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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Individual Arrival in Dresden

7:00 pm

Informal Get Together

Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe
Neumarkt 9
01067 Dresden

Monday, 12 September 2016

Guided walking Tour to the Sights of the Historic Old Town

9:30 am

Guided walking tour through the historic old town of Dresden

The city tour starts in the lobby of the Steigenberger Hotel, leads to the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) continues along the Fürstenzug (Procession of Princes) to the Hofkirche (Catholic Court Church), across the Theaterplatz with the Semper Opera to the courtyard of the Dresden Zwinger.

11:30 am

Lunch in the Café & Restaurant “Alte Meister” (Old Masters)

This restaurant was opened in 2001 after the reconstruction of the Zwinger. The Museum’s café with the same name as the famous Old Masters Picture Gallery offers fresh delacecies of international cuisine.

1:00 pm

Guided tour through the museum “Neues Grünes Gewölbe” in the residence palace of Dresden (New Green Vault)

More than 1000 most valuable exhibits, masterpieces of European jewellers’ art from three centuries are presented, for example, a cherry stone described in the inventory as being carved with “185 faces”, a masterpiece of micro carving.

2:00 pm

End of the Tour: Residence palace of Dresden

Further possibilities

There are more choices for museum visits like:

- Dresden’s Historisches Grünes Gewölbe (Historic Green Vault), very recommendable,
- Kupferstich-Kabinett (collection of prints, drawings and photographs),
- the New Giants’ Hall (presentation in the Residenzschloss (residence palace) of tournament and ceremonial weapons and accouterments collection from the Rüstkammer (armour chamber),
- The Türckische Cammer (Turkish Chamber), one of the oldest and worldwide most important -collections of Ottoman art anywhere in the world outside Turkey, and
- Climbing up the tower “Hausmannsturm” in the Residenzschloss, impressive view of the old town.

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Guided Sightseeing Bus Tour

9:30 am

Guided city tour by Bus through Dresden’s old and new Town,

starting point at the Steigenberger Hotel.
The city tour takes you through the center of Dresden past the Large Garden with the Hygiene museum and the transparent VW factory, through the Blasewitzer uptown along the river Elbe with the view of three different castles, through the Neustadt with a stop at the most beautiful milkshop of the world, the so called Pfund’s diary, (named after the brothers “Pfund”), continuing to Loschwitzer height.

11:45 am

Ride with the suspension railway

from the mountain station Oberloschwitz to the valley station in Loschwitz. Continuation of the tour by bus to Pillnitz.

12:00 o’clock

Arrival in Pillnitz for lunch in the Restaurant “Schloss Pillnitz”

(Pillnitz Palace). While having a magnificent view from the conservatory café into the palace park, the guests can enjoy regional Saxon Cuisine.
Walking Tour through Pillnitz palace gardens.

3:15 pm

Tour back by Steam Boat from Pillnitz to Dresden.

4:15 pm

Arrival at the Dresden Terrassenufer, end of the tour
short walk to Steigenberger Hotel.

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Bus Tour to Meißen Porcelain Manufactory and Moritzburg Castle

9:30 am

Ride by bus to Meißen,
starting point at the Steigenberger Hotel.

Visit and guided tour in the famous Meißen Porcelain Manufactory

Hundreds of thousands of people visit each year the first porcelain manufactory in Europe, which was founded in Meißen in 1710 by Augustus the Strong. Besides the maintenance of traditions in shape, color, and décor, also new ways of porcelain design are successfully trodden. In the open workshop you can experience how the world-famous Meißen porcelain is produced and hand painted. The Exhibition Hall presents shapes and patterns from the nearly three centuries of development of Meißen porcelain.

12:30 pm

Snack in the Café Meißen (served on Meißen porcellain)

2:00 pm

Ride by bus to the Moritzburg Castle

Admission and guided tour in the Moritzburg Castle
This impressive castle was built in Baroque style by Augustus the Strong between 1726 and 1736. It was a former hunting castle and is now one of the most beautiful moated castles of Europe. Particularly striking are the four round corner towers and the straight avenue that leads towards the castle. Hunting trophies can still be visited in the castle. The castle lies on a symmetrical artificial island and is surrounded by a large park with a large pond, a lighthouse and a lot of forest. Return by Bus to Dresden

4:30 pm

Arrival in Dresden, end of the tour

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Bus Tour to Saxon Switzerland

9:30 am

Ride by bus the Bastei Rock,
starting point at the Steigenberger Hotel.

The Bastei, a unique sandstone rock formation, has been a tourist attraction for over 200 years.

Guided tour with a walk to the Bastei Bridge
and through the Neurathen Castle
The Bastei rock and the Bastei bridge are undoubtedly the most popular and the oldest tourist centers in the Saxon Switzerland. Especially here you get a lasting impression of the bizarre rock landscape that many painters and poets, such as Caspar David Friedrich, inspired.
The actual Bastei is the viewpoint which protrudes the farthest from the sandstone massif, almost 200 meters above the Elbe and about 300 meters above sea level. Visitors get from here a unique and imposing impression of the Saxon Switzerland with its many different mountains.

Neurathen Castle (German: Felsenburg Neurathen), near the famous Bastei rocks, was once the largest rock castle in the region, today only the rooms carved out of the rock, passages, the cistern and rebates for the timber of the former wooden superstructure have survived. They are now part of an open-air museum.

12:00 o’clock

Lunch in the Panorama Restaurant „Berghotel Bastei“
The mountain hotel and panoramic restaurant Bastei - 194 m above the river Elbe –is located directly on the rocky massif of the world famous Bastei.
Enjoy already on your arrival the magnificent view over the Elbe Sandstone Mountains with its unique location in the heart of the Saxon Switzerland National Park.

1:30 pm

Bus ride via Bad Schandau, a little spa town, situated directly on the right bank of the Elbe, enjoying spectacular views to the sand stone rocks and fortress Königstein.

3:15 pm

Arrival in Dresden, end of the tour

6:30 pm

IAPWS Dinner,
in the ball room Paris of the Hilton Hotel Dresden within the Building Sekundogenitur,
Entrance at the Brühlsche Terrasse.