The Grand Garden Palace
Baroque pleasure palace with Caesar busts and twin staircases, set on a pond at the heart of a vast park.
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This guide to the Palais in the Grosser Garten in Dresden follows a winter in eighteen nineteen, when an elderly Russian prince with a famous taste for odd inventions took an interest in the frozen pond below the palace. Along the way it reaches back to the court that built this pleasure house, with its tournament lawn and pavilions of game rooms, and to the Russian order that opened the garden after the Napoleonic Wars. Best heard from the edge of the Palaisteich, facing the palace.
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