Holy Cross Church
Neoclassical church with a ninety-two-metre climbable tower and a famous boys' choir.
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This guide to the Kreuzkirche in Dresden starts in seventeen sixty-five, with the Venetian court painter Bernardo Bellotto at work in front of a shattered church. It reaches back to Prussian guns in the Seven Years' War and a builders' gamble on an old tower, and forward to what a Dresden engineering lecture made of his canvas. Best heard on the square, looking up at the tower.
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