Doggone It!

THE impressive-looking crown below is above the main entrance to Dresden's Zwinger palace.

The crown gate of the Zwinger palace

Zwinger translates into English as kennel, and seems a strange choice of name for such a grand building.

It comes from a medieval German term for the part of a fortification's defensive works lying between outer and inner walls.

The name was given to the palace even though by the time building began, in 1709, the area no longer had such walls.