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File 17-saxony-loc-ger7.dwg Book Germany 7 Initial Mapping Date Road Scale All key roads labelled? Hierarchy Date Title Hydro Chapter 17-Saxony Editor Cxns Spot colours removed? Hierarchy Nthpt Masking in Illustrator done? Symbols Author Andrea Schulte-Peevers MC Cxns Date Book Inset/enlargement correct? Off map Notes dest'ns Border Country Locator A1 Key - Author Cxns Date Basefile regi Final Ed Cxns Date KEY FORMAT SETTINGS New References Number of Rows (Lines) Editor Check Date MC Check Date Column Widths and Margins MC/CC Signoff Date ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd SaxonyPOP 4 MILLION / AREA 18,413 SQ KM Includes ¨ Why Go? Dresden . 141 Saxony has an enormous amount to to offer anyone inter- Around Dresden . 155 ested in history, music, art, mountain scenery, castles and Saxon Switzerland . 158 cobbled-street market towns, and its warm and welcoming Leipzig . 161 people, stellar opera houses and deeply entrenched love of culture will win over anyone who takes the time to explore Chemnitz . 173 this often-overlooked corner of Germany. Görlitz . 175 Many heavyweights have shaped Saxony’s cultural land- Zittau . 180 scape: Bach, Canaletto, Goethe, Luther and Wagner among them, while Dresden’s Semperoper and Leipzig’s Gewand- haus have for centuries been among the world’s finest mu- sical venues. Today both of Saxony’s biggest cities also offer impressive (and great value) music, art and entertainment Best Places to activities, which ensure a steady flow of young creatives Eat from all over Germany and beyond. ¨ Restaurant Genuss-Atelier Many visitors skip Saxony and head straight to Berlin (p152) for their fix of Eastern Germany, missing Saxony’s unique charms and character (not to mention an entirely different ¨ Vino e Cultura (p178) history). If you take the time to come here, you’ll quickly ¨ Restaurant Vincenz understand how multifaceted, progressive and fascinating Richter (p158) Saxony can be. ¨ Stadtpfeiffer (p171) ¨ Auerbachs Keller (p171) When to Go The cities are fun in the summer when life moves outdoors, festivals are in full swing and you can boat or cycle along Best Places to the Elbe River. Thanks to lots of world-class museums and Stay performance venues, Dresden is also a fine destination in ¨ Hotel Börse (p178) winter, especially in December during the famous Christmas ¨ Steigenberger Grandhotel market (Striezelmarkt). Avoid Leipzig during the springtime Handelshof (p170) trade-fair crunch, especially in March and April. The Bach- fest in June draws scores of visitors. The trails and rock ¨ Hotel Schloss Eckberg walls in Saxon Switzerland are busiest in summer and au- (p151) tumn, particularly at the weekend. ¨ Burg Altrathen (p159) ¨ Ferdinands Homestay (p160) 141 Bad Muskau BRANDENBURG A13 Weisswasser POLAND B87 Neisse B169 B115 River Leipzig B101 B97 B107 E B98 Oschatz lbe B6 Bautzen Grimma Moritzburg A4 Görlitz River A14 B6 Meissen Radebeul B6 B176 Colditz B98 Zgorzelec Bad Dresden B6 B178 Lausick A4 Lohmen Rathen B95 Bastei B107 Pillnitz Schrammsteine B99 B173 A17 B96 Heidenau Saxon Zittau Freiberg Pirna Switzerland B93 Weesenstein Königstein Oybin Chemnitz Jonsdorf Meerane e Bad Schandau A4 g r B172 B173 i B170 A17 B101 SAXONY Lichtenstein b CZECH Zwickau e B180 z g REPUBLIC B95 r A72 E 020 km B174 010 miles DRE SD Saxony Highlights 1 Taking in the stunning 3 Clambering up the 5 Marvelling at the EN baroque silhouette of Schrammsteine (p161) for architecture of Görlitz Dresden’s Altstadt, gobsmacking panoramas of (p176), one of Germany’s with the remarkable the Saxon Switzerland and most attractive cities Residenzschloss (p142) and the Elbe 6 Treating your ears to a Frauenkirche (p142) 4 Donning sunglasses to concert at Leipzig’s storied 2 Travelling back in time view the dazzling treasures Gewandhausorchester to the GDR at museums in at Dresden’s Grünes (p172) Leipzig (p164), Pirna (p156) Gewölbe (p142) and Radebeul (p156) DRESDEN ment called PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans % 0351 / POP 512,000 Against the Islamisation of the West) was There are few city silhouettes more striking founded here and quickly became a nation- than Dresden’s. The classic view from the wide phenomenon. But although the city, Elbe’s northern bank takes in spires, towers once known as the ‘Florence of the North’, and domes belonging to palaces, churches gave birth to this anti-Islamic movement, and stately buildings, and indeed it’s hard to the overwhelming majority of Dresden’s believe that the city was all but wiped off the residents do not agree with its message. It’s map by Allied bombings in 1945. hard to find a single museum, cultural in- Dresden’s cultural heyday came un- stitute or university here that isn’t bedecked der the 18th-century reign of Augustus with large signs declaring support for multi- the Strong (August der Starke) and his culturalism, welcoming migrants and gener- son Augustus III, who produced many of ally subverting the PEGIDA message, which Dresden’s iconic buildings, including the itself seems to have lost public support in Zwinger and the Frauenkirche. While the the intervening period. Dresden and its sur- devastating 1945 allied firestorm levelled roundings may have been nicknamed ‘the most of these treasures, their contents were valley of the clueless’ under communism safely removed before the bombings and (due to locals not being able to pick up West now take pride of place in Dresden’s rebuilt German TV), but its public institutions now museums. proclaim themselves ‘für ein weltoffenes The city has had a few tough years of late, Dresden’ (‘for a Dresden open to the world’). however. In 2014, a populist protest move- Take some time to get to know this fascinat- ing, contradictory city..