Großer Garten (Dresden)

The green heart of Dresden with Baroque history

As a local recreation area, the Great Garden is the ideal place for all kinds of leisure activities, such as running, hiking, skating, ... There are many seating options that invite you to linger. In the beer gardens you can also pass the time with a cyclist, for example.

nice big park for walking and lingering

The Great Garden invites with its innumerable roads, paths and paths always to a discovery trip, whether on foot, with the skates or to Rad. The expansive meadows invite you to linger and other sporting activities. If you are in the mood for a beer, you can settle down in the summer cafe, Carolaschlösschen or the Torwirtschaft

The Great Garden in Dresden is a park of baroque origin. Today's largest park in the city was built in 1676 at the behest of Elector Johann Georg III. laid out and expanded several times in the course of its history, so that it has an almost rectangular floor plan on an area of around 1.8 square kilometers. A green lung in the middle of the city.

A green oasis in the city that attracts many visitors, joggers, inline skaters, etc. Possibility to go boating and of course for a stop at the Carolaschlösschen.

A round through the Great Garden is worthwhile in every season.

The Great Garden as the "Central Park" of Dresden is by far the largest inner-city park in the city and serves the population as a place for recreation and sports. With the adjoining sights of the zoo, the botanical garden and the Transparent Factory, it is also part of every sightseeing tour through the Saxon capital.

The Great Garden in Dresden is a park of baroque origin. Today's largest park in the city was built from 1676 at the behest of Elector Johann Georg III. laid out and expanded several times in the course of its history, so that it has an almost rectangular floor plan on an area of around 1.8 square kilometers. Its length is about 1900 meters, the width reaches a maximum of 950 meters. The most important building in the center of the park is the summer palace built around 1680 based on a design by Johann Georg Starcke.
The palace in the Great Garden, also known as the summer or garden palace, is a baroque pleasure palace in Dresden that was built from 1679 onwards.

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Also a very nice statue in the large garden.

The large garden in general is always worth a visit. I can only recommend it.

Dresden's largest and most beautiful park with straight avenues and winding paths, sculptures and ponds, open-air theaters and garden bars, with a botanical garden, zoo and park railway.