Best places to visit in Brandenburg

Brandenburg's Essential Treasures

Brandenburg’s landscape is defined by Prussian history and expansive UNESCO-listed parklands. This collection features architectural landmarks in Potsdam, including the Tudor-style Cecilienhof Palace—site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference—and the neoclassical Nikolaikirche. It highlights the Gothic Revival Babelsberg Palace, the Museum Barberini’s art collections, and the iconic Rakotzbrücke bridge in Kromlau. Spanning from the Cold War legacy of the Glienicke Bridge to serene 18th-century gardens, these sites represent the state's cultural and political evolution.

Brandenburg's Essential Treasures — Map

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Schloss Cecilienhof

An English Tudor-style palace completed in 1917 for the House of Hohenzollern. It is world-renowned for hosting the 1945 Potsdam Conference, where Churchill, Truman, and Stalin negotiated the reorganization of post-war Europe.

Nikola Kupčíková / CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nikolaikirche

St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam is a Lutheran church under the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia of the…

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New Garden

The New Garden in Potsdam is a park of 102.5 hectares located southwest of Berlin, Germany, in northern Potsdam and bordering on the lakes…

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Azalea and Rhododendron Park Kromlau

The Azalea and Rhododendron Park Kromlau is a 200-acre landscaped park in Gablenz, Germany. It was built in the nineteenth century.

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Babelsberg Palace

Babelsberg Palace lies in the eponymous park and quarter of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg, near Berlin.

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Cecilienhof

Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house.

Daniel Naber / Public domain

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Babelsberg Park

Babelsberg Park is a 114 hectare park in the northeast of the city of Potsdam, bordering on the Tiefen See lake on the River Havel.

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Old Market Square, Potsdam

The Old Market Square is a centrally located square in downtown Potsdam which forms the historical centre of the city.

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Glienicke Bridge

Crossing the Havel River, this bridge formed the border between West-Berlin and GDR.

Daniel Naber / CC BY 4.0

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Museum Barberini

The Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam opened in 2017. Its exhibitions range from the so-called Old Masters to contemporary art,…

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