Architectural wealth

Probably the greatest treasure of the European City of Görlitz/Zgorzelec is its architectural wealth. In Görlitz alone, almost 4,000 architectural monuments from 500 years of European architectural history can be experienced. Most of them have been extensively renovated and include buildings from a wide variety of eras - from Gothic and Renaissance to the Wilhelminian style and Art Nouveau. Professor Gottfried Kiesow, the former president of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, described Görlitz as the most beautiful city in Germany - visit Görlitz and you will undoubtedly agree with him ...