Traveling across Germany, from Dresden to Liepzig, two of its most important historical cities

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By train from Prague to Dresden, the capital of Saxony, a town of about 500 000 inhabitants.
The train is relaxing with good service first Czech and then German, sit back and admire the beautiful green landscape along the Elbe river and meet the various towns where he commutes to fall in Prague.
Dresden, the capital of Saxony, was a city of art called the Florence of the Elbe, so rich that everyone thought was spared by Allied bombing during the Second World War and instead the British and Americans razed like many other German cities and Italian rescuers destroyed by these first razed the enemy's cities and then financed the reconstruction of their own, trying to gain in both cases.
The Germans were able to reconstruct it so well, following the pre-war photos, which today is really hard to see that this city has only 60 years old and not the hundreds that shows in its ancient buildings, its churches, the castle, the many museums imposing this side of the Elbe river is crossed by many bridges ancient and modern addition to the classic rock that is crossed by the city's tram to reach the other part of town, less impressive, less ancient, but filled with parks and fountains, the houses beautiful facades restored, a beautiful pedestrian area, some churches and palaces with statues dedicated to the great Prussian emperors.
The historic center of Dresden, made of dark stone buildings, is composed of the Hofkirche spectacular with its statues of prelates who are aligned longitudinally on the roof while his side is the castle, in fact, a big building now houses a museum rich, then the Opera House, the prestigious Semper built a local institution by the architect and then Zwinger.una baroque fortress with a huge façade on the square and the large inner courtyard with fountains, surrounded by a ditch on the south side which separates it from a beautiful green park.
The Zwinger Palace is home to six museums, including an extensive art gallery with the Sistine Madonna by Raphael and a porcelain museum and an extensive collection of glass that I have seen only by an external window because I had already had a bellyful of museums.
As the extraordinary collection of Saxon kings have admired the castle museum, which includes the Grünes Gewolbe famous jewel with the world's largest green diamond and gold and silver compositions, some gigantic and spectacular (like the court of the Aztecs and another Egyptian), masterpieces of the goldsmith's especially Dinglinger.
I admired then as well as rich porcelains, paintings of minor artists of the Italian Renaissance and German, glasses, bottles and glass trays of Milanese artists, cutting weapons, pistols and rifles of various ages and I was particularly struck by the last room, Turkish floor of the castle that contains a huge tent embroidered silk costumes of Turkish warriors and rich cloths for horses as well as many precious rugs and scimitars, and weapons of all kinds abandoned by the Turks during the wars of aggression to Central Europe, including the siege of Vienna in 1683 with the legacy of the bags of coffee which was introduced in Europe at that time and began the famous Austrian coffee.
There was also a fine exhibition of paintings and drawings of the great painter Kokoschka, the artist who I later met in other museums, and that struck me especially for the views of Prague and Budapest, the city that I visited during this beautiful journey.
I then visited another wing of the castle being restored with the walls of buildings painted outside and I got about a thousand steps to reach the summit of the tower from which I could admire the view of the old town and take lots of pictures .
Towards the middle of the climb there is a small museum with a collection of ancient coins very interesting.
Near the castle there is a door and an antique gallery frequented by street performers, a huge wall with color portraits of all the kings and emperors all''800 Prussians from the Middle Ages, and a rooftop terrace overlooking the river pedestrian with a very busy street below, with trendy bars and restaurants, while at the bottom there is a park and other classic black stone buildings which house important museums and a Jewish synagogue.
On the left you enter the old town .... more lively in the sense that the buildings are pastel with the huge square and Frauenkirche church overlooking the statue of Martin Luther. Inside the church was rebuilt in 1730 and inaugurated in 2006 with some original dark stones embedded in the new and original visual damage that effect, it remains open mouth because it seems to be in a theater as well as a valuable and original altar, very high presents all around a series of forums and a gallery decorated that go up to the dome.
In short Dresden striking for its beauty and originality of its old town that seems disproportionate to what is around it and that looks better on the other side of the river where you can 'see the skyline in all its length and majesty.
There is also a large market square with many stalls selling wooden handicrafts and food in the middle of a carnival of antiquity, to the delight of children.

The second day I took a train in a couple of hours brought me to LEIPZIG.
The city has the same size and Dresden in Saxony.
The railway station is very large and spectacular with a classical façade, while inside there are a lot of shops that make up a large shopping center.
Just before you reach the main road leading to the pedestrian center with a series of cold and gray buildings with facades that are reminiscent of a Teutonic town uninteresting, but it is not because right after you meet the most beautiful palaces with baroque facades and architecture which look like small castles.
There is an old church, chic shops, another shopping center that also extends in the basement and above the town hall market square with a particularly beautiful, long, yellow with a particular architecture with high triangular dormers on the roof.
Further on another church which houses the tomb of the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach, a native of Leipzig, which has also dedicated a statue facing, as well as the birthplace into a museum. There is also the home of Mendelssohn, another composer of Leipzig.
After you come to a huge building with many towers that looks like a castle, which houses the administrative offices of the city. But it does not end there because the other side you come an 'other structure that looks like a palace, but which is the palace of justice.
Going back to get in a huge square that houses the one hand, modern theater and across the old town hall with the front protected by a glass wall that protects very beautiful and ancient paintings.
In front of this building and you see a beautiful fountain in its right side with a church attached to the seat of the university being restructured.
In short, a beautiful city, not as spectacular and artistic Dresden, but perhaps even more dynamic, with its own distinct personality that makes it worth visiting.
Leipzig is also home to a museum very important in a modern building that looks like a glass cube. The Art Gallery, Museum der Bildenen Kuenste, is one of Germany's most important paintings by great Italian painters,