Dresden: “A Forest City” by the Elbe River

Dresden, the capital and the largest city of Saxony in Germany, is one of the ten major cities in the country, and the second largest city in eastern Germany second only to Berlin. The city is an important cultural, political and economic center, as well as an important scientific research center for the country with the highest proportion of researchers in big cities, so it is regarded as the core of "German silicon valley".

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After the Second World War, Dresden came to life again. It was selected by German national tourist board as one of the 11 most attractive cities and ranked among the top 10 tourist destinations. The city known as "Florence on the Elbe River " attracts a large number of tourists every year.

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The Elbe River, one of the main shipping channels in central Europe, originates from the southern foothill of Krkonose Mountains near the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The River passes through Bohemia in the northwest of the Czech republic, and runs into eastern Germany 40 kilometers southeast of Dresden, and into the north sea at the port of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony. 1165- kilometers-long river covers an area of 144,060 square kilometers, about one third of which runs through the Czech Republic and two thirds through Germany.

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Located in Dresden, the Elbe valley is part of the Elbe river basin, equipped with cultural and natural landscapes. It was designated as a UNESCO world heritage in July 2004.The Elbe valley in the 18th and 19th centuries is 18 kilometers deep,and consists mainly of old pastures, palaces, monuments, parks, and monuments and gardens from suburbs in the 19th and 20th centuries. To this day, some terraces along the Banks of the valley are still used for grape cultivation, and some old villages still have the architecture and natural scenery in the industrial revolution.