Beauty and history of Saxony’s castles

The first sight of Albrechtsburg Castle with the Gothic Cathedral in the background, as seen from the bridge on the river Elbe. - Photo by ANITA RAO KASHI

Our writer revels in the architecture of and history behind Albrechtsburg Castle, Konigstein fortress, Moritzburg Castle, Zwinger and Dresden Castle.

JUST a few kilometres out of Dresden, south of Germany’s capital of Berlin, buildings became sparse and gave way to a landscape of lush green fields and bare brown farms dotted with rolled up bales of hay. In the distance, a set of rolling hills, greenish-grey in colour, seemed like a made-to-order backdrop for the fields and farms in the foreground.