Potsdam

Just outside Berlin, the one-time seat of the Hohenzollern dynasty is stuffed full of gorgeous fairy-tale palaces – but this city is also replete with Cold War history, from the 1945 Potsdam Conference to the ‘Bridge of Spies’ made famous in Spielberg’s 2015 film.

To discover Potsdam together, we can either meet there or travel together by train from Berlin (about thirty minutes).

On our tour, let’s explore:

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the history of the Hohenzollerns, Prussia’s royal family
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Potsdam’s palace gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage site
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the reign of the remarkable Prussian King Friedrich the Great
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the Church of Peace (dismantled and imported from Italy)
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Potsdam’s Russian and Dutch quarters
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Cecilienhof, site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945
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the Glienicke Bridge (or ‘Bridge of Spies’)
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Potsdam’s KGB prison