Elbe RiverRathen village squareAruncus dioicusSaxon villageTraditional German half-timbered (Fachwerkhaus) housePurple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)Bastei HotelBastei sandstone columnsView from Bastei: the Elbe Valley, Rathen villageKurort Rathen villageBastei Bridge (Basteibrücke)Lilienstein — a distinctive flat-topped sandstone mesa (415 m)View from Bastei viewpointBuilt under King Friedrich August II of Saxony, 1850–1851Große Gans (“Big Goose”) — a sandstone monolith in the Bastei areaKurort Rathen main pedestrian promenadeTopographic map of Saxon SwitzerlandRathen villageThe Rathen cable ferry (Gierfähre) crossing the ElbeTown park with a fountain in Bad Schandau