The Hotel and Residence

The Residence was just across the street from the Taschenberg Palais Hotel. The frieze and fountain were reconstructed with both salvaged pieces and reconstructed pieces, every detailed considered to bring this jewel back to its shining beauty.

Day 8c - The Green Vault in the Royal Residence Palace

December 18th 2006
The striking thing about the exterior of the Palace - and typical of most of the restored buildings I see - is that in restoring, they left the soot on the stones from the massive fires after the firebombing of Dresden 60 years ago. Dresden was pretty much wiped out - the temperatures were so hot, that many of the huge sandstones that were used in construction, such as in the Frauenkirche, collap ... read more

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