Landmarks

Places

• Frauenkirche The Frauenkirche is a Protestant church on Dresden's Neumarkt, built between 1726 and 1743 to George Bähr's design and rebuilt between 1993 and 2005.
• Zwinger The Zwinger (German: Dresdner Zwinger) is a Baroque ensemble of pavilions and galleries around a courtyard, now home to museums of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
• Semperoper The Semperoper is the opera house of the Saxon State Opera Dresden (Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden) and the home of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden; the rebuilt house reopened on 13 February 1985, forty years after its destruction.
• Brühl's Terrace Brühl's Terrace (Brühlsche Terrasse) is a promenade on the Elbe side of Dresden's old town, standing on part of the city's old fortifications.
• Fürstenzug The Fürstenzug (Procession of Princes) is a mural of Meissen porcelain tiles on the outer wall of the Stallhof that shows the history of the Saxon ruling house of Wettin as a procession of riders.
• Blaues Wunder The Blaues Wunder, officially the Loschwitzer Brücke, is a steel bridge over the Elbe between Loschwitz and Blasewitz that opened in 1893.
• Hofkirche The Hofkirche, also called the Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the former Catholic court church and the cathedral of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen, built between 1739 and 1751 to Gaetano Chiaveri's design.
• Residenzschloss The Residenzschloss (English: Royal Palace) was the residence of the Saxon electors and kings and is now a museum complex of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
• Kunstakademie The Kunstakademie building on Brühl's Terrace, designed by Constantin Lipsius and ready for use in 1894, is used today by the HfBK Dresden University of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden).
• Yenidze The Yenidze in Dresden was built as a cigarette factory and completed in 1909 in the style of a mosque, with a glass dome and a chimney disguised as a minaret.
• Goldener Reiter The Goldener Reiter is an equestrian statue of Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony, known as Augustus the Strong, on Neustädter Markt in Dresden.
• Elbe paddle steamers The historic paddle steamers of the Sächsische Dampfschifffahrt, run by Weiße Flotte Sachsen GmbH, were built between 1879 and 1929.