Carolasee
Former gravel pit turned boating lake with tree islands, a fountain and a lakeside restaurant.
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This guide to the Carolasee in Dresden's Großer Garten starts at a hand-worked railway barrier by the water and the young volunteers of the park railway who have staffed its posts since the early nineteen fifties. It then digs into the ground beneath the lake, back to a worn-out gravel pit, the garden director Friedrich Bouché, and the winter of eighteen eighty-one. Along the way you'll meet a queen and two businessmen with an unusual lease. Best heard standing near the crossing on the lake's edge.
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