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Dresden

Germany · 12 quests

History

2 quests
Frauenkirche, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Frauenkirche
Blackened stones mark a church rebuilt from ruins
Yenidze, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Yenidze
Why does a cigarette factory have a mosque-like dome?

Nature

2 quests
Grand Garden, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Grand Garden
A Baroque palace marks the center of the park
Dresdner Heide Reservoir, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Dresdner Heide Reservoir
A reservoir lies inside a city-edge forest

Art

2 quests
Kunsthofpassage, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Kunsthofpassage
Rain turns its pipes into music
Zwinger, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Zwinger
Its courtyard was made for court festivals

Food

3 quests
Potato Soup, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Potato Soup
The sausage comes hidden in the soup
Soljanka, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Soljanka
Its sour taste comes from pickles and lemon
Sauerbraten, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Sauerbraten
Raisins sweeten this sour roast

Sport

1 quest
Rudolf Harbig Stadion, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Rudolf Harbig Stadion
Its name belongs to a record-setting runner

Party

2 quests
Altes Wettbüro, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Altes Wettbüro
Its old job survives only in the name
Citybeach, Dresden🇩🇪 Dresden
Citybeach
Why is there a beach in the city?

Germany

Photo quests in Dresden

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Dresden holds twelve quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in Dresden so far is Beach.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other ten are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Dresden quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Dresden the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Dresden

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Dresden

How many photo quests are there in Dresden?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Frauenkirche, Grand Garden and Kunsthofpassage.
What is there to do in Dresden beyond the obvious?
2 of the 12 quests in Dresden are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Dresden holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Citybeach and Yenidze, which fall under History and Party.
Can you do all the Dresden quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 12 is 9.5 km from the middle of the Dresden list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Dresden quests can you do for free?
10 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Dresden means two quests: Citybeach and Yenidze.
How do I prove I visited a place in Dresden?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Dresden is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Frauenkirche fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Dresden sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.