The Prussian Windsor
The royal residency of the kings grew over a thousand years on riverbanks and lakesides. Dozens of palaces, churches and parks turn the landscape into a paradise- like arrangement: The prussian arcadia, thats what they called it. These three tours cover a lot of ground, one more general, the other two in greater detail.
An Introduction To Potsdam ( 5h)
This tour needs a good pair of shoes and a sharp eye, so much there is to see. We’re travelling back and forth in time, as usual, from royal hunting grounds to cold war spy exchanges, from the joyful to the awful and back.
Old Market- Bridge of spies- Royal port station- Schloß Cecilienhof/ Potsdam Conference- New garden- Dutch quarter- Brandenburg gate- Peace church- Sanssouci palace
Sanssouci Palace Garden (3 h)
The largest playgound for the kings and queens and crownprincesses, this garden is a dream. Each and every one of the royal family needed to leave their footprint there, mostly in form of a cottage or a palace.
New palace- Palace Charlottenhof- Roman bath- Belvedere Orangerieschloß- Sicilian garden- Teahouse- new chambers- Neptungrotte- Picture gallery- Sanssouci Palace
From Bridge Of Spies To Marble Palace (3h)
This walk is about the lesser known Garden, the new Garden. Sited between a river and a lake, you ll dive into the joyful architecture of the late 18th century as well as th palace used for the Potsdam conference and the bridge of spies.
Glienicker Brücke/ Bridge Of Spies- Royal port- Peacock Island view- Grünes Haus- Cecilienhof Palace- Marble Palace - Orangerie- Dutch houses- Gothic library