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Potsdam Tour from Berlin With Guided Sanssouci Palace Visit

Duration: 4 hours
Destination: Germany, Berlin, Berlin
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  • 4 hours
  • Berlin
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  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Enjoy a guided excursion to Potsdam, famous for its magnificent palaces and parks. See Sanssouci Palace, the summer residence of Frederick the Great. An audio tour of Sanssouci Palace is included in the price. During the sightseeing tour, enjoy the Dutch Quarter and not to forget the Russian Colony Alexandrowka. During the summer months, you will also have the opportunity to take a short walk through Sanssouci Park. After returning to Berlin, the tour ends back at Kurfürstendamm.
Duration of the excursion: 4 hours

Itinerary
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Stop At: Sanssouci Palace, Maulbeerallee, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

Sanssouci was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, located nearby Berlin. Sanssouci is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park. The palace was designed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court.

Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: Glienicke Bridge, Konigstrasse, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

The Glienicke Bridge is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907, although major reconstruction was necessary after it was damaged during World War II.

During the Cold War, as this portion of the Havel River formed the border between West Berlin and East Germany, the bridge was used several times for the exchange of captured spies and thus became known as the Bridge of Spies.

Pass By: Hollandisches Viertel, Hollaendisches Viertel 1, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

The Dutch Quarter/Holländisches Viertel is in Potsdam, a neighborhood, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated. It was built from 1733 to 1740 and designed by Jan Bouman following the order of Frederick William I of Prussia.

Pass By: Alexandrowka 2, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

The Russian colony Alexandrovka is located in the north of Potsdam. King Frederick William III of Prussia had it built in 1826/27 for the last twelve Russian singers of a former choir of 62 soldiers.

Due to the family and friendly relations between the Hohenzollern and Romanov houses, the colony was named a memorial to Tsar Alexander I, who died in 1825. As part of Potsdam's cultural landscape, the colony is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Pass By: Schloss Cecilienhof, Im Neuen Garten 11, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire until the end of World War I. Wellknown for having been the location of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, in which the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States made important decisions affecting the shape of post World War II Europe and Asia. Cecilienhof is also UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.

Pass By: Old Market Square, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

The Old Market Square is a centrally located square in downtown Potsdam which forms the historical center of the city. The square consists of the area around St. Nicholas' Church.

Pass By: Ruinenberg, Maulbeerallee, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

The Ruinenberg is a hill in the Bornstedt borough of Potsdam, located north of Sanssouci Park. In 1748, the Prussian King, Frederick the Great, had a water tank with a capacity of around 7,600 cubic metres built on top to supply the Sanssouci water features, and had it decorated with artificial ruins. From 1841 a surrounding landscape garden was laid out at the behest of King Frederick William IV of Prussia, according to plans designed by Peter Joseph Lenné.

Pass By: St. Nikolai-Kirchengemeinde, Am Alter Markt, 14467 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany

St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam is a Lutheran Church located on the Old Market Square in Potsdam. The central plan building in the Classicist style and dedicated to Saint Nicholas was built to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1830 and 1837. The tambour of the 77-metre-high church that towers above the roofs of the city was built between 1843 and 1850. Its construction has been made by Ludwig Persius and from 1845, Friedrich August Stüler.

Towards the end of the Second World War, the church was hit during the British air raid on Potsdam and subsequently badly damaged by Soviet artillery fire. After many years of rebuilding the church was re-consecrated in 1981 by the Evangelical Parish of St. Nicholas, Potsdam, and, today, is open to visitors. In addition to the normal church services, concert events are also held in the church.

Inclusions
  • Local guide
  • Guaranteed to skip the long lines
  • Guaranteed to skip the lines
  • Entry/Admission - Sanssouci Palace

Exclusions
  • Food and drinks
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • A maximum of five people per booking
  • Start/end of tour: Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 216
  • Stroller accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
  • Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Departure Point

Kurfürstendamm 216, 10719 Berlin, Germany


Departure Time

10:00 AM


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

4 hours


User's Reviews

Kenneth_W

25 Feb, 2024

Great tour! Sans Souci is a beautiful palace and worth visiting. It’s also nice the tour guide shows us around Potsdam on the bus and gives a lot of information about history.

Roam07116083043

06 Jan, 2024

The Sanssouci Palace really beautiful, a lot of history, the guide really nice, comfortable bus, the bus was right on time, tour right to the point

Martin_P

30 Dec, 2023

Great tour. Our tour guide Sue was very knowledgeable and engaging. Very interesting to see an entirely different part of Germany. Would definitely recommend.

Maureen_C

27 Dec, 2023

The guides story telling and knowledge of history were impressive, informative, and entertaining! What a great trip even in the winter! Wish they had more Christmas theme happening at the palace. I love Christmas 💞

tigwallace12

10 Dec, 2023

Easy and interesting trip which made visiting wonderful Potsdam very simple. Great extras like the Bridge of Spies and the trip round town. Yasmin was a great guide and it was all very efficient

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Great, short, inexpensive tour

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Beautiful and not an all day long tour

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Worthwhile and fun!

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Absolutely recommend

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Time saving, convenient, cumfortable and instructive

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Postdam

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An afternoon in Potsdam. Unforgettable

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Great day out...eye opener to so much more

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Lovely town but not the best palace

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Too much time spent on the bus

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Der erste Blick der Stadt Potsdam und hoffen auf eine Wiederkehr

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À ne pas manquer !

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Auf nach Potsdam, - die Stadt im Wandel und mit viel Geschichte

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