Palace of Culture
Modernist glass-walled cultural palace with a vineyard-style concert hall, library and vast socialist mural.
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This guide to the Kulturpalast in Dresden asks what East Germany's planners did with a concert hall when the town wanted to eat, drink and dance instead. It goes back to the building's opening in nineteen sixty-nine, when it was commissioned as a House of Socialist Culture, and to the trick hidden beneath its seats. Start on the Altmarkt side, then save a few minutes for the great glass mural on the west wall.
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