Castles and Gardens of Potsdam and Berlin – Berlin is a city full of contradictions, surprises and superb sights. If you are spending some time in the city, it might be advisable to take a day trip to the Castles and Gardens of Potsdam and Berlin.

The Potsdam-Berlin Havel landscape with its many forests, lakes, and rolling fields was the preferred site for the new residences, gardens and parks of electors, kings and emperors of the Hohenzollern Dynasty for nearly three hundred years. A visit to this breathtaking place will show to any visitor why it has been a place close to Berlin’s heart for hundreds of years.

This walk-in landscape painting, with its intricately composed Baroque, Romantic and Classic elements was contributed to by many artists, architects and horticultural architects. These included not only Lennè, but also Knobelsdorff and Schinkel to name just the most famous.

This eye-catching and diverse area consists of the castle, the Leisure Garden and the Park Klein-Glienicke. It also consists of the Jagdschloss (the royal hunting lodge) and Jagdschlosspark in Klein-Glienicke, the Böttcherberg with Loggia Alexandra, Nikolskoe, and the village Klein-Glienicke and Pfaueninsel.

 

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