The Zwinger is still available, but today only houses a stuffed bear.

On the east side, facing the town, there is a secondary defensive wall or zwinger.

A walled area known as the "Zwinger" was created between the two gates.

Then, in the late 1950's, the Zwinger was rebuilt; now the other monuments are being reconstructed from the ground up.

After the reconstruction of the Zwinger at the beginning of the 1950s, the library went back to its previous home there.

At the Zwinger, once the court of Saxon kings, half the galleries are closed.

The most famous building started under Augustus the Strong was the Zwinger.

"This has always been a burning problem for the people of Dresden," he said, leading a visitor through the Zwinger.

It is located in the Zwinger.

Included in its many art collections are the old masters housed in the Zwinger, an enormous 18th-century baroque palace.

The Cisterna Regia was situated under the former northern zwinger of the palace.

For the Zwinger he also provided the sculptures for the Nymphenbad fountain.

Three years later a factory was set up in nearby Meissen, and the best of its production forms part of the Zwinger's collection.

The Zwinger and the cathedral.'

It is located near Dresden Castle and Zwinger.

Ann Haymond Zwinger is author of many natural histories noted for detail and lyrical prose.

Reconstruction work under way on the Zwinger and other major buildings reflects planners' determination to revive classical Dresden.

The Porcelain Collection nearby is installed in one of the 18th-century pavilions of the Zwinger.

The Basel doctor and polymath Theodor Zwinger was his close collaborator.

It harmonised with the Zwinger's architecture, with arcades and baroque elements on its exterior.

In the Zwinger, an elegant late Baroque palace, visitors see world-class collections of porcelain and scientific instruments.

These deserts contain "some of the wildest topography left on earth," Ms. Zwinger writes, and clearly she wishes people would leave them alone.

Nowhere was relief greater than in the Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Zwinger.

The struggle left some Dresden buildings in ruins: the old Opera, two sides of the Zwinger and six houses were burned down.

The collection is located in the Semper Gallery, the gallery wing of the Zwinger.