Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Dresden, Germany

The Albert Bridge is the easternmost of the four Elbe bridges in Dresden's city centre, it was built in the 1870s. The 316-metre-long bridge is named after King Albert of Saxony. In GDR times, it was called the Bridge of Unity, commemorating the unification of the KPD and SPD (1946).

Wikipedia: Albertbrücke (DE)

The perennial garden is a small park on the banks of Neustädter in the banks of the Neustäd in the inner Neustadt of Dresden. It lies between the Saxon State Chancellery on Carolaplatz and the Neustädter Brückenkopf of the Albert Bridge on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It is limited by the deeper Elbe Cycle Path on the Elbe, and Wigardstraße connects the two space on the Elbe -facing side.

Wikipedia: Staudengarten (Dresden) (DE)

Today, the Brühl Garden is only called the eastern part of the Brühl Terrace in Dresden on the Maiden's Bastion, the site of the former Belvederes (I - IV), but originally the entire garden on the Brühl Terrace. He was one of Brühl's glories.

Wikipedia: Brühlscher Garten (DE)

The Dolphin Fountain is a fountain on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden, Germany.

Wikipedia: Delphinbrunnen (Dresden-Altstadt) (DE)

The Sekundogenitur is a historicist building in the city centre of Dresden. Today it houses gastronomic facilities.

Wikipedia: Sekundogenitur (Dresden) (DE)

The Augustus Bridge is a bridge in the city of Dresden, in the state Saxony in Germany.

Wikipedia: Augustus Bridge (EN)

The Georgentor or the Georgenbau is the original city exit from Dresden to the Elbe bridge. It is located in the Inner Old Town on Schloßplatz between the Residenzschloss and the Stallhof. This first Renaissance building in Dresden was initiated by George the Bearded, who had the former city gate of Dresden's only Elbe bridge at the time converted into the Georgentor from 1530 to 1535. Today, the building impresses with its representative façade in the monumental neo-Renaissance style.

Wikipedia: Georgentor (Dresden) (DE)

Dresden Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden, previously the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, called in German Katholische Hofkirche and since 1980 also known as Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the Catholic Cathedral of Dresden.

Wikipedia: Dresden Cathedral (EN), Heritage Website

The Schloßplatz is a city square in the center of Dresden, Saxony, Germany. It gets its name from the Dresdner Schloss, the royal residence of the Electors and Kings of Saxony, which faces the south side of the square. The Schloßplatz is further bounded by the Katholische Hofkirche, the Sächsische Ständehaus, the Georgentor, and Augustus Bridge the over the River Elbe. Dating from the 15th century, the square was destroyed in Bombing of Dresden in World War II. In recent years the buildings surrounding the square have largely been restored so that the area again has a historic character.

Wikipedia: Schloßplatz (Dresden) (EN)

The list of stumbling stones in Dresden contains all stumbling stones that were laid in Dresden as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Dresden (DE)

The Theaterkahn is a former barge and since 1994 the venue of the Theater Dresdner Brettl. It is located below the Augustus Bridge on Dresden's Terrassenufer, in the center of Dresden. The theatre has space for 170 spectators and, as a professional repertory theatre, plays around 300 performances a year.

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The Italian Village is a restaurant in Dresden, Germany. It is located on Theaterplatz near the Hofkirche, the Zwinger and the Semperoper in the historic area of the city centre. The name refers to an earlier development at this point.

Wikipedia: Italienisches Dörfchen (DE)

The King Johann Monument is a bronze, six-metre-high equestrian statue of the Saxon King Johann on Dresden's Theaterplatz, which was created by Johannes Schilling from 1882 and unveiled in 1889. In the Baroque tradition, it stands as a point de vue at the intersection of the central axes of the Semperoper and the Sempergalerie.

Wikipedia: König-Johann-Denkmal (DE)

The Altstädter Hauptwache, also known as the Altstädter Wache, Schinkelwache or Neue Hauptwache, is a building in Dresden's city centre.

Wikipedia: Altstädtische Hauptwache (DE)

The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the Theaterplatz near the Elbe River in the historic centre of Dresden, Germany.

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The Zwinger is a palatial complex with gardens in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, it is one of the most important buildings of the Baroque period in Germany. Along with the Frauenkirche, the Zwinger is the most famous architectural monument of Dresden.

Wikipedia: Zwinger (Dresden) (EN)

The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings. Outstanding works by German, French, and Spanish painters of the period are also among the gallery's attractions.

Wikipedia: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (EN)

The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden, Germany, is a museum of historic clocks and scientific instruments. Its holdings include terrestrial and celestial globes, astronomical, optical and geodetic devices dating back to the 16th century, as well as historic instruments for calculating and drawing length, mass, temperature and air pressure.

Wikipedia: Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (EN)

The Stadthaus Dresden on Theaterstraße is a building of the Dresden city administration as an extension of the town hall. It was built until 1923 in the rare expressionist architectural style mixed with traditional style elements. Despite bomb hits in 1944 and 1945, it is one of the surviving buildings of Dresden's pre-war modernism. The architect of the house is Ludwig Wirth.

Wikipedia: Stadthaus Dresden (DE)

The Queckbrunnen or Queckborn is a historic fountain in Dresden, which stands on Hertha-Lindner-Straße in the Wilsdruffer Vorstadt. It is one of the oldest fountains in the city.

Wikipedia: Queckbrunnen (DE)

The Telecommunications Museum Dresden is a technology museum operated by the Interessengemeinschaft Historische Fernmeldetechnik e. V. in Dresden with a focus on telephony and telegraphy. It is located in the Telekom building on Dresden's Postplatz.

Wikipedia: Fernmeldemuseum Dresden (DE), Website

The Jakobikirche was a High Rhenish Neo-Romanesque church built in Dresden between 1898 and 1901 to plans by Jürgen Kröger. It was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and its ruins were demolished in 1953.

Wikipedia: Jakobikirche, Dresden (EN)