The district was built in the Gründerzeit style and spreads from the right bank of the Elbe River to Alaunpark. Its cosy atmosphere is created by the intermingling of restored and old tenement houses with tight alleyways and winding courtyards with small shops.
So are you looking for something full of contrasts and colours? In Neustadt, a district of Dresden, you will find everything: legendary cafes, small shops, youth and a large dose of chillout.
The Zwinger, Royal Castle, Hofkirche Catholic church: Baroque times three, the three greatest attractions that create the image of the city. Let’s also not forget about the beautiful and impressing Frauenkirche church, rebuilt from the ashes in 2003. Almost the entire old town was rebuilt in the post-war period. Incredibly realistic and scrupulously detailed paintings by Canaletto were used by post-war architects for reconstruction of the municipal landscape and historic buildings of the city.
The Dresden Zwinger, like no other building in the city, reminds us of the great Baroque era and is a symbol of the city. Augustus the Strong commissioned this rococo complex of elaborate buildings and the green courtyard with fountains. The complex houses museums and galleries in well-restored pavilions. The most important is the Old Masters Gallery and the Porcelain Museum, mainly made in Meissen – the first porcelain factory in Europe.
The opera house was designed by an architect, Gottfried Semper, in the style of the Italian Neo-Renaissance and was erected in the years 1838–1841. One of the most beautiful opera houses in the world. World-renowned for its acoustics and premieres of extraordinary classic works such as Richard Wagner’s ‘Rienzi’, which premiered in Semperoper 1842.
