Name: Potsdam
Start: 2024-04-28T08:00:00+00:00
Location: Insider Tour

Potsdam

Dutch Quarter
Glienicke 'spy swapping' Bridge
Cecilienhof

Not included	Food, drink, gratuities, transport ticket, entry to Sansoucci
Duration	6 Hours
Bring along	ABC All day transportation ticket
Participants	15 maximum
Languages	English
Important information	Important info for ticket: Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before departure time!   The tour is in English. You need an ABC all day ticket to join this tour. Meeting point: outside Friedrichstr. train station, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin. Our guide will be wearing a blue lanyard with a yellow name tag! If you still cannot see us, please call us at the office before the tour starts on +49-30-6923149

Venue

Meeting point: outside Friedrichstr. train station, on the square beside the 'Tränenpalast' (Palace of Tears) . Our guide will be wearing a blue lanyard with a yellow name tag! If you can't see us, please call the office on +49-30-6923149

Meeting point: outside Friedrichstr. train station, on the square beside the 'Tränenpalast' (Palace of Tears)
Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin, Germany

S+U Friedrichstrasse Station

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Insider Tour

10117 - Berlin

(713)

Further information

It is easy to see why the palaces and parks of Potsdam were designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1990. Not only is the city incredibly picturesque, with its many palaces, lakes, manicured gardens, statues and water fountains dotted over hundreds of green acres, but it is brimming with an equally fascinating history.

Stroll around the Dutch Quarter, an ensemble of red-brick buildings that is unique in Europe. The infamous 'Soldier King', Frederick William I, (renowned for the giant men he collected for his showcase military regiments), had the houses built in the middle of the 18th century to accommodate Potsdam's new community of Dutch artisans.

See the stunning Sanssouci Palace, favourite residence of Frederick the Great, which is set in beautiful parkland scattered with temples, churches and follies.

After crossing the Glienicke 'spy swapping' Bridge we visit Cecilienhof, the manorial residence of Germany's last Crown Prince, which was used to host the Potsdam Conference in 1945. We describe the discussions that took place between Churchill, Truman and Stalin, which were to seal the fate of Cold War Europe for the next half century.