Destinations

Prussian Parks and Palaces in Potsdam | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Potsdam

Standing in the glittering and glamourous Marmorgalerie (Marble Gallery) of the Neue Palais, with its shiny chessboard floor, weighty chandeliers, massive arch windows and lavishly decorated ceiling, I think, no, it’s not so good to be the King . . .

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Saxony | James Henderson | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Dresden

At first glance, Saxony was a rather a daunting prospect. A fearsomely complicated history - a string of margraves, landgraves, dukes and elector-princes who ruled ever-shifting principalities

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Dresden | Vitali Vitaliev | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Dresden

On my first visit to Dresden in October 1992, I was mistaken for a Princess Di's bodyguard.

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Germany's Christmas Markets | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Dresden

The Dresden Striezelmarkt, first mentioned in a document in 1434, can lay claim to being Germany's oldest Christmas market and the originator of the famous Stollen cake

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Escape to Colditz | Campbell Jefferys | Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Colditz

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, and locations all over Europe will be welcoming visitors who wish to mourn and others who wish to learn, while a castle in Saxony will relive some of the great escape stories of the time.

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