Historic Highlights of Germany: UNESCO

Potsdam

Sanssouci Palace
Sanssouci Palace is the most popular of Potsdam’s palaces, a charming rococo masterpiece set atop a hill overlooking the Havel landscape.
Park Sanssouci
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...
New Palace
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.

Basilica
The Basilica, Constantine's throne room, is the largest surviving single-room structure from Roman times.
Barbara Baths
The Barbara Baths were built in the 2nd century as what was then the largest Roman baths.
Cathedral
In the heart of the city, the present Cathedral stands on top of a former Constantinian Palace, later the largest Christian church in Antiquity.
Imperial Baths
Over 1600 years ago, the Romans built one of the grandest and most impressive baths in the world: the Imperial Baths.

Residence
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.