Palaces and parks at a glance

Built in the style of the High Renaissance and commissioned by King Frederick William IV, the Orangery palace was conceived as...

In the southwest of Sanssouci Palace lies Charlottenhof, a small neo-classical palace, forming the architectural centre of a...

The romantic Italian-style building ensemble emerged from the collaboration of the architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Ludwig...

Ordered by King Frederick II, the first construction of a museum in Germany was completed in the mid-18th century, relying on...

Situated on a hill and overlooked from the north side of Sanssouci Palace, the Ruinenberg Hill served King Frederick II and later...

Churchill, Truman, Stalin: the three of them wrote world history here and discussed how to partition Germany. From 17th  June...

The Flatow Tower of Babelsberg Park was built between 1853 and 1856 according to plans by the German architect Johann Heinrich...

The New Garden is located between the Heilige See (holy lake), the Jungfernsee (lake of the virgins) and Pfingstberg ...

The luxuriant Chinese Tea House in the Rehgarten of Sanssouci Park impressively illustrates the Chinese Fashion that starkly...

Because of the beautiful view, Frederick William IV had "Belvedere on the Pfingstberg" built around 1850 according to his own...