# Dresden: the 10 best sights

The Frauenkirche, the Zwinger, the Semperoper and the Elbe: Baroque 'Florence on the Elbe' according to travel blogs and reviews.

- 22 votes · 12 items
- Feb 8, 2023 · reiselust_hamburg
- https://even.best/en/l/669/dresden-the-10-best-sights

## Top 10

1. **Frauenkirche** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Baroque church with its 'stone bell' dome, rebuilt by 2005 after its destruction in 1945.
2. **Zwinger** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Baroque palace complex with the Old Masters Picture Gallery and Raphael's Sistine Madonna.
3. **Semperoper** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — One of the world's most beautiful opera houses, on Theaterplatz.
4. **Green Vault in the Royal Palace** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Treasury of the Saxon electors with jewels and cabinet-of-curiosities pieces.
5. **Pfunds Molkerei** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1880 dairy shop with hand-painted tiles, named the 'most beautiful dairy shop in the world' by Guinness.
6. **Golden Rider** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Gilded equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong on Neustädter Markt.
7. **Paddle steamer on the Elbe** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Trip with the world's oldest fleet of paddle steamers.
8. **Kunsthofpassage** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Colourful courtyards in the Neustadt, including the one with the drainpipe façade.
9. **Pillnitz Palace** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Chinese-style pleasure palace on the Elbe with a camellia over 200 years old.
10. **Brühl's Terrace** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The 'Balcony of Europe', a promenade above the Elbe.
11. **Blue Wonder** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1893 steel bridge over the Elbe between Blasewitz and Loschwitz.
12. **Procession of Princes** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 102 m mural made of about 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles.

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