City tour Potsdam
Duration: 6 hrs with 5 stops/walks
Meeting point: hotel / by agreement
Start: between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
End: hotel or downtown
Tour description:
Coming from Berlin our bus stops after 45 minutes at the border between Berlin and Potsdam: at the Glienicke Bridge. The steel structure built in 1907, is better known as the place for exchanging spies (Bridge of Spies) during the Cold War. Then we drive to Cecilienhof Palace, where Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Josef Stalin met from July 17 to August 2, 1945 to redefine the borders in Europe after Germany's military defeat.
Afterwards we will visit the park and palaces area of Sanssouci. Lets have a view from the main fountain to Frederick the Great's pleasure palace and a short walk to the chinese house. Garden design and architecture take us back to the 18th century. Our tour continues with a walk through Potsdam's city center ending at the Dutch Quarter. You will have time to explore Brandenburger Strasse till Brandenburg Gate, have a coffee or a snack, before we return to Berlin.
Stops:
Bridge of Spies
Cecilienhof Palace
Park and Palaces Sanssouci
Dutch Quarter
Suggestion:
If there is time left on the way back to Berlin, a short stop at the House of the Wannsee Conference or the Allied Museum in Zehlendorf is worthwhile.
