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Aveil of mist billows dizzyingly upstream \u2013 a frequent sight in the morning, when foggy dew descends on the Elbe valley. Unperturbed, the rocky outcrops on the hillsides above dream of times past, while the people below speculate on what is to come: they fence in their properties with an eye to the future. Cherubs and fauns adorn the vine- and ivy-clad villas which go by such fanciful names as \u2018Abendstern\u2019 and \u2018Alpenrose\u2019, \u2018Frohsinn\u2019 and \u2018Friedenseckchen\u2019. Elbowing their way in between sites of nostalgia are new glass tower blocks with a view but without a name. The destruction caused by the air raid of February 1945 and the 70 years spent on reconstruction are not forgotten. Time is a great thief of beauty, but not here, thank you very much. Please stay as pleasing as you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paddle steamers scoop the waters of the river aside, cruising past the historic city centre with its skyline of Frauenkirche and baroque leftovers of Augustus the Strong, the prince-elector who wanted to turn his royal residence into the dream capital of a future empire. The precious collections of the Wettin line are stored and displayed in the Zwinger and in the Residenzschloss, Saxony\u2019s answer to the Louvre. They rank alongside the world\u2019s best repositories of art. After all, the Old Masters Picture Gallery is home to Raphael\u2019s Sistine Madonna with its wistful angels, a work on a grander scale than da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa which can only be admired in eeting glimpses through hordes of camera-toting tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The author and journalist Peter Ufer has written several books about the language, mentality and other peculiarities of Saxony
\u00a9 Amac Garbe<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The clocks keep chiming, but here with a resonant soundboard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Florence on the Elbe\u2019 has the lot, from Canaletto to Dresden-born Gerhard Richter, that most expensive of contemporary German artists. The locals are proud of their association with the visual arts, and perhaps even more so of their devotion to theatre and music: the Semperoper, music festivals (including Jazztage and the Dixieland), world-famous singers, the Staatskapelle and Philharmonie orchestras, the most authors per bookstore in Germany as well as the highest number of piano tuners per household. The clocks keep chiming, but here with a resonant soundboard. Please stay as pleasing as you are.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tDresdners don\u2019t grouch\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n \t\t

Do you think Dresdners grumble so much because they’re in a bad mood all day long? The people of Dresden are just very sincere. Don’t you think<\/p>\n \t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thousands of students from every continent throng the campus of the excellent Technical University in the south of the city overlooking the Elbe valley. Scientific innovation is part of Dresden\u2019s DNA. Pioneering (and pro table) research has always gone on here, from the birth of European porcelain to the invention of the 35mm camera, from the original idea behind the television tube to solar film, and from treatment of Parkinson\u2019s to a cure for leukaemia. Digital networking grows stronger with time. Long may it continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The left and right banks of the river are home to the Saxons with their unutterably ne dialect. Big-hearted people tucking in to fresh rolls and Eierschecke, Stollen at Christmas, and cheering on their local football club, Dynamo Dresden. The proclamation on the team bus, in gold letters on black, is \u201cThe Legends from Florence on Elbe\u201d. That sounds to me like First Division talk, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll make it one day. The Dresdeners meanwhile babble on about the godless and the world. From time to time they swim against the tide. And, of course, that won\u2019t be changing any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n

Dr. Peter Ufer<\/a>\u00a0is Dresden born and bred. He writes about the history, mentality, culture and the language of the Saxons. In addition to \u201cDresden fu\u0308r Liebhaber\u201d (Dresden for Lovers) he has written \u201cRund um Dresden fu\u0308r Liebhaber: 99 Orte. u\u0308berraschend. anders.\u201d (Around Dresden for Lovers: 99 Places, Surprisingly Different) and \u201cDeutschland, Deine Sachsen \u2013 eine respektlose Liebeserkla\u0308rung\u201d (Germany, Your Saxons: A Disre- spectful Declaration of Love).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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