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This article is about the landscape. For the district with the same name, see Sächsische Schweiz

Saxon Switzerland is an alpine rather low oversea climbing area and national park very near the cultural and technological center of Dresden in the state of Saxony, Germany. It continues as Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic where it meets the Giant Mountains.

Saxon Switzerland alone has some one thousand peaks that have never been climbed, even though the area is rather popular not only among Dresden climbers but internationally. There are also several hollows and lakes.

see also

Sächsische Schweiz (about the administrative district) and Koenigstein (a fortress)