Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Dresden, Germany

The Golden Horseman is an equestrian statue of the Saxon Elector and Polish King Augustus the Strong, which stands on the Neustädter Markt in Dresden between the Augustus Bridge and the main street. It is considered the most famous monument in Dresden and is one of the most important sculptures of the Dresden Baroque.

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In Dresden, a blockhouse is the name given to the Neustadt Guard on the west side of the Neustadt bridgehead of the Augustus Bridge. The free-standing building is located on the Neustädter Markt, a few metres from the Golden Horseman. The architect was Zacharias Longuelune.

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

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The dolphin fountain is a fountain on the Brühl terrace in Dresden.

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Belvedere is the name given to four pleasure palaces that stood one after the other on the northeast corner of Brühl's Terrace in Dresden. The fourth and last Belvedere was built in 1842 on the basis of the first Semper Opera House, fell victim to the war in 1945, and a reconstruction was offered by a citizen in 2008 and 2016.

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

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The Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The gallery also exhibits a number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery, for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843.

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The Coselpalais is a palace in the Inner Old Town of Dresden, Germany. With the address An der Frauenkirche 12, it is located northeast of the Frauenkirche at the junction of Salzgasse with this side square of the Neumarkt.

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The Dresden Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Destroyed during the Allied firebombing of Dresden towards the end of World War II, the church was reconstructed between 1994 and 2005.

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The Peace Fountain or Turkish Fountain is located in Dresden's old town, it is one of the oldest fountains in the city.

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The Fürstenzug in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904.

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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 Royal Palace and the Stallhof. This first Renaissance building in Dresden was initiated by George the Bearded, who had the former city gate converted into Dresden's only bridge over the Elbe at the time into the Georgentor from 1530 to 1535. Today, the building impresses with its representative façade in monumental neo-Renaissance style.

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The Kulturpalast Dresden is a modernist GDR building by the architect Wolfgang Hänsch. It was opened in 1969 and had the largest multi-purpose hall of the city of Dresden, which was used for concerts, dance and entertainment events as well as conferences and congresses. After a multi -year renovation including the installation of a new concert hall, it was reopened in April 2017.

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The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.

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The Busmannkapelle Memorial is a building on Sophie Street in Dresden. It is a reconstruction of the Busmannkapelle and has been under construction since 2009, though planning began in 1995. It is a memorial to the Sophienkirche, lost in the bombing in 1945.

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The Cholera Fountain is a neo-Gothic fountain. It is located in Dresden on Sophienstraße, between the Zwinger and the Taschenbergpalais. It was financed by Baron Eugen von Gutschmid, who wanted to show his gratitude for the fact that Dresden had been spared from the cholera epidemic (1841/1842) that had broken out on the Oder and Lower Elbe rivers and had also threatened Dresden. In addition to Gottfried Semper as architect, Karl-Moritz Seelig took over the design, which was ceremoniously handed over to the city on 15 July 1846.

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The Green Vault is a museum located in Dresden, Germany, which contains the largest treasure collection in Europe. The museum was founded in 1723 by Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony, and it features a variety of exhibits in styles from Baroque to Classicism. The Green Vault is named after the formerly malachite green painted column bases and capitals of the initial rooms. It has some claim to be the oldest museum in the world; it is older than the British Museum, opened in 1759, but the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia was opened in 1714 and the Vatican Museums date their foundation to the public display of the newly excavated Laocoön group in 1506.

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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.

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

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