Potsdam Highlights Audio Guide and Self Guided Tour

Potsdam Highlights: Discover all of Potsdam in one easy walk! With just your smartphone and headphones, you'll stroll from the rococo splendour of Sanssouci Palace and its terraced gardens to the charming Dutch Quarter and the grand Brandenburg Gate – while an immersive audio guide with a high-quality voice reveals the story behind each stop. Surprising fun facts and historical photos bring the city to life, turning a simple walk into an unforgettable journey through the royal city of the Prussian kings. How It Works No human person for guiding (tourguide), this is self-guided audio tour. You use your own smartphone to navigate and listen. No app download is required—just click the access link in your ticket to begin instantly. This route explores the free public sights, so no entrance tickets are needed or included.

1. 1

   Neues Palais

   10 min

   Frederick the Great's colossal New Palace faces two matching baroque palaces built for his kitchens and servants, the Communs. Since 1991 they have housed the University of Potsdam, so students now take lectures in a king's service wing.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   10 min

   Frederick the Great's colossal New Palace faces two matching baroque palaces built for his kitchens and servants, the Communs. Since 1991 they have housed the University of Potsdam, so students now take lectures in a king's service wing.

3. 3

   Freundschaftstempel

   10 min

   A small open rotunda of eight Corinthian columns that Frederick the Great raised in memory of his beloved sister Wilhelmine of Bayreuth. Inside sits her marble statue, surrounded by medallions of the great friendships of antiquity.

4. 4

   Chinesisches Haus (Chinese House)

   10 min

   A gilded rococo tea pavilion in the shape of a clover leaf, ringed by life sized golden figures sipping tea and making music. Frederick the Great's dream of China, built by people who had never been there.

5. 5

   Sanssouci Palace

   10 min

   Frederick the Great's carefree summer palace, a butter yellow Rococo jewel perched atop six curving vineyard terraces. Often called the Prussian answer to Versailles, it was built not for power, but for peace and quiet.

6. 6

   Brandenburger Tor

   10 min

   Potsdam's own triumphal arch, raised by Frederick the Great to crown his victory in the Seven Years' War. Two rival architects gave it two utterly different faces, and it predates its far more famous Berlin cousin by roughly twenty years.

7. 7

   Nauen Gate

   10 min

   A fairy tale city gate crowned by two round battlemented towers, guarding the northern edge of Potsdam's old town. It is the earliest example of English Gothic Revival architecture anywhere on the European continent.

8. 8

   Dutch Quarter

   10 min

   A picture-perfect enclave of red-brick, gabled houses that feels like a slice of Amsterdam transplanted into Brandenburg. It is the largest ensemble of Dutch-style architecture anywhere outside the Netherlands.

9. 9

   Stop 9

   10 min

   A monumental green dome crowning the Alter Markt, this is Potsdam's grandest Protestant church and a masterpiece of German Classicism. Its silhouette defines the city skyline for miles around.

10. 10

    Museum Barberini

    10 min

    Behind its stately baroque facade, this faithfully reconstructed palace on the Alter Markt hides one of Europe's finest collections of Impressionist art, with more paintings by Monet than anywhere outside Paris.

11. 11

    Altes Rathaus

    10 min

    A golden Atlas balances the world atop this Palladian palace of a town hall, the crown jewel of Potsdam's Alter Markt.

12. 12

    Schloss Cecilienhof

    10 min

    A rambling English-style Tudor manor set among the lakes of the New Garden, and the room where the Big Three carved up the postwar world in 1945.

13. 13

    Glienicke Bridge

    10 min

    The steel bridge where East and West traded captured spies in the dead of night. Its green truss still carries the memory of a divided world.

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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