Great Train Journey - Dresden: Part 5 (7 pics)

This will be the last of my posts on Dresden (for this trip).  So I just thought I'd throw a few more interesting photo's out for you to enjoy.

This is one of two statues that stand on either side of an entrance tunnel through the old castle wall.  This is right next to the Hofkirche and around the corner from the Zwinger Palace.

 I don't know what this building was originally.  But at the moment, it has a restaurant in the courtyard.  How's that for upscale?  :)

This is the Semperoper (Opera House).  Unfortunately, it was being renovated and was closed.  If you click the link I put into the name, it takes you to the Wikipedia page where is a picture of what the interior looks like.  This lies on another side of the square that the Zwinger Palace is adjacent to.

This building was on the east side of the River Elbe, and I never made it over to that side.  I think it is a ministerial building for province of Saxony.

This a look down the Procession of Princes.  Originally painted as a mural celebrating 800 years of rule by the Wettin Dynasty in the late 1800's, it contains images of the 35 rulers of that dynasty.  To make the mural weatherproof, it was replaced with 23,000 porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907.  At a length of 335 feet, it is the largest porcelain artwork in the world.  Luckily, the tiles only took minimal damage during the bombing of Dresden.  If you are interested (and I recommend you do), you can see a very high-resolution image of the mural here that you can zoom into and move.


 

 Lastly, I present something extremely rare.  Pictures of myself.  :)

When I was at the Zwinger Palace, a young Ukrainian couple asked if I would take a picture of them with their camera.  After I had taken a couple of pictures (one closer in, one wider), they offered to do the same for me with my camera.  As always, for some reason I hate the way I look in any pictures, but I figured at a minimum my Mom would want to see these.  So here they are, messy hair and all.  :)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures of Dresden.  I really, really, recommend you go there if you can.  It honestly seemed like a great city, and I hope to go back and visit more. 

Next up, my trip to Nurnberg (aka Nuremburg).