Low Airfares on Low-Cost Airlines to DRS and Meissen in Saxony

Dresden Airport

photo credit: jillclardy

Low-cost airlines have cheap tickets and low airfares for flights to Dresden Airport (DRS) from German cities and the Mediterranean. Lufthansa will introduce direct flights from Dresden to London-Heathrow from spring 2010 to provide the first direct flights for several seasons from Dresden to British (UK) airports.

Connecting flights are available from Dresden Airport (DRS) to around 400 destinations in more than 100 countries but the number of non-stop flights and destinations are far more limited. Cheap flights from Flughafen Dresden go mostly south to the larger Mediterranean region where Germans enjoy their holidays. However, numerous flights are available from the capital of Saxony to German airports and other West European cities.

Lufthansa flies from Dresden to London Heathrow so British travelers are no longer forced to fly via Berlin Airports. Dresden Airport is also very convenient for travelers to Meißen, home of Meissen porcelain. »»»Continue reading…

The Blue Crossed-Swords Meissen Porcelain Manufacturing in Europe

Glockenspieltor and Entrance to the Porcelan Collection (Meissen) at the The Zwinger in Dresden, Germany

The Saxon company Meissen and its blue crossed-swords trademark are synonymous with high-quality porcelain as befits the company that initiated porcelain production in Europe.

It was long the dream of Europeans to produce porcelain similar to the white gold that was imported at great expense into Europe from China. However, the discovery of the production secrets of porcelain came totally by accident. It was in Saxony, under the orders to produce real gold, that porcelain was first produced in Europe.

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