Little known facts about Saxony:

• The smallest Slavonic nationality, the Sorbs, realised the advantages of Bautzen's position already until the Germans did .

• One of the best-known frontier-towns, Goerlitz/Zgorzelec, is tangent to the 15^th meridian and therefore it's exactly Central European Time there .

People have good reason for calling the capital of Saxony, Dresden, "Florence by the river Elbe".

• Up and down this river you find lovely places such as the old city of Meissen built on a granitic rock and well known for its china and one of the most northern wine-growing places all over the world - as well as the marvellous scenery of the bizarre sandstone rocks in the Saxon Swiss where you can go by a paddle-steamer of the "White Fleet".

• In the 11^th century Saxony already started to become one of the most advanced economic regions of Germany which represents its achievements not only at the Leipzig fair.

• There isn't any place in this federal state in the very south-east of Germany, in a region where three countries meet, that is further than 145 miles from the border with Poland and even only 95 miles from the border with the Czech Republic .

• The son of a pope ,Gotthold Ephrahim Lessing, was erected a "living" memorial in the strict sense of the word by the inhabitants of his birthplace, Kamenz, although he didn't return there being a great poet.

The city of Loebau, situated at the edge of the mountanious part of the Upper Lusatia,  has got a unique cast-iron tower from which you can even see some hills behind the German-Czech borders  if  the weather allows it.

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