Neptunbrunnen
Forty-metre Baroque sandstone fountain of Neptune, Amphitrite and river gods in a former palace garden.
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This guide to the Neptunbrunnen in Dresden's Friedrichstadt follows Heinrich von Brühl, the eighteenth-century Saxon chief minister whose wardrobe Frederick the Great mocked and whose appetite for wigs, porcelain and offices was legendary. It looks at the garden he bought here and the sculptor he hired to fill its far end. Stand at the edge of the big basin, facing the top tier, so you can pick out each figure as it comes up.
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