the German capital Berlin, a metropolis with extensive nightlife, cultural life and an interesting younger history
the castle Sanssouci close to Potsdam, that has been build as a copy of the French Versailles
the city of Dresden with its magnificient old town, which has been called the "Florence of the North"
the Erzgebirge mountains with its century-old heritage of mining and wonderful forests and unspoilt landscape
hidden gems like the Spreewald area, a network of channels and lakes in the Lower Lausitz, 200 km south of Berlin, or the Upper Lausitz area with beautifully reconstructed cities like Bautzen or Goerlitz
