6 Hrs
Tour Details:
Adult Cost: EUR 17
Child Cost: EUR 15 (for Students)
Potsdam Tour
Leaving at 11:00 from the Brandenburg gate, the tour makes
its way westwards 24 kilometres to the capital of Brandenburg itself; Potsdam.
The home of Prussian Kings and the German Kaiser until the end of the First
World War in 1918, its planning takes its inspiration from the enlightenment
period in which it flourished under Frederick the Great: with buildings such as
the Sanssouci palace, his summer residence and the most important work of
Northern German rococo. Indeed his architectural works have become so
historically important that they have given rise to the term "Frederician
Rococo".
Frederick was equally responsible for two more of the most
important buildings you can see on this tour: The New Palace, completed in 1769
and considered to be the last great Prussian Baroque palace, and the
reconstructed Potsdam City Palace. This is, in fact, the second reconstruction
of the palace, having been reconstructed by Frederick the Great in the 18th
century it was damaged during the Second World War and demolished in 1960 for
ideological reasons, before being recently re-reconstructed using original
components.
You will equally see the
Neuer Garten, Dutch Quarter, Potsdam's Brandenburg Gate, The Church of Peace,
and the famous Glienicke Bridge, known in popular culture as "The Bridge
of Spies". All this comes led by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide
who put the sights into the context of four great kings and two World Wars.
Tour Details:
Adult Cost: EUR 17
Child Cost: EUR 15 (for Students)
Potsdam Tour
Leaving at 11:00 from the Brandenburg gate, the tour makes
its way westwards 24 kilometres to the capital of Brandenburg itself; Potsdam.
The home of Prussian Kings and the German Kaiser until the end of the First
World War in 1918, its planning takes its inspiration from the enlightenment
period in which it flourished under Frederick the Great: with buildings such as
the Sanssouci palace, his summer residence and the most important work of
Northern German rococo. Indeed his architectural works have become so
historically important that they have given rise to the term "Frederician
Rococo".
Frederick was equally responsible for two more of the most
important buildings you can see on this tour: The New Palace, completed in 1769
and considered to be the last great Prussian Baroque palace, and the
reconstructed Potsdam City Palace. This is, in fact, the second reconstruction
of the palace, having been reconstructed by Frederick the Great in the 18th
century it was damaged during the Second World War and demolished in 1960 for
ideological reasons, before being recently re-reconstructed using original
components.
You will equally see the
Neuer Garten, Dutch Quarter, Potsdam's Brandenburg Gate, The Church of Peace,
and the famous Glienicke Bridge, known in popular culture as "The Bridge
of Spies". All this comes led by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide
who put the sights into the context of four great kings and two World Wars.
Tour Exclusions
