A journey well planned...

These are embedded in an unrivalled cultural landscape comprising some 142 square kilometres. But where to start when it comes to exploring the diversity of the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz?

To help you judge the distances between the individual destinations, and the time required, we would like to offer you some guidance for appropriately planning your trip.

Depending on the duration of your stay, we have put together a number of different tour suggestions
The hours in brackets indicate the time you should allow for each of these and include travel time (by car) from the previous leg of your journey.
You may, of course, mix and match or extend these building blocks according to your own wishes.

A day in the Garden Kingdom

Within one day you will only be able to see selected parts of the Garden Kingdom. We do recommend that you visit the gardens at Wörlitz – the artistic culmination of the Garden Kingdom.

• Wörlitz – guided tour through the Schloss, walk through the park with a visit to the Gothic House (4 h)

Or
• Visit of the Schloss with gondola tour through the park (2.5 h)

Optionally in addition:
• Luisium (Dessau-Waldersee) – walk through the gardens with guided tour of the house (2 h)

Or:
• Mosigkau (Dessau-Mosigkau) – walk through the gardens with guided tour of the palace (3 h)

Or:
• Oranienbaum – Visit to the palace and tour of the gardens (2 h)

A weekend in the Garden Kingdom

A weekend will give you the opportunity to see all historic houses and gardens.

Day 1
• Wörlitz – Guided tour of the Schloss, walk through the park with visit to the Gothic House and gondola tour (5 h)

• Luisium (Dessau-Waldersee) – walk through the gardens with guided tour of the house (2 h)

Day 2
• Oranienbaum – visit to the palace with tour of the gardens (2–2.5 h)

• Mosigkau (Dessau-Mosigkau) – walk through the gardens with guided tour of the palace (3 h)