The 99-acre ega is often referred to as "the garden of Thuringia" with gardenscapes, greenhouses, butterfly house, horticultural museum and exhibitions.
The famous Heidelberg Castle ruins overlook the Old Town. The construction lasted over 400 years and consists of ramparts, outbuildings and palaces in all styles from Gothic to High Renaissance. The two dominant buildings at the eastern and northern...
The former Prince Bishop’s residence was built from 1767 to 1787 as a three-winged building. Today, the castle forms the main building of the university.
The Park Sanssouci covers 724 acres—compared to Central Park’s 840—and has three palaces: the rococo Sanssouci Palace, the Baroque New Palace and Charlottenhof Palace. In its entirety, Sanssouci presents an ensemble of palaces and gardens that form...
The building complex of the New Palace is the last and most impressive baroque monument of the Prussian kings, built in part as a boastful response to the palace of Versailles of the French kings.
The small Charlottenhof palace and the park area around it is an outstanding example of romantic classicism in Germany, an artistic entity of buildings, gardens and landscape park.
Cecilienhof, built in the New Garden from 1914-1917, was the last royal contribution to Potsdam’s cultural landscape. The 180-room English landhouse-style palace was the setting for the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
The Residence, built from 1720-1744 according to plans of the genius Balthasar Neumann, is the main work of south German Baroque and one of the most important castles in Europe.
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