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“The bastion is most beautiful but you have to get up there first!” (Adrian Zingg)

Saxon Switzerland is one of the hiking areas provided with the best signposts; it is therefore almost impossible to lose the way. When people became interested in the beauties of nature in the second half of the 18th century and the first ramblers started to wander around they still had to rely on their own ability to find their way – unless they hired a tour guide. These guides were afraid to lose their income when in 1830 the first stone signposts were erected along the so-called “Fremdenweg” (foreigners’ path). Those visitors who wanted to enjoy nature without exhausting themselves hired sedan chair carriers or mounts.