of the history of Dresden with a virtual tour and more: http://www.dresden.de/rooteng/history/history.html.
Although it took a while to get to speed after 1989 and many folks were faced to high unemployment and heavy restructuring of the whole society, today Dresden presents itself in a new spirit and mix: Baroque and High Tech. At the same time when tons of investments have been spent to restore all old buildings and other cultural substance - the ?King of Saxony? (the Saxon's call their minister Kurt Biedenkopf that way) opened all doors for new technology and corporations that wanted to be the first at this East German Silicon Valley. GM daughter Opel opened Europe's most modern automobile manufacturing site there, Siemens established Infineon, Intel's first European competitor in the city and lots of youngsters from all around the nation settled in and around Dresden to drive this new spirit and run for the future.
Foreign investors and public donations made it possible to run massive programs to restore the historic value of the city alike. The world-famous Dresdner Frauenkirche is about to be rebuild after being bombed to ashes in the last war (where hundreds of women and children died that night). The project is quite ambitious as they have to put together tens of thousands of quarters and stones, mixed, both old ones (after cataloging and cleaning) and new ones, made from the same rocks as the originals. All stones are stored outside the church in huge shelves, quite impressive! See this impressive web site for historic details: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres10.html.
Other projects have been successfully completed already, such as restoration of the Dresdner Zwinger, Semper opera and some impressive museums and art collections. See this web site for details and description in arts and cultural treasures: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres12.html. If you like that interesting mix of baroque architecture, art and high tech, you should go!
How to get there Dresden has its own little airport that is mainly served by domestic flights and inner-European carriers. There are daily flights from almost all neighbor countries as well. If you want to drive from Berlin (Autobahn A13 South, about 210km) or Prague you may want to take major highways because smaller streets are pretty slow as they lead through many villages and towns that surround Saxony and the Dresden area. The landscape though, it breathtaking as there are smooth hills covered by cherry trees and small roads through the many fields. Best time to enjoy the landscape and nature would be spring then (starts in April).
Where to stay Slowly but surely Dresden becomes a worldwide famous city not only for its Baroque buildings but economy and perfect mix of history, art, culture, high tech and nature. Therefore hotels and other accommodations are pretty expensive already, especially if you want to stay near the main attractions. Some fine hotels charge about $100 and more but you would never forget a night or ten in any of the noble hotels there. Saxon's are famous for their hospitality (and there is a Saxon saying that goes: Saxony, where the beautiful girls grow on the trees). The food in the good hotels and the many fine restaurants in downtown are mixed internationally but you can always find Saxon cuisine in the menu (see later remarks). B&B is available too and motels or campgrounds.
How to get around Public transportation is easy and very well organized. Buses, trams and city trains (S-Bahn) are networking well together, Taxi's are not too expensive (about 1/3 of NY prices). All main attractions though, are pretty close together and if you would stay in downtown you may not even need any. Pretty cool are the riverboats and ships on the river Elbe. Most of them serve as restaurants or offer various entertainments.
The food Hmmmm!!! Some fine restaurants (try the newly opened Coselpalais just around the corner of the Frauenkirche or Watzke's Ballhaus for some very creative cuisine) offer a mix of international and domestic cooking. Here are some things you must not miss if you would like to try Saxon cuisine: Sweet, hot: Dumplings with sugar bibery sauce, crepes with wild fruits Meat: Saxon sour beef with dumplings, prime boiled beef (Tafelspitz, actually Austrian) Cold: Jellied prime boiled beef (Tafelspitzsuelze) Deserts: Dresdner Eierschecke!!!! - who can bring me 20 lbs??? There are many fine white wines around the area (just forget about the red wines there) and Dresden has a lot of great breweries too, where they only produce for immediate sale in the pub. Koestritzer and Feldschloesschen are some of their famous beers, pretty strong but wonderful in taste. One thing you just must not miss-out is the great sausage they make. Buy a fresh farmer's bread, a bottle of Koestritzer beer and a liverwurst or Knacker or Knackwurst with a domestic butcher. You will never forget that taste! In fact this is the best sausage stuff nation-wide (except of Thueringen where you could just take a bath in fine sausages).
Must see's Dresdner Zwinger, Frauenkirche, Albertinum (one of the finest royal art collections in the world), Gruenes Gewoelbe (if you like Rubens, Duerer, Picasso, Lionardo and the like), Weimar (a 30 minutes drive west of Dresden, great wine there and a neat old town). Try to talk to the Saxon's while having a great beer in a pub. The guys are very proud of their city and can certainly give you some secret tips too.
Here is another web site that offers great information about the city, nightlife, the arts and more: http://www.dresden-online.de/culture/index.en.phtml.
If you like to discover this city by foot, try not to go from late October through late February as the weather can get pretty nasty and cold. Other than that, Dresden is well worth a week of pure enjoyment and fun. The people are friendly (English no problem) and the city offers a lot. Maybe you want to take short trip to nearby Prague as well? If you have some more time, don't miss Leipzig (about 100km to the west) - see my other review to that city.
...You'll find my opinions about Dresden from now on in Home » City Guide » European Cities » Dresden, so you do not need to read this one (I asked ciao to delete it). Information about the Night Skating you find in Home » City Guide » European Cities » Dresden » Festivals & Events » Nachtskaten.
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Imagine the following: It's 9.30 pm, it's dark and you skate within 2000 people on a 4 lane well asphalted road, watching the century-old barok buildings ... ...attraction in our city. The Dresden Nightskating was one of the first ones of these events (may 1998) now establisht all over Germany. The Skating movement is really big and rich of influence here.
Every friday at 8 pm the skaters meet at the public halfpipe on the street "St. Petersburger Strasse". That is the one with the big diamondlike UFA-cinema and opposite the majors house. You can get there by public transport going to "Pirnaischer Platz". ...
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...to Prague, we stopped at Dresden for a few hours and below is my experience. Dresden, 124 miles south of Berlin, is the capital city for the state of Saxony. During the Second World War, the entire city centre was wiped out in the 1945 bombing which was master-minded by Winston Churchill. It is also the place where ex-president of Russia Putin stationed during the cold war. Our first stop was the Frauenkirche(the Church of Our Lady). The Dresden ... ...the Strong. At that time Dresden was strictly Protestant. Augustus the Strong ordered the building of the Hofkirche, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, to establish a sign of Roman Catholic religious importance in Dresden. In contrast to the Hofkirche, the Frauenkirche was built by the citizens of Dresden. It is said to be the greatest cupola building in Central and Northern Europe. ...
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Advantages: Very impressive architecture Disadvantages: Quite dark, dull and lacking life
Dresden is a strange city. It was practically bombed flat in the war, and as a result, like many Eastern European cities, it doesn't quite fit together aesthetically. One of the main points of interest is the Frauenkirche that was completely destroyed, and that is now being rebuilt brick for brick exactly as it was. They are receiving no funding for this from the 'rebuilding funds' that exist in the East, so it is all being done by donations. That's ... ...the museum of art.
If you go, don't be upset by the building site that is around the railway station. The way into the city centre from the station isn't pretty, but don't be put off.
The night life is quite good, but only if you're already there.
I wasn't enormously impressed with Dresden. The rebuilding done following the reunification of Germany is coming along at a rapid rate, and much more will have been completed now than had been when I ...
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...The Frauenkirche in Dresden first came to my attention when I was spending a year abroad in Germany. I was visiting Dresden for a couple of days so I had read up about the history and the sights. I was amazed by how impressive and unique the Frauenkirche was to visit.
Dresden's Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) was built between 1726- 1738. It was until the events of 13th February 1945, Germany's largest and most known Protestant Church.
As we all know Dresden and it's art treasures were destroyed by the Allied bombing raids, which had little influence on the course of the war and only really succeeded in destroying architectural wonders and refugees who had nothing to do with the war.
Under Communist rule the DDR decided to leave the ruined site as a war memorial and it was only after reunification that a movement for its...
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Advantages: excellent product & service, particularly in Business Class Disadvantages: saftey problems in the past, but maybe not their fault
..., mainly due to its fleet mix. The Boeing MDs have been problematic (not only with Crossair), just recently they all had to be fitted with a new mechanical set for the tail unit rudder, after Boeing itself had spotted safety problems.
I was myself booked on a problematic flight once. I was to fly from Tbilisi, Georgia, to Zurich, onboard a Crossair MD 83, operated on behalf of Swissair. Yet our departure was six hours delayed, because the plane had to make an emergency landing in Vienna on the way to Tbilisi because some navigation systems had failed, as we were told.
On January 18, 2000, a Crossair Saab 34 crashed shortly after take off on a flight from Zurich to Dresden, Germany, killing all ten passengers and crew. The cause of the crash still hasn't been found, whether it was a technical failure of the aircraft itself, a maintenance...
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Advantages: magnificent museum Disadvantages: nothing
...vault if you'll visit Dresden in the east of Germany, because is much more magnificent as I can tell you about my poor vocabulary.
The opening times is 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. - but closed Thurdays.
The admission is 4 € -concession 2,50 €.
Sorry for my bad english and Thank you for your reading
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