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Saxony Travel
Information
The Free State of Saxony (German:
Freistaat Sachsen, Upper Sorbian: Swobodny Stat Sakska) is the
easternmost federal state of Germany.
Located in the country's
southeast, it is the tenth-largest in area and sixth-largest in
population among Germany's sixteen states, and has a land area of 18,413
km² and a population of 4.3 million.
 Saxony has a
long history as a duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (the
Electorate of Saxony), and eventually as a kingdom (the Kingdom of
Saxony). Its monarchy was overthrown in 1918 and a republican form of
government was established under its current name subsequent to Germany's
defeat in World War I. Abolished during communist rule, it was
re-established at 3 October 1990 during the re-unification of East and
West Germany.
During
the early Middle Ages the term Saxony referred to the region occupied by
today's states of Lower
Saxony and northern North
Rhine-Westphalia. The Saxons had migrated there from the area of
present-day Schleswig-Holstein between 250 and 500.
Apart
from Dresden and perhaps Leipzig international tourism is
not well developed in Saxony, but some regions and cities are national,
and potentially international touristic targets. Some attractive regions
are the ones shared with Czech Republic,
including the Lusatian Mountains, Ore Mountains, Saxon Switzerland, and
Vogtland. In Germany Saxony offers an above-average number of very well
preserved historic little towns, for example Meißen, Freiberg, Pirna, Bautzen, Görlitz
and others; thus tourism from within Germany is important for Saxony.
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