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    The city, which is over 1,000 years old, is widely known for its palaces, its lakes, and its overall historical and cultural significance. Landmarks include the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, Germany's largest World Heritage Site, as well as other palaces such as the Orangery Palace, the New Palace, Cecilienhof Palace, and Charlottenhof Palace.

  3. Dec 1, 2017 · Potsdam is known for its magnificent palaces tranquil lakes and parks. Here's why everyone should visit Brandenburg's capital at least once.

  4. Aug 9, 2017 · Potsdam is an area abundant in gardens, parks, palaces and lakes. It offers a breathtaking panorama of culture and history, and a few surprising fun facts to boot. Here are a few things about this delightful town you may not have known.

    • Sanssouci Palace. Frederick the Great’s summer palace was built between 1745 and 1747 as somewhere he could escape from the strictures of the Berlin court.
    • Sanssouci Park. The palace and its terraced garden are at the centre of an expansive park designed and landscaped in the decades that followed. The size of this project is almost bewildering, as the park encompasses almost 300 hectares and is crisscrossed by alleys framed by hedges trimmed at right angles.
    • Dutch Quarter. During Potsdam’s second expansion between 1733 and 1742 a whole neighbourhood of Dutch-style red brick gabled houses cropped up either side of Mittelstraße.
    • Cecilienhof. The House of Hohenzollern’s final palace was built during the First World War in the style of an English Tudor mansion. Cecilienhof is half-timbered and has decorative turreted chimney stacks.
  5. Prussian pomp and splendour, a heritage of great architects and scholars and a focal point during the Cold War: Potsdam offers breathtaking dimensions of culture and history. 300 years ago, Potsdam was transformed into one of Europe's most splendid royal cities.

  6. Potsdam, city, capital of Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. Lying on the southwest border of Berlin, it is sited where the Nuthe River flows into the Havel River, the confluence becoming a series of lakes.

  7. Potsdam, on the Havel River just 25km southwest of central Berlin, is the capital and crown jewel of the federal state of Brandenburg. Easily reached by S-Bahn, the former Prussian royal seat is the most popular day trip from Berlin, luring visitors with its splendid gardens and palaces, which garnered Unesco World Heritage status in 1990.

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