Advantages: magnificent museum Disadvantages: nothing
...Europe. In German it's called Grünes (green) Gewölbe (vault). The founder of the green vault was Augustus the Strong, the king of Saxony and King of Poland. The exhibition was formerly in the castle of the Wettiner in Dresden. Wettiner was the name of the king-family from Saxony - and Augustus the strong was one of them, probably the most important. After the destruction in 1945 and the come back from Russia move the collection to the Albertinum, ... ...the river Elbe: http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query?ORT=dd;LL=%2B51.052765%2B13.746979;GR=4
Nowadays you can visit 4 rooms in this Treasury museum. The green room, the blue room, the red room and at last the yellow room. In the first room, the green room, you can see masterpieces from the 16. and 17. century, the time of renaissance. The next room, the blue room, show you, masterpieces of amber and ivory. In the third room - the red room - is exhibited ...
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Advantages: Europe's richest treasure chambers Disadvantages: an overkill of splendour
...The Green Vault (GrünesGewölbe in German) is a must-see for any visitor to Dresden, the capital of Saxony in the east of Germany. It's Europe's most sumptuous treasure chamber, if you haven't heard of it yet, this may be due to the fact that it was hidden behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Before I'm going to take you with me on a tour, I have to tell you three things:
1) There isn't *one* Green Vault, there are *two*.
2) Neither is green
3) Nor a vault in the sense of an underground chamber.
Puzzled? Be patient, everything will become clear eventually.
The Green Vault is situated in the Schloss (Royal Palace), one of the Baroque buildings on the left bank of the river Elbe which are the cultural heart of Dresden. After the air-raid of the American and British allied forces on 13th February, 1945, they were rebuilt rather...
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Advantages: Great arts and history, nice people, great food Disadvantages: Weather (sometimes, still better than most uf the UK ;-)
...of the finest royal art collections in the world), GruenesGewoelbe (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...
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Advantages: reasonal prices, culture, scenery, beer and people Disadvantages: many germans
...impressive (and most ugly) sight the"Völkerschlachtdenkmal", a 90m high monument from 1913 that remembers of the battle of nations in 1871.
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Is named as "Elbflorenz" (Florence of the North) the cultural highlight of Saxony. It is really worth a visit. The baroque Zwinger, The Semperoper (opera), the Town Hall, the promenade "Brühlsche Terasse" with view to the river "Elbe" and other baroque buildings form a unique historic ensemble in the city centre. Mentionable is the "Fuerstenzug" a big mural picture from ceramic tiles from Meissen porcelain.
The museum "GrünesGewölbe" (Green Vault)" in the "Albertinum" displays a very fine of collection of jewels and other precious objects. The other worth visiting museum is the Old Masters Gallery, with works of old masters including the Sistine Madonna from Rafael. The hygiene...
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16.09.2007
