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   Church of Our Lady

   Church in Dresden of 1743, whose stone dome collapsed in the firestorm of February 1945. Rebuilt from the rubble with 3,800 original stones, it reopened in 2005.

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   Zwinger

   A pleasure palace of 1728 by Pöppelmann built with no living quarters at all — orangeries, galleries and a court for tournaments, put up simply for parties. It was gutted in 1945 and rebuilt, and now holds three of the city's museums.

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   Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

   About seven hundred and fifty paintings collected by the Saxon electors in the eighteenth century, when they bought whole collections at a time. Raphael's Sistine Madonna is here, with the two cherubs at the bottom that have been reproduced past all recognition, and Giorgione's Sleeping Venus.

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   Dresden Cathedral

   The Catholic court church of 1751, built for a Saxon elector who converted in order to be elected king of Poland while his subjects stayed Lutheran. Its Silbermann organ was the builder's last work, and it is now the city's cathedral.

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   Dresden Castle

   The Wettin residence, begun in the fifteenth century and rebuilt after fires and after 1945. The outer wall of its stable yard carries the Fürstenzug, a procession of Saxon rulers a hundred and two metres long made of twenty-three thousand Meissen tiles.

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   Moritzburg Castle

   A baroque hunting palace on an artificial island in a lake, built for August the Strong. Its Feather Room is hung with a bed made from a million duck, peacock and pheasant feathers, and the film of Cinderella that all of eastern Europe watches at Christmas was shot here.

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   Green Vault

   August the Strong's treasury, and the largest collection of its kind in Europe — the Court of Delhi alone has a hundred and thirty-two gilded figures set with five thousand stones. Thieves broke into the historic vault in November 2019 and took jewels of enormous value; some were recovered in 2022.

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   Brühl's Terrace

   A terrace above the Elbe laid out in the eighteenth century on the old ramparts by a minister who took the land for himself, and long called the balcony of Europe. Three museums open off it and the riverboats leave from below.

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   Kreuzkirche

   The largest church in Saxony, in Dresden, rebuilt in 1792 after four earlier buildings burned. Its boys' choir, the Kreuzchor, has sung since about 1300.

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    Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

    Fifteen museums under one institution, descended from the electoral collections of the sixteenth century and among the oldest museum organisations in the world. It holds everything from the Green Vault jewels to a mathematics and physics cabinet of Renaissance instruments.

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   Bundeswehr Military History Museum

   The German armed forces museum, in an 1876 arsenal into which Daniel Libeskind drove a tilted wedge of steel and glass in 2011. The old building tells the chronology and the wedge tells the themes — animals, suffering, music, toys — which is a more honest arrangement than most military museums manage.

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   Albertinum

   A Renaissance revival arsenal converted into a museum, holding nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture. After the flood of 2002 nearly reached the stores, a new depot was built above roof level inside the courtyard, which is visible as you enter.

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   Neumarkt

   The square by the Frauenkirche, obliterated in February 1945 and left as a hole through the communist decades. The church was rebuilt between 1994 and 2005 using about three thousand eight hundred original stones, paid for largely by donations, including British ones; the square around it followed.

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   Galerie Neue Meister

   Three hundred paintings from the nineteenth century onward: Friedrich's Cross in the Mountains, Degas, Van Gogh, and Otto Dix's War triptych of 1932, painted in this city by a man who had spent four years in the trenches.

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   German Hygiene Museum

   A museum of medicine in Dresden, which describes itself as a forum for science, culture and society. Its events and exhibitions draw about 280,000 people a year, making it one of the principal museums of the city.

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   Sophienkirche

   The only Gothic church in Dresden, gutted in 1945 and blown up by the East German state in 1962 to make room for a restaurant. A memorial chapel has marked the site since 2009.

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   Großer Garten

   A rectangular baroque garden of 1.8 square kilometres in the middle of Dresden. It was laid out in 1676 on the orders of the Elector John George III of Saxony and has been open to the public since 1814.

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   Loschwitz Bridge

   A cantilever truss bridge of 1893 that crosses the Elbe without a single pier in the water, painted the blue-green that gives it its nickname. Local men cut the demolition charges in May 1945 rather than lose it, which is why it stands.

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   Dresden Armory

   A museum in Dresden Castle holding one of the largest collections of ceremonial weapons, armour and historic textiles in the world. It belongs to the Dresden State Art Collections, and the Turkish Chamber, its collection of Ottoman art, forms a separate section within it.

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    Dresden Porcelain Collection

    Twenty thousand pieces assembled by August the Strong, who called his condition a porcelain sickness and once traded six hundred soldiers to Prussia for a set of Chinese vases. His attempts to make it himself produced Meissen, the first true porcelain in Europe.

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