A diverse low mountain range landscape reaching up to 800 m in the southeast corner of Saxony, at the triangle between the countries of Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland. Villages with houses built in the Upper Lusatian style, an old method that combines German timber-framing and Slavic log cabins.

Lusatia (die Lausitz) was settled by the Sorb ethnic minority, descendants of the former Elbe Slavs, who continue to cultivate their folk customs and have maintained their own language to this day.