Our hotel was near the "Zwinger", a rectangular-shaped series of galleries and museums from the 1700's.
Inside the courtyard of the "Zwinger", we looked across fountains to the various galleries.
Cute detail - check out the hooves on the kid begging for grapes.
View into one of the galleries...
... and detail shot of item on display.
Once outside the "Zwinger" we found ourselves on Theaterplatz. This is the opera building.
Detail on the Opera building.
Our Kurt Vonnegut tour took us to convention hall area. These are the administrative buildings but they were Dresden's slaughterhouses in WW2.
A street sign indicating the location of the slaughterhouse .
The entrance to Slaughterhouse Five with sign.
Inside the meatlocker area of Slaughterhouse Five. Eventually, this will be turned into a museum.
It is not known if this is the actually meatlocker that Vonnegut stayed during the Dresden air-raid.
The central heating plant close to the convention area and Slaughterhouse Five.
Older buildings in the area...
A monument in front of the administrative buildings that also house the meatlocker.
It is believed that POWs were more likely kept in these buildings (currently located across from the convention center) when there were no air raids.
A view of the current convention center buildings.
This is an inside view of the halls where American POWs and others were kept.
A view of Dresden from across the river Elbe during the Dixieland music celebration. We didn't see the fireworks in the evening but they were shot off from this side of the river.
Dinner cruise boats and paddlewheel steamboats cuised up and down.
Close-up view of a scenic corner in Dresden.
All of these old-looking buildings were completely reconstructed in the 1970s and later.
This architecture typifies construction during the former East German regime. The gold mirrored windows and minimalist form are typical for this era.
A detail of the artwork - the history of the red flag.
A panoramic view of a newly reconstructed part of Dresden with the Frauenkirche.
A fountain on a terrace near the river and by the museum of modern art.
Our tour guide described this building as the mosque of Dresden but it used to be a tobacco factory. Now it features the highest beergarden in Dresden, a restaurant and theater in the cupola.
Scenic view of a cafe-lined street.
This mural shows the history of all the kings of Saxony parading on their horses.
