Today, a route they inspired — the Malerweg, German for “painters’ way” — will take you more than 110 kilometres through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.

narrow valleys and gorges seem far more like those of Switzerland than the rest of the scenery in former East Germany. It's the home of the Saxon Switzerland national park, which protects more ...

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066 and they originally come from Germany and Scandinavia. Some historians say they were driven from ...