Pillnitz Palace

This palace complex with its spacious gardens is located a few kilometres outside the Dresden city limit. Tucked in snugly between vineyards and the Elbe, this Baroque ensemble – built to serve the Saxon court as a pleasure palace and summer residence – attracts more than a million visitors per year. Yet it is not only the English-style park, the Camellia House and the chinois architecture of the Berg and Wasser Palais that draw them here from all over the world. Pillnitz Palace also owes its popularity to the extensive and multifarious holdings of the Museum of Decorative Arts, viewable in this Baroque setting every year from May to October.