Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it is part of the merger town Dessau-Roßlau.

Castles and Gardens

• Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich with Landscape Garden Groß Kühnau, Oranienbaum, Sieglitzer Berg, Leiner Berg, Wörlitzer Park and numerous Monuments like the Drehberg (recorded in the UNESCO World Heritage)
  
• Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve (sheltered from UNESCO)
  
• Zoo at Mausoleumspark
  
• Wallwitzburg
  
• Rondell
  
• remains of the City Castle (Johannbau)
  
• Georgium Palace and Park
  
• Kühnau Palace and Park
  
• Mosigkau Palace and Park
  
• Luisium Palace and Park
  
  

The Bauhaus
There are several examples of Bauhaus architecture in Dessau, some of them included in the UNESCO World Heritage. The Bauhaus College itself was constructed after drafts by Walter Gropius.

• Bauhaus Dessau Museum, with audiovisual guidances
  
• Masters' Houses
  
• Feininger House (Kurt Weill Centre)
  
• Muche-Schlemmer House
  
• Klee-Kandinsky House
  
• Gropius House (destroyed) today used for ticket sales, as a café and as a book-shop
  
• Dessau-Törten Estate with Co.-op Building and House of Steel, Laubenganghouses and House Fieger
  
• Grain House, constructed by Carl Fieger in 1930, today used as a restaurant
  
• Employment Office 
   
  Churches
  
• St. Mary's Church
  
• St. John's Church
  
• Georgenkirche
  
• Petruskirche
  
• Auferstehungskirche
  
• Pauluskirche
  
• Christuskirche
  
• Propsteikirche St. Peter and Paul
  
• Dreieinigkeit
  
• St. Josef 

Other Sights

• Townhall, built in 1901
  
• The Palaces of Waldersee and Dietrich, today they are used as libraries
  
• General Post Office
  
• New Water Tower
  
• Umweltbundesamt (formerly Wörlitzer Bahnhof)
  
• Footbridge crossing the river Mulde