Walks · Dresden · English
4 narrated stops, 12 minutes of stories, 1.5 km on foot. Press play at each stop — no app needed — or open the walk in Avsha and let the stories keep coming as you move.
Stop 1 · Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany · 3 min
In short: Augustus the Strong originally built the palace to showcase his vast collection of East Asian and Meissen porcelain. Today, the restored building houses the Museum of Ethnology and the State Museum for Prehistory.
↓ 450 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 2 · Goldener Reiter, Dresden, Germany · 3 min
In short: The statue depicts Friedrich August I, known as August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Unveiled in 1736, the copper figure is covered in twenty-four-carat gold leaf and shows Augustus dressed as a Roman Caesar facing his Polish kingdom.
↓ 800 m · 11 min to the next stop
Stop 3 · Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany · 3 min
In short: The Fürstenzug, or Procession of Princes, is the world's largest porcelain artwork, consisting of roughly twenty-three thousand Meissen tiles. Stretching over one hundred meters in Dresden, it depicts nearly eight hundred years of history from the House of Wettin dynasty.
↓ 250 m · 4 min to the next stop
Stop 4 · Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany · 3 min
In short: The dark stones are original pieces salvaged from the rubble after the church collapsed in 1945, while the pale stones are new. During reconstruction after German reunification, engineers used 3D modeling to return eight thousand original stones to their exact positions.