Culture & Leisure

For Drifters & Discoverers

Those who just completed a stroll through the baroque “Florence on the Elbe River” and were awed by Dresden’s Frauenkirche Church are able to learn more about modern electric mobility “hands on” just around the corner – in VW’s “Transparent Factory.”

Visitors to the "City of Trade Fairs and Media," Leipzig, can go on an exciting journey through time spanning the history of the earth at Leipzig Zoo’s "Gondwanaland," or they can experience a thrilling cross-country drive with the "Cayenne" at the customer center of the Porsche factory. Chemnitz, the "City of Modernity," provides a program full of contrast, ranging from industrial history to modern art.   

And Saxony’s smaller cities are also well worth discovering: Meißen, which looks back on a thousand years of history; Torgau, the cradle of the Reformation; Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge Mountains with its long and rich mining tradition; or Bautzen, the medieval "City of Towers."

Come and Have a Look! - At over 400 museums

A host of adventures can also be found at the 400 museums in Saxony. Do you want to discover fabulous, sparkling treasures? Then you should visit the "Green Vault" or the "Turkish Chamber" in Dresden. Or do you love technical history? Then a visit to the "August Horch Museum" in Zwickau or to the Saxon Museum of Industry Chemnitz will be perfect for you. Or quench your thirst for art history in the GRASSI Museum of Applied Art in Leipzig.

And last but not least, another tip: Experiencing wood crafts from the Erzgebirge Mountains in a totally different way – this will come true in the "Manufacture of Dreams" in Annaberg-Buchholz.