Discover Saxony
Slow travel in Saxony, Germany, means mixed forests, farmland edges and weekend-length trips. Slow travel works here when you stay long enough to notice the hinterland. Slow days here usually beat checklist tourism.
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Free Hanseatic Bremen
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Lower Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt
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North Rhine-Westphalia
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Rhineland-Palatinate
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Saarland
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Schleswig-Holstein
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Dresden
Baroque city on the Elbe — Saxon Switzerland sandstone next door.
- Day trips
- Saxon Switzerland
- Focus
- Culture + rock
- Role
- City base
Saxon Switzerland
Elbe sandstone towers — German twin to Bohemian Switzerland.
- Routes
- ~20,000+
- Grades
- I–XII (Saxon)
- Season
- Apr–Oct
Bastei Bridge
Iconic sandstone viewpoint above the Elbe — Saxon Switzerland classic.
- Season
- Apr–Oct
- Access
- Rathen / bus
- Routes
- Sandstone towers