Fürstenzug
Porcelain-tile mural over a hundred metres long showing a mounted procession of Saxon rulers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Fürstenzug in Dresden starts with a trick of the eye on Augustusstrasse and follows a mural through two lives: a painter's scratched plaster in the eighteen seventies, and the Meissen porcelain that replaced it. You'll walk the line of Wettin margraves, dukes, electors and kings, and the scholars, craftsmen and children marching beside them. Best heard on the far side of the street, then walking the wall from left to right.
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