Potsdam Tour from Berlin With Guided Sanssouci Palace Visit

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Itinerary

1. Sanssouci was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, located nearby Berlin. Sanssouci is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park. The palace was designed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court.

   2 hAdmission included

2. The Glienicke Bridge is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907, although major reconstruction was necessary after it was damaged during World War II. During the Cold War, as this portion of the Havel River formed the border between West Berlin and East Germany, the bridge was used several times for the exchange of captured spies and thus became known as the Bridge of Spies.

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3. The Dutch Quarter/Holländisches Viertel is in Potsdam, a neighborhood, consisting of 134 red Dutch brick buildings, almost all of which have been renovated. It was built from 1733 to 1740 and designed by Jan Bouman following the order of Frederick William I of Prussia.

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4. The Russian colony Alexandrovka is located in the north of Potsdam. King Frederick William III of Prussia had it built in 1826/27 for the last twelve Russian singers of a former choir of 62 soldiers. Due to the family and friendly relations between the Hohenzollern and Romanov houses, the colony was named a memorial to Tsar Alexander I, who died in 1825. As part of Potsdam's cultural landscape, the colony is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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5. The Old Market Square is a centrally located square in downtown Potsdam which forms the historical center of the city. The square consists of the area around St. Nicholas' Church.

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6. St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam is a Lutheran Church located on the Old Market Square in Potsdam. The central plan building in the Classicist style and dedicated to Saint Nicholas was built to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel between 1830 and 1837. The tambour of the 77-metre-high church that towers above the roofs of the city was built between 1843 and 1850. Its construction has been made by Ludwig Persius and from 1845, Friedrich August Stüler. Towards the end of the Second World War, the church was hit during the British air raid on Potsdam and subsequently badly damaged by Soviet artillery fire. After many years of rebuilding the church was re-consecrated in 1981 by the Evangelical Parish of St. Nicholas, Potsdam, and, today, is open to visitors. In addition to the normal church services, concert events are also held in the church.

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Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 430 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Jasmine was great! Loved...

  Jasmine was great! Loved Potsdam. Very informative. Want to go back and explore more of it. Highly recommend this tour for a taste!

  Lisa_DSeptember 2026via Viator

• 5Good day at Sanssouci

  Guide Jasmine was very informative. Tge entire group spoke English so it was easy in one language. Jasmine's English was very good so easy to understand. The time spend at tge palace was just enough. Any shorter and we would have missed info. The tour did move at a healthy pace. I enjoyed the tour and especially like how different Potsdam was to Berlin. Would recommend this tour.

  tracy_BSeptember 2026via Viator

• 2The tour of Potsdam seen mainly through a bus window.

  I would not recommend this trip to Potsdam. Nice bus, guide was prompt. This tour did include one stop after a 45 drive to Potsdam. Then back on the bus and a 45 min drive back to Berlin. You do not actually stop at any of the sights (other than the one Sanssouci Palace). You simply drive buy and attempt to get a glimpse of somehting through the trees. The Sanssouci stop was very good but this is what is needed at more than one place. Disappointing and burned nearly the entire day as getting to/from the bus meeting point was another ordeal. If we could have stopped at all or some of the sites listed in the itinerary it would have been a nice tour.

  John_TSeptember 2026via Viator

• 5Great tour

  Excellent tour with a very good guide giving historical context and interesting stories. Great Value

  Irene_DAugust 2026via Viator

• 5Enjoyable Tour

  Easy to find meet up spot and drive to Potsdam was smooth. Enjoyed learning about the history and had our questions answered. Would recommend to others interested in this

  Jocelyn_TAugust 2026via Viator

• 3Nice tour

  The tour guide seemed nice and she was very knowledgeable. The bus ride was comfy. The only thing that rubbed me the wrong way- we had about 35 mins free time. We were meeting back at 2:40. I joined the group at 2:39 and said I was thinking we were meeting at 2:45. What she should’ve said was - “no worries- you’re here on time”. Instead, she went into this thing about others think it’s 245 and I don’t know how that happens but I said it very clearly at the beginning blah blah blah. That’s all why are you even saying this I was on time. I just made a statement. Anyway bottom line is this is an interesting tour and you should probably take it. But after that, I decided a tip was out of the question. I know that’s kind of a wimpy, but you gotta be cool.

  David_BAugust 2026via Viator

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How it compares in Berlin

• Its from-price is 173% above the median of the 24 attraction tickets we list in Berlin.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 2 of 24.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

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