Bastei

The Bastei is a stone development transcending 194 meters over the Elbe River in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains of Germany. Achieving a stature of 305 meters above ocean level, the barbed rocks of the Bastei were framed by water disintegration more than one million years prior. They are arranged close Rathen, not a long way from Pirna southeast of the city of Dresden, and are the significant historic point of the Saxon Switzerland National Park. They are additionally part of a climbing and climbing territory that reaches out finished the outskirts into the Bohemian Switzerland .

The Bastei has been a vacation destination for more than 200 years. In 1824, a wooden scaffold was built to interface a few rocks for the guests. This extension was supplanted in 1851 by the present Bastei Bridge made of sandstone. The stone developments and vistas have roused a few understood craftsmen, among them Caspar David Friedrich .The spa town of Rathen is the primary base for going to the Bastei; the town can be come to from Dresden by paddle steamer on the stream Elbe.