IF YOU GO

SLEEPING: Hotel Kipping has 20 quiet, tidy rooms behind the train station. The original building survived the 1945 firebombing (moderate, hotel-kipping.de). Aparthotels an der Frauenkirche rents 100 units in beautifully restored houses in the Old Town (splurge, aparthotelsfrauenkirche.de).

GETTING AROUND: Buy a day pass for the trams; it’s cheap, easy to use and trams run every few minutes. Most worthwhile sights are within walking distance along the south bank of the river.

INFORMATION: dresden.de/tourismus