This hop-on, hop-off tour will offer you the chance to explore Dresden from a double-decker bus. The bus route will feature 22 stops across the Saxon capital, including the Zwinger museum complex, Dresden Frauenkirche church, Loschwitz Bridge and Albrechtsberg Palace. During the journey, you can listen to an audio guide which will provide facts and historical insights into the sites you pass along the way.
Additionally, you'll be able to enjoy two guided walking tours of the city – one will be available during the day in English and German, and the other is a Night Watchman Tour, which will be conducted at night and only in German. Both tours will allow you to explore the Old Town and its sights on foot.
During this walking tour, you’ll discover the city of Dresden guided by a night watchman. Your tour will start with a night cap or gummy bears for the kids, before walking around the city as your guide regales you with the tales and legends of Dresden. You’ll be able to explore various local landmarks, including the Theaterplatz, the Brühlsche Terrasse and the Semper Opera House.
During this one-hour tour, you'll explore the magnificent interior and galleries of the Frauenkirche Dresden. You'll have skip-the-line entry, and a knowledgeable guide will lead you around. You can take in the intricate architecture – an example of baroque Lutheran design – and you'll also have access to the galleries to view the murals. Your guide will help bring the Frauenkirche to life as you learn about the master builders that created it.
On this guided nighttime walking tour, you will follow the night watchman on his rounds through Dresden’s old town.
You will weave through narrow alleyways passing landmarks such as the Semper Opera House, Zwinger, Palace Square and the Brühlschen Terrassen as the watchman tells you spooky anecdotes about the city and key historical figures from centuries past.
On this historical walk through Dresden's Old Town, you'll have the opportunity to visit some of Germany's most impressive baroque monuments. Your first stop will be the Frauenkirche, a reconstructed church featuring one of the largest domes in Europe. Led by your guide, you'll tour the structure's interior and learn more about its ornate altar and intimate lower church. The itinerary also includes time at the Zwinger, a sprawling palace known for its art galleries and tranquil courtyard.
This experience allows you to explore Dresden with a hop-on hop-off bus tour and ride on a historic railway. To discover the city of Dresden, you'll board a hop-on hop-off bus to visit Dresden highlights, landmarks and neighborhoods. You'll also have an audio guide on the bus tour, helping you decide where you'd like to explore. The bus tour stops at 22 locations throughout each route.
Along with the bus tour, you can also take a panorama tour of the surrounding area. You can ride on a historic railway to visit mountain stations overlooking the Dresden Elbe Valley. You'll have the choice of taking a suspension railway up to the Weißen Hirsch or Oberloschwitz mountain stations. Both stations provide photo-worthy views of the surrounding landscape.
On this historic walking tour, you will explore Dresden’s Old Town with an expert guide.
Starting at Neumarkt, a central square that was bombed in 1945, you will visit Frauenkirche, a soaring domed church rebuilt in the late 20th century. You’ll then make your way to Zwinger – a baroque 18th-century palace – and Semperoper just next door. Along the way, you'll learn about the history of the city, from the Middle Ages through the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Other tour highlights include Augustus Bridge, Brühl's Terrace, the Renaissance palace of Residenzschloss and much more.
The bizarre rocky landscape, which opens in the upper Elbe valley, from Pirna, has always been the preferred excursion destination for the Dresdeners and their guests. Swiss painters discovered the sandstones as a unique landscape setting just over two hundred years ago. The well-known natural highlights such as Bastei, Königstein Fortress, Schrammsteine etc. have already inspired artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Richard Wagner and Carl Maria von Weber. Our tour takes you directly to the Saxon Switzerland National Park, further via Bastei and Königstein Fortress - for a very special nature experience.
On this guided tour, you'll explore the grand Dresden Castle, one of the most important examples of Renaissance architecture in Germany.
You'll hear tales of centuries gone by from your guide and visit sites including the Green Vault treasury featuring a cherry stone with 185 faces and the Golden Coffee Set. You'll learn about the jousting tournaments that once took place on the site and have time to appreciate the exhibitions of the New Green Vault, the Turkish Chamber and the Giants Hall.
Other highlights include the English Staircase, the Princely Wardrobe and the Small Ballroom. From April to October, you can climb up the Hausmannsturm tower to enjoy a panoramic view over the Elbe Valley.
Feb. to Dec. │ Mon / Wed / Fri / Sat │1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. (incl. 15 min break) │ Price including admission │Up to 16 years free
✔ Insights into the unusual building and music history of one of the most beautiful and well-known opera houses in the world
✔ Exciting backgrounds to the most famous works of art in the treasury, green vault (cherry stone with 185 faces, golden coffee, centerpiece by the great mogul Aureng-Zeb and much more)
✔ can be supplemented with a city tour with an inside tour of the Frauenkirche in the morning (10:30 a.m.)
The program depends on the rehearsal and schedule of the Semperoper. For the few individual cases in which the date of the Semper Opera tour differs, you will receive information and an alternative / alternative from the organizer. Further information and a list of the relevant dates can be found on the website of the organizer.
On this 1.5-hour guided bus tour, you will travel in a red double-decker bus through the city passing its most important sights with expert insights on their cultural and historical significance and live comments in German.
You will pass by the Old Town, the baroque New Town, Pfunds Dairy and the Blue Wonder bridge. You will also see the three Elbe castles, Schlossplatz with the Residenzschloss, the Frauenkirche and the Altmarkt.
Other highlights include Sophienstrasse where you will see the Dresden Zwinger and the Theaterplatz with the Semperoper Dresden.
MEISSEN, Europe’s first porcelain manufactory with the first registered trademark, has a wealth of patterns stretching back more than 300 years to draw upon when creating and meticulously crafting new designs.
You can witness world-famous Meissen porcelain being made in the demonstration section of our House-of-Meissen Theme World and, in its Museum, learn all about our history as well as being given a unique rundown of the overall development of Meissen porcelain.
Our stores will give you plenty of inspiration on what to select from MEISSEN’s largest product range and there’s always the enticing option of rounding your visit off with culinary delights from the Meissen café and restaurant.
With this ticket, you’ll be able to experience panoramic views of Dresden’s recreated historical skylines in Panometer Dresden.
Once inside the venue, you can view the artwork from the ground level or climb the interior tower to see 360 degree-views of the art, which stands 89 feet tall. You’ll be able to see recreations of Dresden’s 1945 skyline, showing the impact of World War II, along with the city during the Baroque period.
Our sightseeing tours with the double deckers are entertaining, as well as informative.
Enjoy the view from the „top floor“ an see the historical centre. The roundtrip takes you through quarters with splendid art nouveau architecture and to the impressive residental area of eastern Dresden. Exprience „Blaues Wunder“ the well known bridge of Dresden, and lean back while driving through the picturesque meadows of river Elbe with its castles. The tout continues along „Pfunds Molkerei“ (Pfund´s diary) and into the baroque part of Dresden-Neustadt.
Our tours are fully escorted and narrated in German by our live speaking Dresden tour guides. Take a ride with the Double Deckers and let Dresden surprise you.
Tour is only available in German language!
On this city tour, you’ll discover the charms of Dresden with a local guide and visit some of its top attractions in depth. You’ll stroll through the Old Town, taking in the unique atmosphere as you learn more about the city’s history. You’ll step into the Frauenkirche to take in its opulent interior with a close look at the altar, paintings and lower church.
At the Zwinger palace complex, you’ll spend time exploring its extensive grounds. On the second half of your tour, you’ll take a one-hour guided journey through the Semperoper Opera House. You’ll gain insight into one of the world’s most beautiful opera houses as you make your way through the decadent foyer and auditorium, hearing theater secrets and entertaining anecdotes.
