Meissen Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: "Meißen", ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche. The "Große Kreisstadt" is the capital of the Meissen district. Meissen is sometimes known as the "cradle of Saxony". The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of "Misni" inhabited by the Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.
Porcelain Museum (Florence) European producers. Among the manufacturers of origin on display are: the Royal Factory of Naples (Capodimonte); the Tuscan Carlo Ginori at Sesto Fiorentino; French manufacturers Sèvres and Vincennes in Paris; Viennese porcelain, largely collected by Ferdinand III of Tuscany; the German porcelain factory of Meissen. The museum is among the hundred most visited art museums in the world. Porcelain Museum (Florence) The Porcelain Museum (Italian: "Museo delle porcellane") is located in the "Casino del Cavaliere", one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. The museum, housed in the Villino del Cavaliere high