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A small stand in the crowded Altmarkt selling bratwurst only !!!! Best in class, believe me !!!
During xmas market they feed you immediately, rest of the year they deliver the meat you can cook at home.
Cjeck the site for more info (ohhhh God, a butcher with a website :-))))
Updated Apr 4, 2011
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This famous shopping street connects Wiener Platz with Waisenhausstrasse and has come into being first in 1851. After destruction by Allied bombing in 1945 the street was rebuilt in socialistic archtectural style. Here you find residential blocks, numerous shops and malls, cinemas, offices, hotels and restaurants.
To make this street more attractive a giant reconstruction program was made. Read more about it here
Updated Apr 4, 2011
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The Dresden Markthalle offer a mix of restaurants/bar and shops. In 2000 this great mall reopened after a big reconstruction of the building dating from 1899.
Business hours:
Mo-Fr: 8AM - 8PM
Sa: 8AM - 6PM
Written Jul 5, 2010
Address: Metzer Straße 1 - 01097 Dresden
Phone: +49-351-482040
Website: http://www.markthalle-dresden.de
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The Altmarkt Galerie is a big classic shopping mall with over 100 shops.
Shop locations
Business hours: M0 - Sa: 9.30AM - 9PM
Written Jul 5, 2010
Phone: +49-40-60606-7000
Website: http://www.altmarkt-galerie-dresden.de/
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The Prager Straße is a modern street with many chain stores like:
Boss
C&A
Esprit
H&M
Karstadt
Orsay
Mexx
New Yorker
P&K
Pimkie
SinnLeffers
Starbucks Coffee
Thalia
Timberland
Tommy Hilfiger
Vodafone
Wöhrl
Zara
Written Jul 5, 2010
Address: Prager Straße - 01069 Dresden
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Dropout Records specialises in Reggae, Dancehall, Dub, Ska, Soul, Funk, House, D&B, Techno, Electro, Goa-Psy-Trance, Latin, Punk, HC, Metall, Trash, Surf and Rock/Pop.
The entrance is through the adjacent DESIRE smoke shop.
Don't be scared from the alternative locals or the Hells Angels that walk around. They all are the friendliest people I ever met.
What to buy: Records
What to pay: You might find some cheap records in between.
Written Jul 2, 2010
Address: Alaunstrasse 43 - 01099 Dresden
Phone: +49-351-8042862
Website: http://drop-out-records.de/
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Popcorn is the leading shop in Dresden for second hand vinyl and CD's.
There is a vast collection with 3 bins of US collector items and a great collection of German 45 RPM records.
Business hours:
Mo-Fr: 1PM - 8PM
Sa: 1PM - 4PM
What to buy: Records.
What to pay: Average prices.
Updated Jul 2, 2010
Address: Alaunstrasse 20 - 01099 Dresden
Phone: +49-351-8012829
Website: http://popcorn-records.de/
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Walking up from the river we passed this small shop and decided to have short look inside. It became a very long look. This small store has so many beautiful things, I could have spent all my money there.
Apart from postcards and some very tasty souvenirs of Dresden, this shop specializes in the traditional wood carvings. From tiny penguins to a wonderful,huge Christmas pyramid - we saw wood craft in all shapes and sizes. You won't find mass production items there, so don't expect very low prices. I bought one of the penguins for about 10 Euro, a penguin father with a penguin baby, really beautifully carved.
What to pay: From about 2 Euro for the smallest items to several hundred Euro for the large Christmas pyramids.
Updated Nov 6, 2008
Address: Friedrich Wieck Strasse 3
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This is a large indoor Market Hall, very traditional and obviously very popular with the people of Dresden. There are several levels and coming in on the ground floor you can go up or down. The upper floors are built in gallery style forming balconies, so that at all times you can look down on the activities below. The hall was beautifully decorated for Christmas and even had a little mini ferris wheel for small children. I came across this market by accident when I was wandering round the Neustadt and was really glad . It was so different from the souvenir-filled shops in the city centre and an absolute pleasure to browse through and people watch.
What to buy: The Markt Halle provided everything you could possibly need and was a little like a department store laid out in market form. Upstairs had a large clothes shop, some light furnishings plus lots and lots of displays of crafts and decorative items. Downstairs was mostly food - very artisitically displayed -with more gift and toy stalls. There were stalls selling more mundane, everyday necessities of life but because it was in the run up to Christmas, gift items were taking centre stage. If you didn't have luggage restrictions you could buy some beautiful wood and glass items here.
What to pay: Things were extremely reasonably priced in the Markt Halle because it obvoiously caters for local people and not for tourists.
Updated Mar 17, 2008
Address: Ritter Strasse, Neustadt
Website: www.Dresden.de
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Dresden's Christmas market is less touristy than many. Of course, there is much of the junk you find in such markets but you'll also find nice crafts from the area. In fact the Saxony is noted for its wooden figurines that are used throughout Germany at Christmas.
What to buy: Along with the food treats and glühwein (hot spiced wine), local crafts are the thing to buy when at the markets. Favorites include pyramids and rauchermen. The latter are small figures that "smoke" when an incense is lit inside them. Christmas stars are beautiful and easy to transport. D was happy to bring one home to the states! :)
Updated Jan 26, 2008
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