The rock formations seem straight out of a fantasy film, with some looking like giant mushrooms and others resembling turtles. Then there's the twisted Doggen tower and the Janus head, all part of the ...

Saxon Switzerland is a region with a bizarre and intriguing landscape. It lies one hour south east of Dresden and got its name from the fact that its huge, smooth rocks and deep, narrow valleys and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The fog arrived in the village of Schmilka early on a Monday morning. It began as a film of mist moving along ...

The sandstone towers, some hundreds of metres high, rise amid lush woodland, as relics from an ancient age. The geologists would tell you this rockscape originated as sea floor when the dinosaurs ...

The rock formations seem straight out of a fantasy film, with some looking like giant mushrooms and others resembling turtles. Then there’s the twisted Doggen tower and the Janus head, all part of the ...

It’s a sky-high sale. A scenic “tabletop” mountain in Switzerland is on the market for a rock-bottom price on eBay. The Zirkelstein, the smallest table hill of Saxon Switzerland, a renowned hiking and ...

This is the dramatic moment an avalanche covered an alpine road with ice, rock and snow as it thundered down a mountainside. The avalanche was deliberately triggered by authorities in the Swiss town ...

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. We are ...