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 Car Hire & Driving in Dresden, GermanyWelcome to Dresden Car Hire, Germany; available at Dresden Airport.Dresden Car HireDresden is a handsome city well worth visiting in your German hire car. Rebuilt after its wartime destruction, Dresden is now home to some of Germany’s best art and architecture, which you can explore in your German hire car. Dresden is also on Saxony’s Wine Road and close to eastern Germany’s finest scenery, making Dresden a great base for touring in your German hire car. Opinion surveys regularly show Dresden heading the list of Germany’s most beautiful cities that you can explore in German hire car. Dresden is situated on a broad bend of the Elbe, and Dresden’s famous silhouette of baroque towers, spires and domes is once more intact, as you will see from your German hire car as you approach Dresden, the result of decades of devoted reconstruction in Dresden following the bombing raids of World War II that almost destroyed Dresden. Few places are so well endowed with galleries and museums that you can explore in your German hire car as Dresden, their paintings, sculptures and other objects d’art accumulated by extravagant rulers of Dresden over the years. Cultural life flourishes on Dresden, and ranges from performances in the superlative setting of Gottfried Semper’s great opera house to the cabarets of the Neustadt, which you will find on the far bank of the Elbe, giving you a variety of things to see while in Dresden in your German hire car. The 18th century Neustadt in Dresden largely escaped the effects of bombing, and it is here that the heart of Dresden beats most strongly in the evenings, with an array of pubs, bars, restaurants and places of entertainment giving you plenty of scope for amusement in your German hire car while in Dresden. The highlights of Dresden that you should visit in your German hire car while in Dresden includes:- The Zwinger which you will find at Theaterplatz 1, Dresden 01067 in your German hire car while in Dresden. Arranged around a spacious courtyard with lawns, pools and fountains, the spectacular group of baroque buildings known as the Zwinger was built in 1709 in Dresden and now house the royal collection of art and porcelain, the Old Master Gallery and much more, all for you to explore in your German hire car while in Dresden. Overlooking the Elbe in Dresden, the elegant Hofkirche (Court Church) of 1755, which you can visit in your German hire car while in Dresden and was the last great baroque edifice to be completed in Dresden. On a visit on the Hofkirche in your German hire car, inside, the organ is the masterpiece of the great Saxon organ builder Silbermann, while the crypt houses the sarcophagi of Saxon rulers of Dresden. The palace of the Saxon rulers in Dresden, Residenzschloss, which you will find at Taschenburg 2, 01067 Dresden in your German hire car, began as a medieval fortress commanding the crossing of the Elbe and was extended and modified in Renaissance and neo-Renaissance styles right up to the abdication of the last king of Saxony in 1918. The Residenzschloss in Dresden was comprehensively destroyed in 1945, it is still being rebuilt and is destined to house a number of museums, some of which you can already visit in your German hire car while in Dresden. The best way to appreciate Dresden’s wonderful setting is to leave your German hire car and take a stroll along the superb elevated terrace of the Bruhlsche Terrasse, which over looks the Elbe. To one side are the historic buildings making up Dresden’s famous skyline and to the other the great river, which is graced by the white steamers along the quayside that you can drive down to your German hire car and explore while in Dresden. No other building in Dresden embodies Dresden’s history and beauty as poignantly as the glorious Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), which you will find at Neumarkt, 01067 Dresden in your German hire car while in Dresden. The great building’s lovely, bell-shaped dome formed the focus of Dresden’s skyline. It withstood the bombing of Dresden in 1945, but two days later, as the tortured stonework cooled, it collapsed and seemed to spell the end of everything that Dresden had ever stood for. But like so many other historic monuments in Dresden it was rebuilt and can be visited in your German hire car while in Dresden today. A final highlight in Dresden worth a visit in your German hire car is the Albertinum, which you will find at Georg-Treu-Platz 2, 01067 Dresden in your German hire car while in Dresden. The sombre architecture of this late 19th century palace gives little idea of the riches that you will find within on a visit in your German hire car while in Dresden, which are some of Dresden’s finest artistic treasures. Few cities can list a car factory as one of their attractions, but Dresden’s ultra-modern Volkswagen works, known as the Glaserne Manufaktur (Transparent Manufactory) and built on a prominent site on the edge of the Grosser Garten park in Dresden has to be seen in your German hire car to be believed. For more advice on what to see and do in your German hire car while in Dresden, you can visit the Dresden Tourist Information Office, which you will find at Dresden-Werbung and Tourimus GmbH, Postfach 120952, 01010 Dresden in your German hire car. Dresden Airport Car HireDresden Airport lies 9km (5 miles) from Dresden in your German hire car. Dresden Airport has 1 passenger terminal with an annual capacity of 3.5 million passengers through 24 check-in desks. Dresden Airport operates 24 hours a day. At Dresden Airport there are 70 short term and 7,495 long term parking spaces, should you need to leave your German hire car at Dresden Airport. Dresden Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a post office, bank, bureau de change, auto exchange machine, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, VIP lounge, duty free shop, newsagent/tobacconist, gift shop, car rental services, first aid, baby/parent room, disabled access/facilities, business centre and a tourist help desk, which can provide advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Dresden. Eastern Germany Car HireThe former East German states now eagerly welcome visitors to explore in their German hire car, in contrast to the situation during decades of communist control. Eastern Germany has caught up and cleaned up quickly, as you will be able to see while exploring Eastern Germany in your German hire car. The most famous destinations in Eastern Germany carry potent wartime associations, including Colditz and Dresden, which you can visit in your German hire car while in Eastern Germany. Other key attractions that you can visit in your German hire car while in Eastern Germany include Leipzig, popular with classical music lovers, and Weimer, once the hub of Germany’s artistic Golden Age. In Eastern Germany you can obtain a German hire car at Berlin and Dresden. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip in your German hire car to these places in Eastern Germany, visit our Berlin Car Hire or Dresden Car Hire links. The quality of the German road network makes driving a German hire car an excellent way to explore Germany. Although constant driving in your German hire car at high speed can be tiring, the Autobahn makes it possible to cover long distance across Germany in your German hire car in a short time, enabling you to move easily in your German hire car from one area of interest to another. A German hire car is the best way of getting around Germany if you aim to explore smaller towns, villages and the countryside of Germany. The best known feature of Germany’s extensive and well maintained road system that you can use in your German hire car is the Autobahn, the network of toll-free motorways covering the whole of Germany. However other roads like Bundesstrassen (national roads) and Landstrassen (main roads) are generally engineered to a high standard, with good surfaces and helpful signposting to help you navigate in your German hire car. While driving around Germany in your German hire car you will find that Autobahns are identified by a white letter ‘A’ and a number on a blue background and national roads by a black letter ‘B’ and number on a yellow background. The previously inadequate road network of eastern Germany has been transformed beyond recognition through the construction of motorways across eastern Germany, like the Ostseeautobahn, which links the Baltic coast to the rest of Germany, and through the improvement of other roads, which now make the roads of eastern Germany a pleasure to use in your German hire car. The downside to all this rebuilding across Germany is the density of traffic. In your German hire car, you may find that congestion can be acute in built-up areas and anywhere at holiday times. There are more than 100 named tourist routes that you can use in your German hire car which criss-cross Germany. Some, such as stretches of the Deutsche Alpenstrasse (German Alpine Road) that you can use in your German hire car, were purpose-built as scenic highways through Germany, although most are ordinary roads linking places of similar interest that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while. The best known of these routes that you can explore in your German hire car while is probably the Romantische Strasse (Romantic Road), which run from Wurzburg in northern Bavaria to Fussenn at the foot of the Alps and takes you through picturesque, historic towns in your German hire car on the way. Even if they are not designated as such, many of the roads you can use in your German hire car through Germany’s well-wooded uplands qualify as scenic routes, and extensions of the Autobahn networks that you can use in your German hire car also offer spectacular visual experience of the German countryside. Germans are fast drivers and determined popular resistance among motorists has prevented the adoption of a compulsory speed limit on Germany’s Autobahn. Although the speeds can be a little unnerving when driving in your German hire car, most drivers are aware of what they are doing and respect the rules of the road, having passed Germany’s particularly rigorous driving test. Once you have become used to conditions in your German hire car, you will find the behaviour of fellow road users fairly predictable. While exploring Germany in your German hire car it is useful to have knowledge of the rules of the roads. Germans drive on the right; on roads without yellow diamond priority signs, you should give way to traffic from the right in your German hire car; seat belts must be worn by all occupants of you German hire car; children under 12 must use an appropriate safety seat while travelling in your German hire car; you should halt at tram stops where there is no central reservation in your German hire car and allow passengers to cross the road; you should give way to trams and buses in your German hire car as they leave stops; ensure you use dipped headlights on your German hire car in poor visibility and in tunnels; do not use side lights when driving your German hire car; give way to pedestrians in your German hire car when turning at uncontrolled junctions (intersections); do not drink and drive you German hire car as the penalties are severe; traffic lights are supplemented by priority signs, which must be obeyed in your German hire car when the lights are not functioning e.g. at night or weekends; insulting behaviour to others while driving in your German hire car is an offence; fines can be imposed on the spot by police and your German hire car may be confiscated; finally a flashing light may indicating that you can turn right in your German hire car when traffic lights are red, but you must give way to traffic coming from the other direction.
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