If you like Christmas you should visit Dresden! There are more than seven Christmas markets in the city center at the moment whether on the New Market Square, on the Prager Strasse or in the New Town but the most famous one is Germany’s oldest Christmas Market – the Striezelmarkt on the Old Market Square.
The annual highlight for tourists and the inhabitants is the Stollen parade during the Advent season which is a tribute to Dresden’s most famous Christmas cake. The world’s biggest Stollen is drawn on a carriage through the old town up to the Striezelmarkt where it is cut into slices with the help of a huge Stollen knife and then sold for charity.
This year’s Stollen was made by about 50 local bakeries, it had a weight of nearly 3 tones, a length of 3.5m and contained 170 million raisins and 460kg butter!
Find out more about the history of the Stollen during our Christmas walking tours which are offered daily at 11 AM until 24th December. It is worth joining as we have a little surprise for each guest at the end of the tour.
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Dresden is a German city visited from guests from all over the world. An English-guided walking tour by Dresden Walks offers international visitors insight into the unique history and culture of the “old” city center of Dresden, the capital of Saxony.
The 2012 Dresden Music Festival presents during the next weeks a multifaceted Festival with the special focus to the European Triangel between Prague, Vienna and Budapest. From May 15th to June 3th several concerts with bohemian, hungarian and austrian but international composer and interpreter will take place at the Festival.
… after the set-up of the model train fair in February 2012 in Dresden.
