Potsdam
:This article is about the German city of Potsdam. There is also Potsdam, New York in the United States of America.
Sights in Potsdam
- Sanssouci Palace, former palace of the Prussian royal and German imperial families
- Orangery Palace, former palace for foreign royal guests
- Neues Palais ("New Palace"), an additional palace in Sanssouci Park, built in 1769
- Charlottenhof, another palace in Sanssouci Park, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1826)
- New Garden with two smaller palaces, one of them Cecilienhof, where the Potsdam Conference was held
- Old Town with the Dutch Quarter (Holländisches Viertel), Brandenburg Gate (1770, not to be confused with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin), St. Nikolai church (1850) and town hall (1753)
- Babelsberg, a quarter east of the centre, housing the UFA film studios
- Einstein Tower, Erich Mendelsohn architect, 1920-24
- Alexandrovka, a small enclave of Russian architecture due to 17th-century Russian immigrants
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