Potsdam's Royal Palaces and Historic Parks: A Lifetime Visit

Potsdam preserves the architectural grandeur of the Prussian monarchy and significant 20th-century landmarks. This selection includes the UNESCO-listed New Garden and Babelsberg Park, the English Tudor-style Cecilienhof Palace—site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference—and the neoclassical St. Nicholas Church. The list also features the Glienicke Bridge, used for Cold War spy exchanges, and the Museum Barberini, which houses extensive Impressionist and DDR-era art collections within the city's reconstructed historical center.

Schloss Cecilienhof

Public bus stop providing transport access to the Cecilienhof Palace and the northern section of the New Garden.

Nikolaikirche

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

Cecilienhof

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

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…

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.

Babelsberg Palace

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

Old Market Square, Potsdam

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

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,…

Glienicke Bridge

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